Day 9: Hydraulic Jacks Today we rode from a community of probably 1000 people to another community of probably 10,000 people. From Watonga, OK to Elk City, OK, we increased our surrounding population by an order of magnitude. Today I drove our support and gear (SAG) trailer and waved to the cows cheering for us […]
Day 10: There’s Never Enough Time to Do All the Nothing You Want Calvin, from Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes, sums up his summer days such. When you sit on a bike for 96 miles heading to Pampa, TX, there remains a lot of nothing to do. Luckily, I recalled a joke -and told it […]
Wow. We’ve made it in 10 days into New Orleans from Austin. That in itself is so astonishing, but to think we have 60 days left is a true privilege. I say privilege because by no means is this a right or a vacation. So far we’ve interacted with a beautiful set of children in […]
Day 8: All Gave Some, Some Gave All At dinner in Watonga, OK today, I sat next to Lloyd, a retired Air Force veteran who dropped troops over Korea. He now flies Cessnas, Pipers, and other small planes for fun. As my long time dream has been to get a pilot’s license, I had a […]
Today was a relatively short day on the bike, as we rode just 50 miles from Santa Rosa, New Mexico to Santa Fe. But despite its brevity, today’s ride was undoubtedly my favorite of the summer ride thus far. Renee, Connor and I rode together and chatted much of the day, but the past part […]
We were only about 10 miles out of Clovis, New Mexico, where stayed last night, when we turned onto a country road and noticed something very odd. Off in the distance was our support van and trailer, forming a V shape in the middle of a farmer’s field. Puzzled by the sight, our ride group […]
Day 7: Cycling Communities Jeff Bennet is an Olympic decathlete who finished fourth in 1972. He was just yards away from the Munich terrorist attract in the Village, served 32 years in the military as a Lieutenant Colonel, and is now the Associate Dean at Oklahoma Christian University. Henry majored in petroleum engineering and worked […]
Hello everyone! I can’t believe we’ve already been on the road a week but here we are. We rolled in to Oklahoma City late this afternoon from Pauls Valley after a long and rather hot day of riding. We stopped in Norman for lunch and to my surprise the place isn’t all that bad! It’s […]
After a full week pedaling through Texas we finally made it out of America’s second biggest state and into New Mexico at the end of today’s ride. I am still in awe of how good the Lone Star State was to us, from perfect weather to even better hosts, but the “Land of the Enchanted” […]
Oh what two days we have had in the city of Houston and the city of Beaumont. Yesterday, June 6th, the mayor of Houston declared it Texas 4000 for cancer day and hosted our 27 person route in the DoubleTree downtown. Not only did we have this honor, but we also had the honor of […]
