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My ride is going very well, I have been blessed beyond belief to this point.

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After a long ride to Yorktown, VA (thanks Dr. Laura) I setup my bike an trailer and realized that I still had too much weight on the trailer, so I had to take some things out of the bag and send them back. After doing this about 4 or 5 times, I hopped onto my bike and rode to the Victory Monument in Historic Yorktown. At first I thought I would send my laptop back home as well, but nooo way!

After saying goodbye to Doc, I took the Colonial Parkway to Jamestown. It was a very nice ride. But just as it was getting dark I arrived in Jamestown I found out that the campgrounds had been sold and that they are no longer campgrounds. So I had to turn around and ride for about 6 or 7 more miles back to Williamsburg to find a hotel. I found Motel 6 and that is where I am right now, just about to go to sleep... after I make a few calls.

Tomorrow I am off to Glendale and beyond.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I said, "thank goodness for roaches", because there was a roach in my room and after I told the front desk, they gave me a room for free.

I have been posting to my "other" blog at: gottagowest.blogspot.com/
That blog is all my plan to ride across the United States. I will be leaving from Yorktown, VA this week planning on arriving in Astoria, OR in a couple of months. I will try to maintain both blogs, but the other one will be my primary blog site.

I am riding to raise funds and awareness for homeless teens and families. If you are interested in learning more, go to:
www.gowestusa.org

Peace

Tonight, while watching the Western Conference NBA Finals, I saw a quote that I use for "self motivation" on the wall of the San Antonio Spurs locker room. The quote is from Jacob Riis, a 19th century Journalist and Photographer who devoted his life to helping the impoverished.

Let me know what you think...

“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

Front Street, Harrisburg, PA. Sometime in the Fall.

Could this be the future of Exxon, Shell and Mobil?

Just asking...
 
This photo was taken last year in Virginia, just off I-95. Maybe you recognize it.

Just to let everyone know... "The Summer of Rob" has officially been renamed to "The Summer of Others". Giving, doing and helping, thats what its all about. I will keep you posted.

I am not sure, but I think its been decades since I've felt this kind of pain from working out. I can't believe that I signed up for this, but its for a good cause... so, the show must go on. 25 to 30 miles each day on the bike is a little more than I bargained for.

I just have to keep remembering, its for the kids.

Later.

Anyone interested in joining me, feel free to give me a call.

See, I told you!

I just want to say Hola, greetings from Mexico. I have to be really quick because it is dinner time and this particular Mexican Internet is extra slow and extra expensive. I have a lot of photos from the cruise that I will try and post later tonight. All is well!