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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 5, 2011 at 2:20pm

Thanks for sharing, this is awesome

 

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Permalink Reply by Melissa on June 17, 2011 at 8:11am

Now we can follow these biker-builders on their route.  Here is the latest from one of the riders.  I'm posting this because they still need lots of support, so remember to give to a good cause.  The cost of their trip is covered.  Your contribution goes towards building homes. 

 

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Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't been emailing, it's hard to find the time/internet. My schedule usually goes something like: wake up, eat, bike, eat, fall asleep, repeat. Please excuse any typos, 9:30 is pretty late for me these days. Right now I am in Terre Haute, Indiana - a small town in the south of the state. Some updates:

- We dipped our wheels in VA beach and rode westward.

- First few days were low mileage, small hills and lots of farms.

- We spent two days building with Habitat for Humanity in Charlottesville and put up floors and walls for the second story of a home.

 

  - We hit the Appalachians with 80+ miles of climbing up the Blue Ridge Mountains. The next 3 days were pretty tough as we went up and down more mountain tops, but the views and speedy descents made it all worth it.

- After passing through beautiful West Virginia, we arrived in my home state of Ohio. I tried to explain to my group members that the steep hills of southern Ohio is a a very different place than the flat northern regions I call home.

- We arrived in Cincinnati and had a great day building with the local Habitat for Humanity Affiliate, where I got to spend the day climbing and building scaffolding.

- Indiana has proved to be a mostly flat (awesome) state.

 

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Natan

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