It is July 4, 2024, and I’m headed to Chicago to meet the Bike the US for MS team on another cross country journey.  The group started in Virginia mid-June; I’m starting late as my daughter just had a baby, an event definitely worth celebrating in person.  Daughter and baby are doing great, and I’m going to embarrass my daughter Ruth with just one picture (Ruth edit: not embarrassed, and adding one more picture for good measure!).  As before, Ruth is helping me with posting this blog; also as before, she will probably edit for content.

From Carbondale Illinois to San Francisco will be about 2200 miles and 42 days; we will arrive on August 16.  We are again raising money to support Multiple Sclerosis care, so I hope some of you reading this will consider contributing.  The first couple of weeks will be across the Great Plains, then heading over the Rocky Mountains just south of Denver.  I anticipate a difficult but amazing trip.

So…. read along in the posts below as the summer progresses.  If you are like me, some distraction from national events might be welcome.