Pictures!

Training ride to Minster, Oh

Guest Speakers @ Tipp City Rotary

Interview on Bucher's Beat!

May 21st Ross and I were interviewed by Jim Bucher on Channel 2 news.  Despite us having to be up at 4:30am it was an awesome experience.  We had numerous people from the community come out and support us!  

Each day were getting closer and closer to our $10,000 goal for the ABTA.  If your not keeping track at hope.abta.org/wrightflyers2009 we are just about to the 10% marker.  We both feel this is a good start, as we hope many more donations come in as we hit the road.  

We have made our plans for departure, which will happen June 6th.  We will be driving down to Virginia Saturday the 6th, then starting our journey either that afternoon or early Sunday the 7th.  We will be updating this blog at least twice a week, but hope to see that number be more like 5 times a week.  We know that you all will be very anxious to see how were doing!

Dayton Daily News & Tipp City Rotary

On Thursday May 7th the Dayton Daily News ran an article on our bicycle trip.  I think that the article was very well written and should be positive for gaining donations.  On Tuesday May 13th Ross and myself will be the guest speakers for the Tipp City Rotary.  This is going to be a wonderful chance for us to get in front of up to 75 local business owners who are potential sponsors.  We are both looking forward to taking the next month to promote the trip as we will depart in early June.  You can see our news article by clicking here.

Making Progress!

We have been working hard to secure some sponsorships in order to make the ride possible.  I would like to thank those who have decided to help us.  We are closing down on a month until our departure date.  To make sure we are ready Ross and I have been on out bicycles as much as possible.  More updates will be coming soon!

Training Ride

A video clip from my ride.  I am testing to see how video will look on here!

Training Ride

                                                                            I rode this afternoon for about three and a half hours.  So far I'm having a love hate relationship with the trucker.  When the wind is to my back and I'm going down hill we get along great, but as soon as the table turns we don't get along a whole lot.  But all in all I really do love the rig!  

I started out at my sisters house, which is right in the middle of town.  I road down to the new bicycle path, which is right across the street from the canal downtown.  From there I went south, only having to get onto the road briefly at Canal Street.  I took the path all the way to Dayton, then returned to Tipp City.  I decided that was not enough, and had time to spare before dinner.  I rode up to Die Mill Road in Troy, them returned home.  The whole ride went without a hitch, although I did have an odd occurrence.  As I was riding by the Tipp City City Park I noticed a lump behind my left knee.  I would say it was about the size of a grape, cut in half.  It is now visibly gone, but when touched you can feel that there is something there.  I Googled it and got a million results, but it doesn't seem to be a big deal.  I guess I will just watch it.

Working On Everything

Well the final quarter of school has finally arrived before we take off onto our journey!  The quarter should not be to terribly difficult.  If everything goes right we will be able to leave about a week early seeing that I will have nothing going on exam week.  I am working hard along side my parents to secure both donations and sponsorships.  If you know anybody who may be interested please get them in contact with myself or our webpage!  Now that we have most of the things for the trip it is time to just train.  Virginia will be the first state we tackle and is considered to be the most difficult state.  We will experience as many as thirteen days there with nothing but up and down up and down!