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RIDE WELL FOLKS!
Hey
Am Gregg.
Last year, I had the great opportunity to travel from Kenya through London to Chicago and finally landed in Nashville, with an intention of proceeding to California for the RWT.
We had all sorts of fun, from the Ride:Well band, and Ride:Well show... everything. For me, it was a great opportunity to see the USA by bike, traversing over 10 states meeting all sorts of people.
Within that fun, I learnt a lot. I discovered my real passion and the soul. I admit it was not easy at all, being in a foreign country, new culture everyday, food, new roads and sunscreen. I remember the times I had to jump into the support van and save myself from the sun. By the end of the ride, I was blacker that coal, having attracted all sorts of heat and light.
Everything looked bigger than life, the apples, the prawns and chicken breasts. I blogged like I never did in my life. Funny, eccentric, unresolved and at times, contentious. However, sharing my story with the fellow bikers and taking time to listen to what America feels about Africa brought within me new passion to love and serve mankind.
I came back to start JIJUE 1 Million campaign (www.jijue.org), a shared vision to systematically efforts to make a tangible contribution towards preventing further HIV infections among Kenyan youth, by ensuring 1 Million Kenyan youth take a HIV test and safeguard themselves from infection.
In partnership with Blood:Water Mission, we have so far seen over 14,800 youth take the HIV test and join the grassroots movement of preventing further HIV infections.
Am excited that you got the opportunity to ride across America, for the 15 of us who did it last year, ours are now changed lives. I will follow your story!
Am Gregg.
Last year, I had the great opportunity to travel from Kenya through London to Chicago and finally landed in Nashville, with an intention of proceeding to California for the RWT.
We had all sorts of fun, from the Ride:Well band, and Ride:Well show... everything. For me, it was a great opportunity to see the USA by bike, traversing over 10 states meeting all sorts of people.
Within that fun, I learnt a lot. I discovered my real passion and the soul. I admit it was not easy at all, being in a foreign country, new culture everyday, food, new roads and sunscreen. I remember the times I had to jump into the support van and save myself from the sun. By the end of the ride, I was blacker that coal, having attracted all sorts of heat and light.
Everything looked bigger than life, the apples, the prawns and chicken breasts. I blogged like I never did in my life. Funny, eccentric, unresolved and at times, contentious. However, sharing my story with the fellow bikers and taking time to listen to what America feels about Africa brought within me new passion to love and serve mankind.
I came back to start JIJUE 1 Million campaign (www.jijue.org), a shared vision to systematically efforts to make a tangible contribution towards preventing further HIV infections among Kenyan youth, by ensuring 1 Million Kenyan youth take a HIV test and safeguard themselves from infection.
In partnership with Blood:Water Mission, we have so far seen over 14,800 youth take the HIV test and join the grassroots movement of preventing further HIV infections.
Am excited that you got the opportunity to ride across America, for the 15 of us who did it last year, ours are now changed lives. I will follow your story!
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Comment by Erik Pelttari on May 20, 2009 at 9:00pm - Thanks Gregg! I'm excited to see what will happen to us this summer.
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