Archive for June 2007

In the middle of emotional goodbyes, frantic packing and planning for the homeward journey, and contemplation over what comes next for many of us, a group of eight riders set out into the Mexican night on an overnight bus for Hermosillo. This medium sized city set in the desert is a solid 12 hours southeast of Tijuana, and is home to a regional office for ADMIC, one of the microcredit organizations we expect to partner with through Kiva. They made great efforts to welcome us and ensure our group ...

Yesterday came as a complete surprise to me. Since beginning to plan this trip, Mexico seem to be so far in the distance. There was always so much to do between organizing, planning and actually biking, that reaching Mexico just never felt like it would arrive. As we crossed the boarder into Tijuana emotions started to run free, there was so much excitement that we were there, there was sadness that a few of our riders couldn’t be there, there was puzzlement over what everyone ...

Well that's it for the official AOC part of the journey. We rode the final stretch into Tijuana this morning, had a drink, some lunch, relaxed a bit, and back to camp to see some of the first to leave off. Eight of us bought tickets for Hermosillo to go check out a microcredit group there to get a better feel for the on the ground workings of this cause we are supporting - 12 hours overnight tonight to get there! Liz (Agent Mom), Gaby ...

WHAT?!? We're HERE? We're HERE! Its hard to believe we've been on the road for over 5 weeks, but here we are! We've arrived safe and sound south of San Diego and just have a short hop to the border tomorrow and we've officially made it. We've had two MONSTER days to get all the way through LA and down this far, but it seems our hardcore training of the last month or so has left us up to the challenge. So...its almost over... Did our bodies ...

Here are some random photos. Internet will be off in 30 seconds, so no more explanation. Enjoy! peace and love Sean

Hello from Malibu!  Yes, we are almost to Mexico, but not before our LA event.  The details are as follows: Meet at the Santa Monica Youth hostel at noon.  The address is 1434 2nd St. Santa Monica, CA 90401 That's about it.  Hope to see all of our LA supporters out there.  Everything is going well on the road.  Thanks for your continued support. --Dylan

Just wanted to say hello from our lunch stop of the day, San Luis Obispo. We rocked out the first 40 miles or so by 1 in the afternoon so the crew has taken the opportunity to be productive - we split the group kind of randomly with one crowd heading to the library to work on an event for San Diego being organized by Mark and Laird largely, one pod hit the town with flyers and bracelets for an awareness blitz, and some headed ...