When we get older, journals, notes, blogs, real letters, and anything permanent help us remember. These things also help us inform. So for me, this is a blog of remembrance. For others, it will be a blog of information which some will follow and some will choose not..
As I begin, my first blogs will be all about preparing for and experiencing a cross-country bike ride from Anacortes, Washington to Old Orchard Beach, Maine. I've done this trip before and came away saying, "This is too good to do only one time." A friend of mine, who you'll meet later in this blog, mentioned that he would like to do a ride across America as well. This prompted me to quickly volunteer for my second trip. Therefore, these blogs will hopefully take you from sea to shining sea with a motley crew of cyclists headed to Maine!
My blog from the 2009 ride was 4295miles.blogspot.com. It became a book, not a real book but an online book, which can be found on Amazon if you ever happen to be interested. One of my favorite parts of the blog were the comments I received from day to day. I also received reviews and comments on Amazon. I only received one negative comment on Amazon from Bookworm. You can read it for yourself:
Total waste of money. Very little substance - book is full blog entries, bicycling quotes, and worst of all, religious sermons, bible quotes, etc. on every page. Why not just buy a bible instead of this trash. Author sums up his bicycling day with one to two sentences of actual biking - the rest is garbage. Wouldn't recommend this book if it was free. If you're born again and want a sermon, give it a try.
It was, in all fairness, one of the best reviews I received. Why was that? Because every reason Bookworm had for disliking the book is a reason I had for writing it. It was a confirmation that I had accomplished part of my reason for publishing 4295 Miles. With that said, I will give a disclaimer to anyone who is thinking about going with us via the blog:
This site, its blogs, and doodles will contain the following: bicycle quotes, spiritual wisdom from Scriptures, Bible verses, the Gospel, portions of praise and worship music, and stories from along the way. Therefore, if you don't care to read anything about Jesus, God's Word, parables, Bible history, Proverbs, personal testimonies, and quotes, you may want to stop reading here.
Sure, I'd like to have you follow along but I won't be offended if you don't. It's going to be a great adventure and I'd like for you to go with us. It's going to be a great experience! Hope you'll ride with us all the way to Maine . . . let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...
Thanks, Bookworm (I really mean that.)
Quite the compliment from BookWorm! Those are just a few of the MANY reasons you are so loved! Happy trails to you!
ReplyDeleteI think you're taking the wrong tact here - you need to make people scared to miss these updates, so very TERRIFIED to miss them, that you have thousands, nay, MILLIONS of people hanging on your every word. Plus, I heard there's gonna be a huge giveaway during this trip, and I'm hoping it's a discontinued Star Wars Cloud City Lego set, which you can only find now on ebay for like $700.
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