It's been a lot of fun following them on their journey. They're riding through every continental state except North Dakota (nothing there and not worth fighting the wind at the time to get there), Alaska, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. They've camped at national parks and under church awnings, making the trip as inexpensive as they can.
The last leg of their trip is a fundraiser for the Free Wheelchair Mission. But yeah, they've tried with some exceptions to avoid major city areas - they're not always cycle friendly. Actually, some of the rural areas are bad too - Emmy has made more than one comment about people throwing cans/bottles at them as they've been riding down the road. That's not to mention a few inattentive drivers as well. It hasn't been all bad though, reading through their blog posts (which can be a challenge, I know) you see story after story of people going out of their way to help them. They stayed with my mom when they were going through southeast Oklahoma, folks have bought them hotel rooms and food and in a couple of cases have given them rides when the wind or bicycle repairs had forced them to a stop. I've heard they may write a book about their trip, if so they've got a lot of source material! Hatton Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > If they're around my area I'd be happy to grab a bite with them and show > > them around a bit. Maybe I'll shoot them a note. > > > > Looks like they are skipping the city and going around, cool to make > this connection though! Thanks for mentioning the ride, it sounds like a > very cool trip for them. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
