Kutztown is a university hub about the size of Cambridge with affordable accommodation and an international series of professional races at the nearby velodrome from June to August.
Mitchell welcomes the spartan contrast to their lives.
"The last time we went was before the Delhi Games in 2010. It's surreal mixing it with horses and carts on $10,000 road bikes. At times, it felt like you were riding in a scene from an old movie.
"We go to all sorts of local markets. That's how a number of people earn incomes. Most of us have developed a love of the local root beer, which is what they seem to drink instead of traditional soft drinks. They make it in flagons or sell it by the cup and, being America, they're massive cups. There are also often boars on spits and everything is super cheap.
"A significant reason for going is the temperature. In 2010, it got up to 44 degrees. Glasgow will not be overly hot but, if you train in a hot environment beforehand, you can come out the other side well. We'll be based there almost a month."
Webster loves the environment because it has few distractions, although they did befriend a family with a swimming pool last time and he has spied the occasional mobile phone. The Kiwis will live where all facilities are accessible by bike.
"The plan is to never have to jump in a pick-up truck," Webster says. "Often you find yourself out riding behind a horse-drawn cart and weighing up whether to get drafted along by sitting behind it, or to pedal past. Last time, we joked about what would happen if someone got a puncture and whether any of us would be cheeky enough to get a lift back into town.
"We'll limit our access to the outside world because it's a time of work, to put in the hard yards and build a big fitness base before the final phase of our preparation on the [velodrome] boards in Bordeaux.
"Most of our [US] work is done at a velodrome in the nearby town of Trexler where a 333m [as opposed to the usual 250m] concrete velodrome has more resistance and enables us to do power work."
The duo form part of a talented sprint group which emerged before the last Commonwealth Games. The perception is they have usurped our track endurance riders as the best Glasgow medal hopes, with double Olympic bronze medal pursuiters Jesse Sergent and Sam Bewley now concentrating solely on the road.
Webster, 22, Mitchell, 23, and Dawkins, 24, have formed a team sprint combination which has progressed from world championships bronze (2012) to silver (2013) to gold (2014) — the first time any New Zealand riding 'team' has triumphed at a pinnacle UCI event. They came fifth at the Olympics when the selectors were forced to pick van Velthooven instead of Webster because of a restriction to squad numbers. Van Velthooven was perceived as a better medal hope in the keirin and repaid the favour with bronze — he also took bronze in the kilo time trial at this year's world champs.
