I have been training since February 2009 with the goal of completing a cycling tour from Portland, Oregon, to Tybee Island, Georgia in 30 days. The
PAC Tour group embarked on July 5th and we are traveling about 3600 miles and climbing approximately 124,000 cumulative feet. Please enjoy sharing my journey across America.
I am asking friends, family, and anybody else interested in following the trip to consider supporting this trip by making a donation to
Seattle Children's Hospital, Research, and Foundation. Art and Kristin Reeck have made Children's a priority in their philanthropic efforts over the years, and I laud their achievements. I encourage donations to the
Uncompensated Care Fund, to help pay the bills for children without insurance, or with inadequate insurance to pay their bills...lifting the financial and emotional burden from the children and their families. Indicate
Jay Across America as the occasion for the donation so we can total the money raised.
Hopefully, someday, we won't have to raise money for causes like this. For now, however, I thank you for your support.
The donation total will be updated occasionally...Consider a donation per mile or vertical foot climbed...and follow on the
GPS link, where you can see the route, the speed, the ride profile, the weather, and-yes-my heart rate.
Last weekend was a big one, with 100 miles and about 7000 feet of climbing on Saturday; 157 miles and almost 10,000 feet of climbing on Sunday, and 130 more miles on Monday. This is the ferry coming across the Willamette River at 7 in the morning on Memorial Day, to shuttle me across the river on my way from Portland to Eugene. 
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