Oh, the places we'll go!

Hey everyone!

As I type there is about 28" of snow on the ground outside my dorm room in NY - I hope everybody in the area has stayed warm and dry as Nemo wreaked havoc!

Well, as you know Annamaria and I have not yet been able to order our bikes - we are planning on posting videos or photos of rides we take, how long they are, etc. However, since neither one of us has the required $1,000 for our bikes(ahem!), I'll fill you in on the details of our route for the summer instead.

We said in our first post that our route takes us from Providence, RI to San Fransisco, CA (from here on out it is referred to as P2C) - just one of 8 routes crossing the entire country. There is a Southern route (Florida to California), a Central route (Virginia to Oregon), a Northern route (New Hampshire to British Columbia) and five other routes in between. All national routes begin on the East Coast in the beginning of the summer and finish somewhere on the West Coast at the end. For those busy cyclists who don't have the time in the summer that us college students have, there is the Capital Ride - a route that takes just two weeks in July to help out from Richmond, VA to Philadelphia, PA, and a week long Chris Weber Memorial Route in the winter; starting in Orlando and finishing in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, this ride is for Bike&Build alumni only and is dedicated to the memory of 2005 trip leader Chris Weber who passed away in 2007.

P2C crosses 17 states, going west through New England and climbing the Rockies to end up on the beach in northern California. Here is a full look at our itinerary:

You may say "Hey! They're only building for 14 out of 82 days on this trip!". That is completely true. However, on the days that we aren't building houses, we are going to be cycling through America raising money and awareness for the affordable houses we build, and we might throw in some cycling safety as well.

In the future, I will be posting information on various towns we will be building in or riding through, and what we plan to do for the community. If anyone has a particular town they would like to know more about, tell us!

More from us soon,
Kathryn