Hello everyone! I’m writing today from the beautiful home of Courtney’s uncle, Bob Schutze, just north of downtown Dallas.  We have our first rest day today, and got some much needed rest last night.  The ride is finally underway, and we’ve had a fun few days of riding.  Yesterday was an awesome ride, we started […]

We made it to College Station safely, and good news, there are in fact some longhorns who live here. I think all 20 of them visited us at the College Station High School where we rolled in after a long day of riding. I, however, got out of riding today because I was one of […]

This morning we rode in and out of the CPE parking lot for one last time as a team. Since November we had been meeting here very Saturday morning to roll out for our training rides. None of this feels real yet but the 79 of us will no longer do this again.   Today’s […]

2014 Sierra Route at Lake Brownwood. June 1st, 2014. Three days have passed since our team left Austin. The feeling of spending an entire day on a bike is slowly becoming normal. In the normal world, being in the sun for hours upon hours is frightening. Yet, we are doing it everyday and adjusting to […]

Today was both happy and sad in that it was our first day riding by ourselves as a team, but each route also split off and went their separate ways. It will be 60 more days until we see our teammates again in Canada, so it was an emotional morning saying goodbye. In fact, it […]

*I don’t have Wifi or cell service today so this blog will be posted a little late. Today was Day 1. I’ll go ahead and say it again, but I can’t believe that the ride has begun. I woke up this morning along with the rest of the team at 5 a.m., and we started […]

It was incredible sending off some close friends on the 2014 team yesterday after over a year and a half of their preparations.  I was a part of the committee that helped plan the ATLAS Ride along with other 2015 teammates over the course of this past semester.  The ride and festival were huge successes, […]

The hills were no longer obstacles for me. The heat no longer bore down on my shoulders. The wind no longer threw off my balance. I felt that I could do anything because I know that there are others out there who have gone through so much more.

In a few short hours, I will hop onto Stinky Pete and bike over to campus, leaving my car in the driveway for 2 1/2 months. I’ll cycle into an empty parking lot where a group of college kids in jerseys will have their arms wrapped around each other in a large circle. We will […]

Tomorrow is the day!  I don’t think I believe it, but I’m finally beginning my journey to Alaska.  So many people have made this trip possible, and I want to thank all of my family and friends for their support now and over the last 18 months.  I completely failed at creating journal entries during the […]