I can do all things through Him  who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:13 Several days ago I completed one of the most physically and emotionally exhausting feats of my life. I rode a bicycle nearly 100 miles through hilly terrain facing brutal  winds of up to 30 miles per hour. Such a task sounds nearly […]

July 5th Miles: 70ish Today was a little different from my routine ride or sag schedule. It was the first day of the summer where I wouldn’t be able to ride because of a planned visit to the doctors. Along with me were also Taylor, Diana and shea who also needed to make visits for […]

July 4th Day 33 Miles: 63 America day. That’s what our team likes to call it. It’s a great day. I mean c’mon. We’re cycling across the greatest nation to ever exist (biased, maybe not but really ‘merica is great). It’s the land of peanut butter and jelly, nascar, and cheese burgers. Haha but in […]

Day 32 33 Eureka, CA: Avenue of the Giants and Meth Yesterday we biked from Redway to Eureka, of which the first 35 miles were on the Avenue of the Giants, a meandering, narrow, and beautiful blacktop road that takes cyclists and motorists within inches of many of the oldest trees in the world. The […]

Today we rode from Redway, California to Eureka, California — it was 70 miles of beautiful, beautiful forest. We even biked through the “Avenue of the Giants,” which was an area of MASSIVE redwood trees. They are so huge that it actually took me 1 minute and 9 seconds to give one whole tree a […]

From the tiny towns of Texas to the literal concrete jungle that is San Francisco, we have had the unique opportunity to see a range of lifestyles. And of course the the most cliche but valuable lesson has been it’s not what you have but how you live. Hospitality has a unique way of bringing […]

Now that I have caught everyone up with the beginning of my great journey, I will share the good news that I am BACK ON THE BIKE! Several doctors appointments, 4 cortisone injections, and hundreds of ice packs later, I am ready to ride! My knee issues are still prevalent, although less active at the […]

July 3rd Miles: 100 “Pain I hear it makes you stronger makes you better that there’s beauty to be found in whitiling away the weaker parts of ourselves In being forced to dig deeper to uncover the undiscovered strength buried in our core I want to know this pain. I want to be humbled by […]

Hi there- We’re a month into the trip and I haven’t blogged in, well, about a month. I remember thinking last year, “Why don’t the riders blog more often? It’s so easy!” But really it’s not. There is so much that goes into our days and my to-do list never ends, but I am so […]

Day 31 This morning Lori Cole and the First Pres congregation showed us the art of making omeletes in a bag. It was incredible. One takes a deep freeze ziplock bag, cracks 2 or 3 eggs into it, pour in your fixings, and then boil the bag for 13 minutes and ho! you have a […]