Texas 4000 journal Day 0 UT campus to Cedar Park Miles: 43 Today was our big day! A mixture of emotions, the jitters and getting to meet so many people. We started our day with the ride dedication circle at Lbj fountain. An emotional experience summarizing our training experience, our teammates, ruel, and why we […]

I woke up like the boy in Stuart Little screaming ITS TODAY!, ITS TODAY! This is so different from my mentality when I went to bed last night, thinking about a very daunting tomorrow. It was a nervous anxious about jumping into unknown territory. Everything I do for the next 70 days will be an […]

Write about a time you overcame an obstacle. I remember writing an essay to this prompt at the beginning of my senior year of high school for my English class. Our teacher told us it would come in handy for college essays and other applications. Boy was she right. I think I used that essay […]

It’s the night before the ride, and today has been overwhelming. After 17 months in the organization, all of the loose ends came down to this one last day. As Travel chair, I printed out the binders that contain this summer’s logistics. From turning Left onto Union Ave from Boulevard Ave in Olympia, WA, to […]

So it’s 11:40pm on the night before Day 0. This is weird. Time has gone by so fast. It seems like not that long ago that I was in Alaska greeting my brother and the 2010 team as they finished their journey. I can’t believe the time has come for my team to leave. First […]

For days now, I’ve felt like that little kid in the back of the van, incessantly repeating the question that just about pushes everyone around her to the edge of insanity: are we there yet? The thing is that we still have miles and miles to go; 4,500 miles to be exact… These are the […]

On November 2010 I was accepted to organization known as Texas 4000 for Cancer. Little did I know that this organization has transformed to the person I am today and so honored to be a member in. Starting Tomorrow (June 1st) my teammates and I will embark in the longest charity bike ride known to […]

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Well, here we are. The past few weeks have seen me sleeping on a lone mattress in my room as piece by piece I have packed up my life here in Austin and sent my worldly possessions scattering among friends, back home to Houston, or packed up in a tiny bag which is as of […]

It’s just a little over 24 hours before 42 of us leave for Alaska to spread hope, knowledge, and charity in the fight against cancer. In the past 24 months, this team has been transformed from strangers to a family fighting for the same cause. There have been at least 24 different volunteer events attended, […]