It’s a story of one local daughter’s love for her mom. On Sunday, June 7, Courtney Summerville gets on a bicycle in Austin. In late August, she’ll get off that bike in Anchorage, Alaska. Her trip will last 70 days and over 4,800 miles. So why is she making this ride? Because she loved her […]

The kind of gumption it takes to spend three hot summer months riding a bicycle 4,000 miles across mountains, deserts and forests is, to say the least, uncommon. But to the 41 or so members of Texas 4000, all students at the University of Texas in Austin, the challenge, pain and sometimes even grueling misery […]