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This is a video Sara Groves shared during the benefits concert held for the Ride:Well Tour and Blood:Water Mission in Tyler, TX last week. Its' message is too powerful for me not to pass on to all of you. That said, turn your volume up and enjoy :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSdP6PqsbJY

You know you're a cross-country cyclist when...

1) you start to think you look good in spandex
2) you get really excited when you see a good tree and you start calling it a bathroom
3) you despise bar-shaped food
4) your topic of conversation often revolves around what color your pee is
5) someone asks how you are doing, and it is completely acceptable to answer "Good, except my crotch hurts
a little"
6) your limbs don't always bend like you think they are going to
7) you start counting road-ki… Continue

Where to start? We're already closing in on our halfway point of the tour and I have yet to blog about any of my experiences, reflections or lessons learned during the past three weeks (of which there are many). Apologies to those who I'd promised to keep better informed of my journey.. please understand that you have not been forgotten, but that time and energy have been scarce to do so! At a quick glance I could summarize our progress by listing that we have been in 4 states, crossed 3 mountai… Continue

I was out at dinner a few weeks ago when I found out that Lawrence Fishburne is directing a movie based on one of my favorite books, the Alchemist. I wanted to write a post describing how this book was a good place to begin the telling of my story, but for whatever reason, I've hesitated to do so. And now for whatever reason, I feel as though it's as good a time as any to speak on it.

Some would say this book isn't for everyone. I disagree, which is not to say that I think the book is for every… Continue