About Me

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24 and an eligible bachelor, I am an Austin native. I have never traveled outside the United States so this ride should be a doubly unique experience. I was a TCU Horned Frog for two years before transferring to UT and becoming a TRUE Longhorn after my lifetime membership in the Longhorn Nation. As a philosophy student, I realized I didn't want to live in a tiny box after graduation, so I now study economics so I can live in a slightly bigger box. One day I hope to have saved up for a nice van down by the river. I am a frequenter of Austin’s blues establishments. However, my tastes range from blues to electronica. Go figure. I don’t like ice in my milk, I have a squeaky eye and I can lick my elbow. Life is an odyssey and I try to take it all in.

Why I Ride

I ride because I must. I am a survivor of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and have been in remission since October 2007. I ride because there are people who need to be shown that the light at the end of the C tunnel is really there. I ride to show them that they don’t have to settle for the toll that the disease wreaks on our bodies and minds. We can take back what cancer took from us and get our lives back in order and send a return volley to the disease. Collectively, we can have the last word.

When I ride, I think of Ray, who, in his fifties, left a wife and two daughters; I think of Jackie, who, in her thirties, left a husband and two sons; I ride for Katie K.’s dad, Gedy T.’s mom. Where ever they are, I ride for the people I left in the infusion room; and I ride for those who had it worse than me.