Today I posted a Facebook status of lyrics from a Metallica song so I could show off how cool I am. Unfortunately I spelled it wrong. Instead of “Where I lay my head is home. And the earth becomes my throne.” I posted “… the earth becomes my throWN.” A fellow TX4K rider corrected my […]

Upon seeing the immediate blogging actions of my teammates I’ve decided it’s time to do the same. I myself can’t deny the competitive draw of out blogging the 2011 team. I went running tonight to start working on getting in shape for the ride, but more importantly I managed to do so without aggravating a […]

Hello, Texas 4000 world! I received a call this afternoon from the staff of Congressman Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) informing me that they would like me as an intern this summer in Davenport, Iowa. Being at home this summer allows me to spend an extra summer with my mother, come to understand better how i will […]

I, like the rest of the 2012 riders, are new to the Texas 4000 team. When I walked into my first meeting in the CPE building, I immediately knew that this group of individuals would soon become my second family. When I watched the 2011 team break a world record of “the most dancers wearing […]

A year and a half…. Ok, I can live with that. Even though I can’t get T4K off my mind, I think I can wait that long. The reality that I will be biking 4000 miles across the United States in a little over a year is sometimes hard to believe. I mean, HOW COOL […]

My latest schooling in panhandling came from a nice homeless man named Steve and his wife, Jessica. I was out with Maria one afternoon last semester at my favorite panhandling haunt. Steve and his wife were at the same street corner where I like to panhandle, which led to a bit of a dilemma for […]

My first time panhandling was with Jeremy and some other teammates near the end of the summer when we were all trying to make our September 1st $1000 fundraising deadline. I was impressed by Jeremy who has fine-tuned his panhandling skills to an art. He’s watched different intersections and analyzed which would be the best […]

Here’s to now… Since my last blog, I haven’t really felt that anything significant has happened to me that I could blog about, and i’ve been really wanting to get something written down to share with you. A friend once told me that the best journeys are those, that in the beginning, answer the questions […]

Here I am at the precipice of the journey of a lifetime. This is my first entry as a member of the team for summer 2012, and there are too many things I want to tell you about. I want to tell you about why I am here, (my warrior of a mother) I want […]

Okay, so all day I have been thinking about the incredible opportunity that both the 2011 and 2012 teams had last night to hear Mike Thompson (http://ironmikey.com/aboutus.aspx) speak at our weekly meeting. Literally, the encouragement and light that he brought to that engineering room last night have truly been sitting with me all day. Mike, […]