I am 30 days in and this is the first time I have had a second to sit down and blog. I have thought about it many times with my Mom’s voice in the back of my head telling me she wants to hear how things are going and get updates. I know it’s killing […]

We woke up at 7 a.m. which is fairly late by Texas 4000 standards but I still groggily stared at my bag for a few minutes wishing it would pack itself. Corey our host at the church provided a great breakfast of keishes, cereal, and muffins. One very notable difference in our morning routine was […]

I ended up just sleeping in my hammock last night because it was the perfect temperature, and besides getting a few bug bites I slept amazing. We rolled out of the Wyalusing State Park a little after our 7 a.m. planned time, due to a stop at the campsite overlook point. The ride dedication circle […]

Wyoming has been an experience. Our bike ride went from mountains to rolling hills, and you could just feel that we were nearing the Wyoming state line. We crossed the border in an anticlimactic fashion…no sign officially welcomed us since it had been reconstructed or something weird. But, our teammates did set up a “paradise” […]

So first I must apologize, because I intended to write much more than I have up to this point. It turns out biking across the country is a pretty tiring endeavor, and finding time for something as quick as a blog post is exceedingly difficult when each night when I finally find free time I […]

I woke up a little earlier this morning than the wake up call at 5:30 a.m., which was perfect because I got to use the bathroom first. Sometimes the little things can make my day. I honestly cannot believe that we fit 27 people in the host home, but there were definitely no open spots […]

This morning we got to wake up at 7 a.m. which means I got close to 7 hours of sleep for the first time in a long time. Jackie and Jeff, who are Emmy’s relatives, cooked an amazing breakfast for us and then joined in on our ride dedication. Today I dedicated my ride to […]

The 5:30 a.m. wake up time came around fast and luckily I got to take a quick cold shower to fully wake up. My host Daniel cooked some great breakfast tacos and we enjoyed the foggy view from his 22nd floor apartment while we ate. Apparently the fog in Chicago has been unusually frequent. Because […]

I’m still trying to figure out why they call our days off the bike “rest days”. We still wake up early and jam as much stuff as we can into every waking moment. The first thing that we did this morning after breakfast was head to downtown Chicago for a presentation by Imerman Angles, an […]

Pretty much all I’ve done so far today is ride my bike and it is 9 p.m. We ended up riding a personal-record of 130 miles in a little less than 13 hours, all the way from Champaign to Chicago. We woke up at a whopping 4:30 a.m. to pack up stuff, eat breakfast prepared […]