It is 5:26am on the morning that we all travel to Anacortes, Washington to reunite for our prep day tomorrow, and day 1 of the journey on Friday. I am wide awake and there's no better way to describe my mental state right now than to say i feel like a child (or just me because i LOVE Christmas) on Christmas Eve. I can not believe that today is the day that our trip actually starts and in just 2 days we will legitimately begin mile 1 of 4000. It's completely surreal that the overwhelming phenomenon of riding across the United States of America for our veterans that we have prepped for and talked about for over a year ACTUALLY STARTS NOW. This task has been a discussion for so so long and just now became so so real.
I'm excited out of my mind and can not think of anything I've anticipated more in my entire life. When I realized I was laying here very much awake and it was definitely no later than 5:30am, i decided to text Mary Elmore to survey her thoughts. She was awake also (whoot whoot go time change) and confirmed that she's feeling the same overwhelmed-Christmas-Eve-like feelings too.
I got in touch with Peter Finger, a photographer in New Hampshire, yesterday. He sent me the attached photo and I was immediately reminded of how much fun we had this spring on training rides. Our positive working dynamic on rides together (yes all 8 of us + Karen sometimes!) was so strong just in training rides that I can't wait to see what we can do in the real deal.
Jacob also texted our flock yesterday saying "Can't believe I'm getting on the plane tomorrow for this ride. Kinda surreal. Anyone else freaking out?" (Sorry Jacob). We all feel this ridiculous wave of excitement... Here we gooooooooo!
Xoxo
JT
P. S. I bought a beach ball yesterday. My goal? Include this beach ball in a photo of the group at every state border.
I'm excited out of my mind and can not think of anything I've anticipated more in my entire life. When I realized I was laying here very much awake and it was definitely no later than 5:30am, i decided to text Mary Elmore to survey her thoughts. She was awake also (whoot whoot go time change) and confirmed that she's feeling the same overwhelmed-Christmas-Eve-like feelings too.
I got in touch with Peter Finger, a photographer in New Hampshire, yesterday. He sent me the attached photo and I was immediately reminded of how much fun we had this spring on training rides. Our positive working dynamic on rides together (yes all 8 of us + Karen sometimes!) was so strong just in training rides that I can't wait to see what we can do in the real deal.
Jacob also texted our flock yesterday saying "Can't believe I'm getting on the plane tomorrow for this ride. Kinda surreal. Anyone else freaking out?" (Sorry Jacob). We all feel this ridiculous wave of excitement... Here we gooooooooo!
Xoxo
JT
P. S. I bought a beach ball yesterday. My goal? Include this beach ball in a photo of the group at every state border.
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