Re-emerging Dream?

Well I stopped blogging after the phone call. The phone call confirmed what I really did not want to happen, which was I would not be able to make the trip to Portland on my bicycle. Then, I thought, I would just take my 1966 Volkswagen Beetle to Portland and find a job there. However, my brakes needed work and my mechanic was having trouble with them. Eventually, I decided I needed to end my idea of going to Portland and start looking for a job. I didn't have a lease or any job leads so I decided to see if I could work at the camp I worked at in 2006. Luckily, my old boss took me on and it was a blast working there! Today, 7/30/2009, I just received news that I can go on a cross country bicycle tour. :) I am extremely excited and am already rethinking me trip. I now know what I need to prepare, how much money I should have saved and other important details. I am unsure when I will do a long bicycle tour but I am very helpful now! Until a later date.

The Beginnings

Today is May 24, 2009 and I am, tentatively, leaving on my bicycle tour this Friday, Saturday or Sunday.  I am not sure which day I will leave because I still have to finish moving everything into storage  

Many co-workers and friends have asked me why I want to do this.  Thus I thought I would use this first blog to explain why I want to bicycle to Portland, OR.  Last summer I started bicycling a lot and really enjoyed it.  I, eventually, rode to Eagle, NE which was about a 20 mile ride.  I felt so accomplished after that ride.  Then I studied abroad that summer in Moscow, Russia and really missed, among other things, my bicycle.  While in Moscow I had some free time and then I decided that the next summer, aka this summer, I would bicycle all summer.  I then, though, saw an opportunity with the Defense Intelligence Agency for an internship.  I applied and did not get it and that, then, solidified my decision to bicycle.  

Additionally, I was really disenfranchised with the United States after coming back from Russia.  Thus I want to do this tour because: I have had too many people tell me I can't do it, I want to see America, I love to bike, and its a goal I have had since last summer!

Now I have to wait for one phone call to make or break the idea!