Make a Donation Per Mile
A kind friend of Reconnecting Families has agreed to honor donations to RF for each mile of his trip. Can you afford to pledge 1 cent per mile, or maybe 10 cents per mile? In return your donations will go to Reconnecting Families, and you can follow Chris's wild ride. Read more about his journey in his own words and email him to make that pledge!:
Hi all:
First of all, thanks. I have had some contact with some of you over the years, but had no email addresses. I may have seen you last 40 years ago, but the memories are still vivid.
Future e-mails will probably come from my work address; you can contact me at either
hoeberc@gmail.com
hoeberc@ssd.loral.com
I will be departing on Sunday (Easter) from Costa Mesa, CA on a 33 day bicycle ride that ends in Amesbury, MA (near NH border). This is something that I have wanted to do since the establishment of the Bikecentennial Trail in 1976 and the start of Race Across America (RAAM) in the early 80's. I finally decided that if I wait until I retire I may be too old, so I am taking 5 weeks of vacati on to do this. The ride is sponsored by a group called America by Bicycle and in order to do it I had to demonstrate that I could ride 100 miles in 6 hours (I did qualifying rides of 5:37 in February and 5:36 in a rainstorm in March) and since I am a Senior Citizen, I needed a doctor's permission. I also spent a hell of a lot of time since January riding in the dark, in the rain, in horrific winds, etc.). I'm ready!
Of course I am doing the ride for myself, but I will also be sponsored by Special Need Children's Center Foundation, which was started by a friend and colleag ue at work. His son has been in a wheelchair forever, and Zia got pissed off when he had to buy his first wheelchair: not only was it horribly expensive, it was junk. If you feel up to it, there is a link on the SNCCF web site to make a donation or pledge based on my ride results:
http://www.snccf.org/
My ride is organized by a group calle d America by Bicycle, and I have my detailed itinerary, including my hotel for each night. I'll be going across NY from Buffalo to just north of Albany, just N of the Finger Lakes. I see that a few of you live in that general area so if you want to drop me a line (I will have intrenet each night) we can arrange to meet for dinner (warning: I will want to eat everything in sight and I can't stay up all night drinking beer). The itinerary is attached. In NY, I will stay in Dunkirk, Batavia, Liverpool and Amsterdam on May 21-24. Mary will meet me in Amesbury, on the 26th.
Here is a description of the ride (115 miles per day):
http://www.americabybicycle.com/Fast/
And here is the link to my blog. I have started it (mostly to make sure that I know how to do it) but I will be posting to it every day starting Saturday.
http://hoeberc.blog spot.com/
Hope to hear from some of you.
Chris
First of all, thanks. I have had some contact with some of you over the years, but had no email addresses. I may have seen you last 40 years ago, but the memories are still vivid.
Future e-mails will probably come from my work address; you can contact me at either
hoeberc@gmail.com
hoeberc@ssd.loral.com
I will be departing on Sunday (Easter) from Costa Mesa, CA on a 33 day bicycle ride that ends in Amesbury, MA (near NH border). This is something that I have wanted to do since the establishment of the Bikecentennial Trail in 1976 and the start of Race Across America (RAAM) in the early 80's. I finally decided that if I wait until I retire I may be too old, so I am taking 5 weeks of vacati on to do this. The ride is sponsored by a group called America by Bicycle and in order to do it I had to demonstrate that I could ride 100 miles in 6 hours (I did qualifying rides of 5:37 in February and 5:36 in a rainstorm in March) and since I am a Senior Citizen, I needed a doctor's permission. I also spent a hell of a lot of time since January riding in the dark, in the rain, in horrific winds, etc.). I'm ready!
Of course I am doing the ride for myself, but I will also be sponsored by Special Need Children's Center Foundation, which was started by a friend and colleag ue at work. His son has been in a wheelchair forever, and Zia got pissed off when he had to buy his first wheelchair: not only was it horribly expensive, it was junk. If you feel up to it, there is a link on the SNCCF web site to make a donation or pledge based on my ride results:
http://www.snccf.org/
My ride is organized by a group calle d America by Bicycle, and I have my detailed itinerary, including my hotel for each night. I'll be going across NY from Buffalo to just north of Albany, just N of the Finger Lakes. I see that a few of you live in that general area so if you want to drop me a line (I will have intrenet each night) we can arrange to meet for dinner (warning: I will want to eat everything in sight and I can't stay up all night drinking beer). The itinerary is attached. In NY, I will stay in Dunkirk, Batavia, Liverpool and Amsterdam on May 21-24. Mary will meet me in Amesbury, on the 26th.
Here is a description of the ride (115 miles per day):
http://www.americabybicycle.com/Fast/
And here is the link to my blog. I have started it (mostly to make sure that I know how to do it) but I will be posting to it every day starting Saturday.
http://hoeberc.blog spot.com/
Hope to hear from some of you.
Chris
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