This is the summer of Texas 4000! Texas 4000 is a non-profit student organization from the University of Texas that is dedicated to fighting cancer by sharing hope, knowledge, and charity across North America through a 4,500 mile bicycle ride from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. I will be spending 70 days with 45 of my closest friends pedaling through deserts, mountains, cities, and everything in between. We will sleep in schools, homes, campsites, anything that's free. The ride is the eye catcher but the most important part of Texas 4000 is what we do when we are off our bike. As a team, we raise money for cancer research and give programs throughout the ride spreading the latest information in cancer prevention and research. I will be trying to post pictures, videos, daily comments on this blog, but I will also be updating my journal on www.texas4000.org.

-2 Days

T-minus 2 day until the day of departure. This means meetings, guest speakers, meetings, wall ball, and just a lot of time at the CPE in general. Today was a nice change from the windowless classrooms as we ventured to a nearby park to practice using our camping equipment and take inventory. We set up our tents in record time then with the guidance of alumni John Fitch we prepared a typical dinner meal of vegetarian spaghetti. Yum!

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