The majority of the ride out of Chicago was on bike paths with beautiful trees & an abundance of shade. Our first day in Wisconsin ended in a thunderstorm. As the last group of riders rode in, the storm unleashed & the electricity in our host’s homes was knocked out. Despite the setback, our hosts […]
The route from Champaign to our hosts into Chicago was set to be 160 miles. The team was ambitious in the morning with hopes of doing at more than 100 of those miles, but things don’t always work out as planned. After dealing with heate ended up riding 80 miles & having to drive through […]
The century (another name for a 100+ mile ride) from Springfield to Champaign went more smoothly than yesterday’s ride. Although there was some gravel, it didn’t wreak too much havoc. We got in to Champaign around 5:30 pm & were each given our own dorm room in the St. John’s Newman Center on the campus […]
Today was the first of three days in a row that the team will ride around 100 miles. We took off from St. Louis a little later than usual & rode the 110 miles into Springfield to Knight’s Action Park. The team encountered a slew of gravel roads & had a rough time. By the […]
Our ride into St. Louis from Mount Vernon was 95 miles. It was a smooth ride for everyone & we arrived at our host at around 3:00 pm. Many of us thought that it was one of our coolest rides because we got to go all the way in to the city with a beautiful […]
Day 19: Denver to Estes Park, CO, 107 miles Today’s ride was our longest yet. It almost felt like two different days. The first 70 miles of our ride were on the beautiful and winding bike trails that connect Denver to Boulder. Next, we began the long climb into Estes Park. We gained 4,000 feet […]
Day 15: La Junta, CO -> Pueblo, CO 68 miles Today’s ride was windy and stormy but it was the first time we saw mountains. When the storm clouds began to part to show pointed shapes that seemed both natural and incredibly majestic, we knew we were in Colorado. We stayed in a community pavilion […]
We’re in Illinois for one night before we head over to Missouri & though we will be back, we are sure glad we got to pop in to Mt Vernon. 60 miles out on our 114-mile ride from Paducah to Mt Vernon, we ran into a nasty thunderstorm. The radar didn’t show the weather clearing […]
The 80 miles from Madisonville to Paducah flew by. Most of the day was overcast, but there was no rain & the elevation was kind to us. Our final night in Kentucky was spent with Paducah’s Lower Town Neighborhood Association headed by Patience & Bill Renzulli. We were greeted by the Wow Wagon, Paducah Bank’s […]
On June 1st, my teammates and I began our 70-day bike ride from Texas to Alaska. I can confidently say that the past three weeks have been the most challenging and inspiring days of my life. Our send-off was on the UT-Austin campus, where we presented our first two checks to Dell Medical School and […]
