This is a blog I wrote when I rode a bicycle across the country… I am moving it here from cycling4acause.org to preserve it in a single location! Enjoy! xxop that dog followed us for 34 miles in the desert heat barstow the dog! November 05, 2008 Emerging from the desert, a very special team [...]
wow November 04, 2008 To accompany such worldly novelties of this trip, like the world’s largest ball of sesal twine, the team payed homage to the world’s largest thermometer which sits on the site of the hottest place on Earth, Baker California. Good Fortune kept the heat to a more temperate degree, but with it [...]
Scott Hunthausen November 03, 2008 In the footsteps of so many that came west in hopes of bettering the human condition, the team traced history on the old highway responsible for how the west was won. Though the windy and dilapidated road seemed endless, the guys enjoyed the thoroughfare nonetheless.
california… we earned it. Interstate riding can do one of two things: cut off tons of miles or get you a ticket… this time it was the latter. November 01, 2008 After spending late October in the harsh desert lands of southern Utah and the high backbone of the continental divide, the team was ecstatic [...]
we picked up a couple friends in vegas pete eich in north las vegas walking through old town October 31, 2008 It poignantly just so happened that the team would wind up in Vegas on the dawn of all Hallow’s Eve. After a series of unexpected 9500 foot passes in western Utah (6 to be [...]
virginia to nevada… so close. October 30, 2008 One state from home! The team crossed into the Silver State this evening with a fantastic sunset to welcome them. Nevada is extremely distinguishable from any road that you may enter her in. For vast expanse of desolate desert becomes vast expanse of sweaty buffet advertisements and [...]