It’s Sunday June 10th, 9 days since the start of this ride. So far I’ve biked 480+ mi from Austin, TX to Watonga, OK (with one 117mi SAG day). We’ve biked through the metropolis of Fort Worth and the farmlands of small Oklahoma towns. Our riding conditions have included humidity, dry heat, gusting head winds, […]

Today is a rest day in Oklahoma City, OK. It is a day of rest, reflection, and catching up. I am still trying to catch up on blogging so I am going to write down five random thoughts from Days 2-8 that I wanted to share with you, and start blogging more regularly tomorrow. Day […]

First post, shablagoo! So, this entry is long past due and I have a lot to cover, look for another one soon. The 2012 team just left which means it’s t-minus 357 days til we take-off ourselves. It’s finally starting to feel real. It has been such a wild and crazy journey thus far and […]

So much has happened in the last 5 days I don’t even know where to start. Since the last time I checked in, we cycled from Stephenville, TX to Oklahoma City. That’s a lot of mileage and alot of shenanigans. My Rockies family never ceases to entertain me. I seriously don’t think I’ve stopped laughing […]

So after talking to my mother yesterday on the phone and getting scolded for not updating facebook nor blogging, I thought that our rest day in Oklahoma City today would be a grand time to catch my paparazzi up on all things Texas 4000… as in the past week. Gird your loins! This is going […]

Winters, TX Snyder, TX Clovis, NM On the morning before our ride to Clovis from Snyder, TX we were eating breakfast with members from a local church. I had the privilege of sitting next to Pop. Pop,a local originally from Golthwaite, TX, told Nora, Christine and Rachel and I his name however he said that […]

Day 7 June 8th Miles: 117 Wake up time at 5am..we had a breakfast provided by the church. Pancakes with orange juice and coffee. We knew we were headed for a tough ride..and it was really a long and challenging day. the first 20…woah I didn’t think Oklahoma was beautiful..we passed turner falls and it […]

First of all, I have really come to appreciate the little things. For intance, I am writing this blog being freshly showered, with amazing water pressure, sitting on a comfortable couch in an air conditioned room, fully equipt with a mattress and light. We woke up in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The generous volunteers woke up extra […]

We are currently en route to Albuquerque and spirits are high! Between rapping and napping, van time definitely provides some excellent bonding time for the team. We began yesterday’s ride a bit apprehensive. Notes in the travel binder from previous years warned us of brutal head winds and blistering sun. Our hosts told a stories […]

It took an 8-page application and an interview to get a call — the call. Through the grapevine, I had heard that my friend, Lily, received her call between 12-1PM. That was around 2PM; it was now 7:30PM. I just stared at the unknown number on my phone as it began to ring and thought […]