Surprises are awesome because they make good things better! For example: -A cookie is nice…but finding the cookie your significant other slipped into your backpack is better -Twenty dollars is nice… but reaching into your pocket and finding a twenty you didn’t know you had is better -Being told your supervisor at work wants to […]

5:19AM Austin, TX Words can not really describe whats going on right now. Its snow day in Austin, TX. I was outside with my good friends Alsha, Yasmin and Marlem having the most wonderful time..we found a trash can lid and slid down south mall with it!..Snow in Texas, it was quite amazing. And lets […]

This semester has already been a roller coaster ride. Our training has begun to pick up the pace, finance deadlines have come and gone quickly, and preparation still lies dauntingly in front of us. As I continue to prepare for this journey I hear many stories of cancer’s impact in the community. Just yesterday on […]

As my first blog, I feel like I should say something insanely insightful or dig deep into my soul for some words of wisdom. All I can think of is that I’m so incredibly excited to be doing Texas 4000 with a team full of such wonderful people! I just got home from one of […]

It has been a while. A lot has happened since I last blogged (is it safe to assume that “blog” has made it into the dictionary as a brand new 21st century verb?) The usual T4K schedule has begun again, training and meetings and tacos and e-mails… and this along with school and work has […]

Hi everyone! Just wanted to write a quick update about how the new year has been going. I was lucky enough to start off 2011 in Madrid, Spain which was an incredible experience and lovely change of pace, but it was just as exciting to get back to Austin and to my Texas 4000 preparation. […]

Today was the first day I got back on the bike after two months since I didn’t take it to Dallas over the break. I definitely realized there is a lot of work to be done. Although I tried to play basketball as often as I could and do some small workouts at home, nothing […]

2011 is here. In 2009 when we formed this summer’s team, I don’t even think you could buy a 2011 calendar (thankfully, comments are disabled on these blogs because I have no idea if that’s true.) Over that time, my perspective of the summer 2011 has evolved from a nascent fantasy of biking north all […]

There have been countless times where people have heard about what Texas 4000 for Cancer is doing (namely riding bicycles 4600 miles across the continent to fight cancer) and are just taken aback. Such a journey at first seems like a tall order, not impossible, still quite a feat. This makes perfect sense, because our […]

(For other blog entries, visit journeyforalifetime.tumblr.com) In 3 days, it will be my ride year. It’s slowly starting to sink in, what I’m going to be doing. Riding to Alaska. On a bike. For 70 days. Traveling across the American and Canadian rockies. As Usher (poorly) put it, O.M.G. 2010 was a really strange year […]