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.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Sunday June 14



Dea Collins rode into Roseburg (about 40 miles from camp) with me in the morning, where we met Robb Collins...and then joined up with the Roseburg Fire Department in their station for a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, bacon, biscuits, bacon, juice, and bacon! We met Josh, the battalion chief, the night before at dinner...and he kindly invited us in for some sustenance. Then we continued to wind south to Canyonville, where we met Robb for some burgers and fries. Then Robb jumped on the bike...only a few weeks after surgery for a broken collar bone, and rode up, up, and up over the mountains for 50 miles at a brisk pace in some beautiful sunshine until we descended into the town (I think) of trail. I brought it on home to Medford for a total of 147 miles and 8500 feet of climbing (no GPS data for the whole ride as I ran out of juice).
Sunday was a solo effort out to Applegate Lake...about 95ish miles...with a bonk effect for the last 50. Ugh. At least it was a beautiful day for a while...bit of rain, wind, and dark clouds for the last 25 miles. Look - another covered bridge!
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