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.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

July 7th - Day 3



After fixing my rear tire (twice) before breakfast, we headed out on a pleasant morning across wheat fields and climbed steadily away from Pendleton, seeing deer charging up ridges, and being watched by bulls. We "braved" a 1/3 mile gravel road for a scenic overlook, which you see behind me and my roommate (Jason, a 37 year old a couple years out of a marriage without children, whose dogs are staying with his parents while he's on this trip...sound familiar?).
Beautiful wooded gently rolling roads stretched along parts of the Oregon Trail with some nice historical markers and a wagon, which Lisa was particularly excited about.
Unfortunately, Lisa took a spill shortly thereafter. She suffered a concussion and a broken pelvis, but she's doing well and is "weight-bearing-as-tolerated" as they say in the business. This means she can walk as much as she can, limited only by discomfort. She's headed home tomorrow, but will ride again.
The rest of the ride to Baker City, Oregon was uneventful. We did cross the 45th Parallel (that's Jonathan from Australia, a major Pac Tour veteran), and had views of the Wallowas and the Blue Mountains.
My dad, Art, flew in from Seattle this afternoon and we're bunking together after a great dinner with a bunch of riders at the local brew pub in Baker City.
Oh, today was 100 miles.

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 7, 2009 at 9:06 PM

    Keep on going Jay! We wil be heading to the Wallowas in about one week. Pictures look beautiful.

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  2. UnknownJuly 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    Kudos to Arturo for making another flyby to visit his younster. How much range does that plane have?

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  3. deniJuly 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM

    Wow! I wish I could leap in my plane and stop by for dinner with you. Thanks for all the details and pictures. And, like Connie, I'm riding my bike to work this month too. Oh, wait, I work at home . . .

    Deni

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  4. Lisa WilliamsJuly 10, 2009 at 7:06 AM

    I hope Lori told you that she and I won the 45th parallel sprint - albeit in the van on the way to the hospital - but we won!! Lisa

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