Students reveal the realities of riding a bike cross-country

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The half-dozen West Seattle students (profiled here with video last month) who are currently on “An Inconvenient Ride” now have “trip log” diary-style posts (read them here) on the environmental-awareness trip’s official website, and the few we grazed are rather honest, occasionally raw tales of the tough road trip they’ve taken on. Their photo gallery is even more up to date (find it here). The group is in Arizona this morning (the route is detailed here), and will then head up through California and Oregon en route to a slated arrival back in Seattle on Earth Day, April 22, for the “Global to Local” benefit at Benaroya Hall.

Jacob\'s mom April 13, 2008 (8:40 pm)

This has been a remarkable experience for my son. It has been difficult at times (as indicated by the journal entries) but through this “immersion” he is learning to adapt, strategize and move on. I hear from him every night, but being a teenager the call is only about 5 minutes and he is pretty worn-out and distracted (I always hear boisterous conversations in the background). It has certainly been more work than what he was thinking (ah, youth!) but about what we (his parents) were expecting. Now, if only he could get rid of the cold that has been dogging him the last three days….

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