So what exactly do we do each day?

I thought I'd try to shed light on that question and tell everyone exactly what our schedules look like each day... A photojournal of sorts. :o)

5am: Wake up! (Sometimes it's 4am instead, if there's a long day or a hot day. Sorry, no pictures to show our morning grogginess)
5-5:45am: Wash up, get changed into bike clothes (important: put on your chamois butter), and get your bags out ASAP
5:45-6:30: Eat breakfast. Do morning chores, i.e., packing the trailer with bags, filling up water/gatorade and food coolers, cleaning up the host site, putting out breakfast.


6:30: Route meeting! Get queue sheets to find out the turns for the day's ride, and decide on when the water/lunch stops will be.

6:30-7am: Stretch, pump up tires, get ready to go
7am: Hit the road!


~9am: Water break! Snack time.
~12pm: 2nd water break/lunch

All throughout the ride: Fix flats, find good picture spots and spots for contemplation, enjoy the ride with groups or alone--whatever suits your fancy that day



~2-5pm: Arrive at host site, crash on the floor for a bit, then sit around and eat + drink water like crazy. Stretch. PUSUC (Push-up sit-up club... we were better about doing it at the beginning).


Until dinner: Laundry chore group finds a local laundromat and takes it over to do laundry for 30 people. Shopping chore group goes shopping with the van, usually to Wal-mart, or the local grocery store. Dinner chore group concocts something delicious for us to eat. (Though on our favorite days, our hosts are around to chat with and graciously provide us with nourishment for the day.)

6pm: Dinner!
7-9:30pm: Search for wireless internet so we can email our friends and families and update our blogs. Read, chat, hang out, watch thunderstorms, go for a walk, get ice cream... etc.

9:30pm: Lights out! (or for the late night folks, like myself, time to get cracking on writing in my journal and doing my daily measurements of my muscles)

Every Thursday: Mail day! One of our favorite times of the week. And probably the only thing that happens every week without fail.



Every Friday: Town Hall Meeting. Discuss any issues that have come up with the group


Every Tuesday: Affordable housing curriculum. 3-4 people present on topics each time related to the history of affordable housing, different kinds of nonprofit or governmental housing organizations, etc.

Our white board:


Our trusty trailer & van:


The awesome presentation that we do for host sites every now and then, called Bodies in Motion
(Stay on the lookout for a similar video featuring the cast of our NC2SD trip =)

In other awesome news, we reached the California state line today!! I was tearful this morning as we left, because I just couldn't believe it, and it's still sinking in that we made it this far. Wish us luck in our last few days, because they'll be long, HOT ones through the Sonora Desert. Our dive into the San Diego ocean will be well-earned by then... Stay tuned!