Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse co-founder and chairman, said the plane should be ready for the cross-country journey on May 1, depending on the weather.

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After he blows out the candles on his cake, he'll climb aboard his tour bus to begin a cross-country journey from Northern California to Nashville, where he'll headline a show Wednesday at the Ryman Auditorium.

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Douglas, a poker-playing pal of Roosevelt's with a strong independent streak, fed sheep to earn money during a cross-country train journey from his native Washington state to Columbia Law School.

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W. Bush in College Station, Texas, five bronze horses stampede across a replica in bronze of the Berlin Wall, while inside a Studebaker from an early cross-country campaign mythologizes the long journey of Bush Sr.

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The film chronicles the journey of a woman as she follows a cross-country scavenger hunt set out by her lover.

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