It’s officially our ride year. Next summer, I will bike to Alaska to fight cancer. I can’t believe it’s finally here. I’m so excited, and I’m ready to give this year my all. Fundraising. Training. Ride preparation… there’s so much yet to be done before we leave, but that is the best part. This journey […]

What a week! I am proud to announce that not only am I entering the Fall 2014 semester as a member of the current Texas 4000 for Cancer, but I am also fortunate enough to be able to start my first week interning with LIVESTRONG (A nonprofit which just agreed to donate $50 million over […]

Dear Diary, I have never written a blog or diary entry so I’m not really sure what to say and I feel weird talking to nobody. Tribute was last week and it was really awesome. I spent pretty much the whole day downtown at the event venue and there was plenty to do. In the […]

About halfway through the summer, I decided I needed a well-deserved escape from the confines of computers, telephones, and cubicles as well as the general hustle and bustle, dog-eat-dog mentality of corporate life in a city. Perusing online for a while, it didn’t take me long to find an amazingly well reviewed destination: Pikes Peak, Colorado. The goliath sloped […]

It’s finally here – my ride year. It’s crazy to think that in several months, I will be biking from Texas to Alaska. I never thought when I was first applying to be apart of the Texas 4000 team that I would be standing here today, $1,585 already raised for the fight against cancer. Fundraising […]

Hello!   Thank you for your interest in learning more about my journey. You can view my official Texas 4000 blog at the following address: http://t4kabby.wordpress.com/   Thanks!   Abby  

A part of this organization is a little more than pedal pushing across a continent; an equalling daunting task to biking is fundraising. For every mile we bike, we have to match that with a dollar from personal fundraising, at a minimum. This can be from intimate and platonic relationships such as family, friends, and close […]

School has begun, and for me and my  fellow 2015 team riders, this means it is officially our ride year! I am still in shock as if my subconscious refuses to accept that time rolls by (literally) so fast for us. Just last year, I was considering applying to Texas 4000 for Cancer. Like many […]

This week I moved back to Austin and have been doing fun T4K things every day since! To start, we had our annual Tribute Gala celebrating the 2014 team’s return from the ride. I got to volunteer and hang out with my teammates for the first time since last May and had an amazing time. […]

To my surprise, panhandling has been a lot more tolerable  than I imagined, at times it’s even been exhilarating. I found out about Texas 4000 when I saw previous team members panhandling, so I knew it was something I was probably going to do when I joined the organization… but when it came time to […]