SPOKIN' HOME - A YEAR OF ADVENTURE

We love to travel and especially to visit our family in Denver. Four years ago we had the crazy idea to ride our bikes home from Denver, approximately 1550 miles. Over a period of several months we told many people about our idea - the idea began to turn into a plan and before we knew it we had told enough people that we were going to do and couldn't turn back!

So over a period of four months we started seriously working towards doing this. There were some ups and downs and we certainly were not in the condition that we hoped to be by our start date. We started by doing biking on stationary bikes at the LifePlex in Plymouth, IN. We have had some good hours on the bike and were able to watch a few movies on their projection system while biking. It is great to have such a nice facility. I admit that watching Julie and Julia, instead of the 2008 Ironman is a little different workout, but it has been fun.

We had a great ride for 1,000 mile and then we had a little mishap. If you read through our blog Stick with our blog you can read more about that cycling experience and other adventure for that year.

Now we are four years down the road. Many good things have happened to our family during those years. On May 28, 2014 we will return to our last riding point, get on our bikes again and finish the last 500+ miles. Join us as we continue our adventure.




Monday, June 7, 2010

Monday, June 7 Too tired to do much of a blog

We really shouldn't be tired, but we are.  We quit riding today about 12:15.  Extremely hot and humid, believe it or not and the winds were 20 + gusting to 40.  Not great riding weather.  We met some tremendous people today.  Hopefully, I will feel like doing a blog tomorrow and have Internet access.  We are staying in a church in Sheridan Lake, CO and should be looking for Dorothy in Kansas tomorrow.  Our odometer says we have ridden 280 miles.  Not the average we would like, but we have decided that we are going to just keep riding at the pace we can and see how far we can get.  Hopefully, we will make it to Plymouth, but if not we already have had some great experiences on this ride.  We will keep riding. 

Stayed tuned for our next blog because today was definitely a day of doing something for other - things were done for us and we got to do something for someone else.

Take good care of yourselves and do something for others today!
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  1. KestrelJune 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM

    Jack and Mary Kay, the trip sounds very draining physically. Your stories of the people you have met along the way, the acts of kindness extended are a great read. Hang in there!

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