Bike Cards!

My wonderful, wonderful mother hand-carved (hand-carved!!) a bicycle stamp and has been making cards to help with my fundraising. What a great mom :)

Check out her blog and Etsy shop! She's pretty cool. She also has a post about these kick-ass cards and you can buy them on her Etsy.

Thanks for reading!

Fundraising

As you may know, I will be using my adventure across Africa as a chance to raise funds for the Tour d’Afrique Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting the bicycle as a means of improving quality of life, especially in underdeveloped countries. This is primarily achieved through the donation of bicycles to community development and health care workers. Donation ceremonies are held along our tour route across the continent. My goal is to raise funds for 10 bicycles ($150 USD each, $165 CAN) – one for each country I visit.

Countries visited include:

·        Egypt

·        Sudan

·        Ethiopia

·        Kenya

·        Tanzania

·        Malawi

·        Zambia

·        Botswana

·        Namibia

·        South Africa

Mission of the TDA Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to promote the use of the bicycle as a means of transport and income generation.  This is primarily accomplished through bike donations to health workers and orphanages along the route in Africa, though donations are also made on routes in India and North America.  A bike donated to a health worker in Africa allows them to reach up to five times as many patients in a day as they would without a bike.

If you would like to help me reach my goal please click on the donate button on the right. Any amount would help a lot! If you would like to donate a whole bike make sure to send me your mailing address so I can send you a postcard from my trip. I know that is a lot to swing, but teaming up to donate a bike with several friends absolutely counts for a postcard! 

Click here for more information on the TDA Foundation. Thanks for your support!

Off to Africa!

Hi all!

I am slowly preparing for my fast approaching wild adventure - cycling across Africa from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa with the Tour d'Afrique. I will be visiting 10 countries and covering 12,000 km over the span of 4 months (January to May)... What did I get myself into?! My feelings about this fluctuate from so crazy excited that I can't stand still to so so terrified and nervous. Either way it's always on my mind. I swear, I can't talk about anything else - my family must be getting sick of it! 

Since I will be gone for four months with uncertain communications to home I figured a blog would be a good bet. My writing is pretty terrible but I will do my best! I'll post when I can and try to figure out how to work this blog. Please leave me comments while I'm away, I bet I will be getting homesick and will love to hear from everyone!

I should have a post about the fundraising I am doing as a part of my ride soon. 

Well, first post is up! I doubt I will post very much before I leave but hopefully I will be good about writing regularly while I am there. Cheers, thanks for reading :)