Goal: Bike over 3,400 miles across the country from San Francisco, California to Long Beach Island, New Jersey

 

Start Date: June 9th flight from Philadelphia, PA to San Francisco, CA

 

End Date: Reach the East Coast by August 15th


CTCTen Organization

On our trip across the country we are going to be spreading the word about CTCTen and about the work that it is doing in conjunction with our school, F&M.

Please take a look at this foundation and see if you can help make a difference in the world... anything you can do is much appreciated...

Mission:

The CTCTen Foundation in conjunction with the Franklin & Marshall Men’s Soccer Team has begun a unique project to help effect change in the world. Partnering with the GrassRoot Soccer organization,the foundation has targeted a specific disadvantaged, HIV/AIDS impacted region to help.

The Soccer Africa Field Project aspires to create the Chris Campbell Memorial Facility in Khayelitsha, South Africa. The field would be a haven for impoverished children that will also have a clubhouse which will be used for HIV/AIDS education classes. An annual internship will be created for an F&M soccer student athlete to spend a year in Khayelistha teaching soccer and encouraging HIV/AIDS preventive behaviors at the facility.

The CTC Ten Foundation, in conjunction with the F&M Team, families and alumni and are doing all they can to make the athletic and educational facility and internship a reality. It is through the generous support of everyone in the community that this vision will become a reality.

CTCTen.org » Mission

Thursday, June 12, 2008

and they're off!!!

Finally got on the road around 4pm on Wednesday. Spent most of the day sitting in front of the bike shop waiting for Kara and Dan's bikes to be delivered. After a short 6.5 mile ride they hopped onto the Ferry for a 50 minute ride across the bay. They pedaled until about 9pm where they slept on a grassy knoll near a development.

Up early on Thursday morning and hit the road. 50 miles into the trip Kara has blown a tire, learning bike repair early, hope she has alot of extra tubes. They are in Rockville, CA fixing the tire and heading to the Nevada state line, might make Nevada Friday or Saturday.
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2 comments:

G said...

You slept in a grassy nolllllllllll???? hahaha

June 12, 2008 at 5:07 PM
G said...

annnnndd kara has a flat tire, i honestly wanna know play by play of how this occurred....

June 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM

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