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.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Day 27 - to Greenville, AL to Eufaula, AL





We awoke to thunder, lightning, and a complete deluge, which cleared up right as we finished with breakfast. Today proved to be another day of riding through small rolling hills lined with soybeans, churches, chicken farms ("Disease free"), and almost-defunct towns. The chicken-trucks were out in force today, blasting us with their characteristic smell - which gives me flashbacks to research I did with pigs in college (the pigs were the subjects, not colleagues).
We rode through the town of Honoraville, Alabama, and took pictures in honor of Honora, the hammer. Honoraville may be a secret source of rusted out Mustang cars from every single year of production.
The rains arrived in force at mile 70, but disappeared within about 10 minutes, just in time for a tasty lunch of toasted cheese sandwich and ground beef. The afternoon ride in proved heavenly, with rollers that you could roll over, a bit of a tailwind, and a threatening storm for inspiration. I motored along at 22-27 mph in these conditions, and was picked up a few miles from the hotel by Doug and Jeanine, who were hammering to avoid the storm. I hopped on the train for the 29-35 mph race into the hotel, where we rapidly cleaned and lubed the bikes before another downpour replete with thunder and lightning arrived.
A notable sign today: Wilson's Welding and Erection Co.
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