Time to Pack...

Orientation is tomorrow and I'm packing lightly because I'm living out of a duffel bag for 9 weeks. The hardest part is trying to figure out what 2 T-shirts I want to pack and wear all summer.

I have 6 things to say...

1. Thank you to all the donors/family/friends/teachers and everyone else who has supported me. I literally would not be able to go on this trip without your help.

2. If you want to send me mail - wait, no... WHEN you send me mail, you can figure out how to send it to different drop points on my trip via this link

http://www.bikeandbuild.org/cms/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,347/

3. You can see where I am on the trip by clicking the "Click to Track Me" link on the right sidebar. That link will let you see what build days, rest days, mail drops are on my route and where my trip is in America. You also have the opportunity to stare a snazzy picture of my face.

Alternatively, if any of you have mobile phones with GPS or the 'Loopt' application on it, you can add me as a friend and follow me in real time to see where I am at any given time. Isn't technology cool? Rhetorical question - yes.

5. If you want a postcard, let me know along with your address. I keep repeating this because several people requested one, but never gave me their address and I don't remember everyone who has asked me for one in the past 5 months.


6. This is on the Bike and Build website, but here is the breakdown of the trip:

Week: Date City - State Mi. 05/15 Nags Head - NC 0 05/16 Nags Head - NC 0 05/17 Swanquarter - NC 66 05/18 Belhaven - NC 34 05/19 Greenville - NC 58 05/20 Wake Forest - NC 79 05/21 Chapel Hill - NC 39 05/22 BUILD DAY 0 05/23 DAY OFF 0 05/24 Winston-Salem - NC 89 05/25 Charlotte - NC 68 05/26 BUILD DAY 0 05/27 Forest City - NC 57 05/28 Asheville - NC 79 05/29 BUILD DAY 0 05/30 Gatlinburg - TN 82 05/31 Maryville - TN 45 06/1 BUILD DAY 0 06/2 Sweetwater - TN 39 06/3 Dunlap - TN 79 06/4 Monteagle - TN 44 06/5 Pulaski - TN 85 06/6 Adamsville - TN 85 06/7 Bolivar - TN 38 06/8 Memphis - TN 56 06/9 DAY OFF 0 06/10 Brinkley - AR 91 06/11 Little Rock - AR 68 06/12 BUILD DAY 0 06/13 Clarksville - AR 101 06/14 Fayetteville - AR 89 06/15 Grove - OK 77 06/16 Bartlesville - OK 68 06/17 DAY OFF 0 06/18 Ponca City - OK 71 06/19 Cherokee - OK 80 06/20 Coldwater - KS 89 06/21 Dodge City - KS 67 06/22 Garden City - KS 53 06/23 Lamar - CO 102 06/24 Rocky Ford - CO 75 06/25 Colorado Springs - CO 124 06/26 BUILD DAY 0 06/27 DAY OFF 0 06/28 Buena Vista - CO 102 06/29 Gunnison - CO 85 06/30 Ouray - CO 101 07/1 Durango - CO 70 07/2 BUILD DAY 0 07/3 Cortez - CO 45 07/4 Teec Nos Pos - AZ 65 07/5 Kayenta - AZ 58 07/6 Tuba City - AZ 75 07/7 Desert View - AZ 78 07/8 Williams - AZ 81 07/9 Prescott - AZ 70 07/10 BUILD DAY 0 07/11 BUILD DAY 0 07/12 Wickenburg - AZ 58 07/13 Wenden - AZ 48 07/14 Blythe - CA 65 07/15 Brawley - CA 88 07/16 Julian - CA 68 07/17 El Cajon - CA 48 07/18 San Diego - CA 31 Total Mileage: 3513 **Subject to change

(7.) Woah...