We’ve had presentations and events from San Jose to Twin Cities, see below for the upcoming events! CHICAGO: 7/25 – RSVP here Join us for a celebration at the La Colombe cafe in Near West Side (955 West Randolph Street, near N Morgan Street, Chicago, IL) with the Bucknell Alumni Club of Chicago from 7-9pm. Drinks provided. CLEVELAND: 7/30 - stay tuned for…
We’re ending our Pedal for Purpose cross-country cycling trip in NYC! Join us at the beautiful La Colombe cafe in Noho and help celebrate this 3,200+ mile journey as they finish just hours before. SIGN UP HERE: http://pedalforpurposenyc.eventbrite.com/ Tickets are $25 each, but if you catch the early bird then you’re only due for $20 (by 7/15). Please check out…
Molly over here, making a guest post on the Pedal for Purpose tour blog. As the Executive Director of BAP it brings me unbelievable pleasure to have passionate, driven, and unbelievably smart delegates on the road representing the organizations. These students aren’t just capable or enthusiastic they truly are inspiring in and of themselves. Because, if you think about it,…
Just arrived in Kampala late last night and we’re en route to Gulu tomorrow morning! More details to come, but here’s a short snippet of what we’ll be doing over the course of the next month… -175 bicycles to be distributed among four different communities -800 surveys (both applications and evaluations) will be disseminated. An effort led by Brian Thiede,…
Molly over here giving a recap of our final week of the trip. It’s now Wednesday 9/12 and I owe an update to summarize DC, NYC, and Boston. So here goes… We made our way from Philadelphia to Washington, DC on Wednesday 9/5. The cyclists got to ride through the beautiful hills of MD (including some wonderful sunflower fields) while…
We just left Philadelphia and I can speak first-hand to say that it’s actually not always sunny in Philadelphia. We learned this the hard way as we hit rain and had to cancel our ride throughout Manayunk that was set for Monday 9/3. But that didn’t stop us from having an enjoyable time seeing as we continued our event at…
We’ve finally made it back to the east coast and are very happy to report we had a weekend at “home” at Bucknell University. Our trip isn’t finished yet as we still have another week till we reach Boston. On Friday we hosted a wine & cheese reception at Cherry Alley Cafe for faculty/staff at Bucknell as well as community…
Molly here and in this post I want to give you a walk through of what the behind the scenes are like on this coast to coast trip. As some indication of what a typical day is like, I’m beginning this blog post at 1:15am on (technically) Wednesday 8/29. We just switched time zones so it’s kind of feels more…
If for nothing else, this trip is full of surprises. Moments when we realize we’re on the wrong road going the opposite direction, sudden flat tires with no repair materials nearby, and, riders we can’t find in a no-service zone. That makes us build in the need for flexibility, resilience, and an everlasting amount of patience (which, of course, is…
We left Denver yesterday to arrive in Lamar, CO. At an altitude of 3,200 ft it doesn’t feel like it’s Colorado here. With flat land and no mountains as a backdrop it feels more like Kansas, where we’re about to enter into. Even though we don’t have the beautiful mountains surrounding us I’m still kind of happy. I fell in…