It's coming together! (and make a guess!)

So, as of yesterday I officially reached the $4000 fundraising mark, and I've been absolutely blown away by eveyone's generosity and I have to extend a HUGE thank you to all of you who have helped me participate in this. I can't thank you enough. I wouldn't have been able to do this on my own. So thank you thank you!

The countdown of when I leave is now 12 days! And after trips to various bike stores, organizing travel supplies, and being on hold with Delta airlines trying to solve the problem of my flight being changed...I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The big thing to do now is to figure out a creative way to make my laundry stand out from everyone else's in a big pile of 30 people's laundry! With some things I've really tried to get bright or original colors...but bike shorts haven't branched out much in the selection that's out there. There's just a whole lot of black. And socks? Can you imagine sorting 30 people's socks? I guess I'll believe it when I see it.

So the things that I've heard the most from people giving me advice when they hear that I'll be biking in the south in the middle of the summer are two things:

1) Drink a lot of water, and
2) Wear a lot of sunscreen.

And trust me, I'll be the first to stress the importance of number two. I think the worst pain I've ever felt in my life has been from some REALLY bad sunburns. Those can make you feel miserable. So, I know that I'm going to be piling on the sunscreen any chance I get and I thought it could be kind of fun to make a little guessing game competition out of this. You all probably remember the jars of jelly beans that your teacher would pass around for the kids to guess the number of how many are in the jar. Well, for this one you can guess how many bottles of sunscreen I will go through spending two and a half months in the sun! (maybe not as cool as the jelly beans, because I can't offer you the jar of candy as your prize...but I can promise that the winner will get something that I will pick up on my trip just for this prize!)

So you can reply to this post with your guess, or you can shoot me an email. Just be sure to put your name if you reply to this post so I know who you are. When I first thought about this I was just curious how many bottles I could possibly go through, and thought it would be fun to involve more people. So guess away!

funnyyy

this was way more fun to watch than write papers.

Go to this link and watch the video at the bottom of the page. :)

http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/cb.php