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71-year-old Preston Edelstein biked across the U.S., fulfilling a childhood dream.

Despite setbacks, Edelstein persevered, fueled by kindness from strangers he met along the way.

He completed his cross-country trek, dipping his bike tires in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

On a misty May morning, 71-year-old Preston Edelstein rolled his bike to the edge of California’s Pacific Ocean, and with a grin, dipped his rear tire into the cool, foamy water — marking the start of a 3,438-mile cross-country journey to plunge his front tire into the Atlantic once he reached Savannah, Georgia.

Just a day earlier, on May 14, he’d made the flight from his home in Melbourne, Florida, to San Francisco, to begin his epic quest of bicycling through 10 states, including Californ

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