As of Monday night, I know the route that I will be biking from Austin to Alaska on. And as of Monday, everything that I am about to do is starting to feel very real. Just last week I picked up my bike and first batch of gear. Driving back from Bicycle World with my […]

I’m not very athletic. I never really have been. I ran cross country for a little bit during my middle school years, but I really hated it. So, when I told my parents about Texas4000, they told me that I was insane. Anyone who knew me made fun of me for weeks, asking how I […]

I don’t feel creative with my words at all today, or for a while if I were to be completely honest. But, when my words can’t sound special I make. Make things with my hands, images in my mind, make use of my body with exercise, etc. As some of you may know I’ll be […]

This might go without saying, but biking from Austin to Alaska is a scary endeavor. One year ago, I was submitting my Texas 4000 application, afraid of whether not I would be accepted for the 2017 ride team. Two weeks later, I cried and hugged my friend (and 2015 rider) when she told me I […]

Friday was the first day of ACL and I’m feeling particularly nostalgic. ACL has meant a lot to me during my college years. When I went for the first time as a freshman, I had no expectations and everything went without a hitch. I remember my mouth hurting from smiling too wide for too long. […]

At the end of August, Texas 4000 held its annual Tribute Gala. The event brought together hundreds of folks from T4K alumni and their families and friends to community leaders, philanthropists, and local business proprietors. I had the opportunity to volunteer at the event. My job for most of the night was to assist the Gala attendees, […]

This journey, through its extremity and its variety will test me. That much is sure. Between my fundraising goals and the looming task of biking to Anchorage, I will be be challenged in ways that are uncomfortable and unfamiliar. Unfolding alongside my long road to Alaska and our long road as a species towards eliminating […]

As of this fall, I am back in residence at the University of Texas at Austin. My spring semester was spent on exchange at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It was a whirlwind adventure in the land down under. I took selfies with wallabies, learned about the oldest culture on the planet, snorkeled the […]

I am incredibly excited for this journey. So far I’m working hard on my fundraising, my volunteering, my fitness, and spreading the mission. I cannot wait for what the future holds and what Texas 4000 enables me to accomplish. But those are lot of I’s and my’s. Our mission of spreading cancer awareness and fighting […]

It’s been almost a year since I got the call from Baylor Morrison, one of my best friends and  Texas 4000 alumni, telling me I had received a spot on the Texas 4000 2017 team. The tears of excitement and shock instantly started to roll. In that instant I knew that my life was about […]