This morning was amazing. Not only did I sleep in until almost 10 a.m., but Kathryn cooked us a breakfast of waffles with fruit glaze. After breakfast, everyone met back at Serge and Florence’s house (who actually have a son who is in Texas 4000 for next summer) where we loaded in the vans to […]

It’s day 39 and I’m using the wifi out of some coffee shop in Calgary, Alberta. We biked through the Canadian border yesterday with our passports in our jersey pockets. On our bikes, we rolled up to the customs window and we entered another country…I can’t say I’ve ever done that before. The past few […]

My alarm went off five times before the last one finally woke me up at 3:30 a.m. I actually had to make new alarms on my phone because I had never woken up that early before. Texas 4000 has definitely had a lot of firsts for me (I guess biking to Alaska would be one […]

We are officially in Canada! After packing up our extremely wet gear, we drove straight to the Canadian border (it rained a lot during the night. One clap of thunder was so loud that we all wormed our sleeping bags close to each other in the middle of the tent. Everyone had woken up except […]

Happy 4th of July!!!!  I’m writing to you all after an incredible breakfast in Florence, Oregon. After 4 long days of camping and ~100 mi rides, this is much needed. I was getting pretty sick of pbj for breakfast, lunch 1, lunch 2 and sometimes dinner. After the ~120 mile ride into Valley of Rouge, […]

Hi everyone,Writing real quick while I have service / minimal energy. Today we rode 116 miles to valley of rouge Oregon from redwood national park. What a ride.Between climbing a whole ton and suddenly being hot again… When did the 97 degrees come from?? We left redwood decked out in leg warmers and jackets and […]

Hi everyone,Yesterday I was officially on the sag schedule, so I got one more day to recover. The team ride from nappa to Sonoma state beach park, about 50 miles. It was a fun sag day taking care of everyone and ensuring things ran smoothly. It began with a matching game of socks! As sag […]

Hey everyone!I’ve been SAGing (figured out what it means too, support and gear) which has been coool-ish. The riders had a tough ride into san Franscio area with lots of turn by turns so as sag we had to help people a lot. We also had a great day the day before in Brentwood, CA.We […]

I didn’t realize i hadn’t updated this since the crash. I took off a few days and then got a new bike in San Fran and have been on the bike ever since! I’m so thankful I didn’t get serious injuries and was able to get a bike thanks to Carlos in San Fran. I’m […]

Today was a fitting half way point for the summer ride, simply because of all the random and unexpected things that happened. Oh, and it also happens to be the Fourth of July on the last day before we cross into Canada. The Scenic campsite was cleaned up without a hitch and I rolled out […]