I first heard the name “Texas 4000” during the second semester of my freshman year. I had just joined Texas Spirits, and one of my “weenie sisters,” Lane Follmar, started telling all of us about this bike ride to Alaska she was going to embark on in a few months. From that moment on, I […]

Three of the six vans from the 2013 ride arrived back in Austin tonight. Several of us from the 2014 team got together to clean out and wash them and. pulling up to the vans, I spotted one of my close friends having only just arrived. His name is Barron and he was one of […]

I remember that I never was afraid of monsters under my bed. I never believed there were creatures in my closet that would haunt me while I slept. I don’t quite know why but my guess is because of my life growing up. My home was one of warmth and happiness; such “scary things” couldn’t […]

AAAAANNNDDD I’m off. Welcome to the start of my ride year. A year soon to be full of fundraising, practice rides, scrapes, bruises, laughs, tears, frustration, and most importantly, hope! Having just returned from a study abroad trip in Hong Kong where I studied Target’s supply chain in China, I’ve been thrown to the wolves […]

I am so honored and excited to be part of this amazing organization. I have been keeping a journal for the past few months about my experience with Texas 4000 and my personal struggle with watching Cancer take my father’s life too soon. I want to show the world first hand the real emotions and […]

This is my first blog entry–ever! After joining Texas 4000 in the fall of 2012, I have enjoyed getting to meet my teammates and learn more about the organization. I am amazed by the amount of planning my team will have to do prior to our ride, and I have been so impressed by the […]

I can’t believe that it is already my ride year. In about 7 months, I will be on a bike on my way to Alaska. I still can’t believe how crazy of a task it is that I am trying to accomplish, and I’m so excited to be a part of the team. Put into […]

It is now August and I am not sure where the summer went. Perhaps most of it was spent in my own head, as I attempted to rationalize my decision to get on a bicycle for the first time in years to ride to Alaska or digest the fact that my team’s ride year would […]

The 2013 Texas 4000 team reached Alaska two days ago. Each and every member on that team rode through the rain, the wind, the soreness and did the impossible. The 2013 team members (and all the members from previous years) are my role models and I only hope that I will be able to replicate […]

I haven’t yet written a journal entry about my knee injury for 2 reasons. The first was that I didn’t know how to sum up my emotions and the second was that if I had written anything before now, my words would have been filled with bitterness. This wasn’t a tragedy, but for me, I […]