Bicycling from Cleveland, Ohio to Ushuaia, Argentina to Support Melanoma Research and Awareness
[From the Times-Leader of Martins Ferry, Ohio.]
By PATRICIA GRAHAM
T-L Lifestyles Editor
WHILE MANY sons and daughters will be traveling across town or even across a state or two to pay tribute to their fathers today, one Adena native has a slightly longer trip in mind.
Kevin Madzia, Adena native and Pittsburgh resident, will be honoring his father, [...]
A group of us got started promptly, a little after 6:00am. We left the University via the Burke-Gillman Trail, which we followed for a few miles to the Wallingford neighborhood. After breakfast at a local church, we went down to Gasworks Park to dip our rear wheels into Puget Sound for the official start of [...]
I got out of bed around 8:00am today and had the usual breakfast once again. I did a load of laundry, the stuff I had used since I got to Seattle. I re-packed the bags, and loaded them and the bike into Phil’s Ford Explorer again. We headed out a little after noon.
Today’s fun involved [...]
Slept until 10:00am today. After another good yogurt and granola breakfast, we headed over to hang out at the Redmond Town Center. We walked their dog Hasta around the bike trail nearby, then I got some ice cream at the Cold Stone Creamery. I checked out the local REI store and picked up some chamois [...]
Got out of bed at 8:00am, relatively early considering the activities of the previous two days. Had some granola and yogurt, and a banana for breakfast.
This afternoon, Phil, Tracy, and I spent the afternoon as Seattle tourists, having a walking lunch through the many stands of the Seattle Public Market. I had a hombow (a [...]
I got about two hours of sleep the night before my flight, after working on three different schemes for packing all of my gear. Check-in and the flight itself was uneventful, and we landed in Seattle right on schedule at 11:30. My friend Phil was already waiting to pick me up at the baggage [...]
The MS 150 is a two-day, 150-mile bicycle tour from Cranberry, PA to Conneaut, OH. Proceeds from this annual event benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The tour of 2004 was held on June 12-13.
The following article about the Coast-to-Coast bicycle tour appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04153/324667.stm
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