The Tour and the Objective
On this trans-national bike tour, we will travel more than
Our goal is to do research and collect stories on bike cultures and movements in order disperse them and help the cross-fertilization of various movements by creating resources of information and promoting networking between towns, cities and countries.
jueves, 27 de marzo de 2008
Help us get to Quito by bicycle!
We hope you have enjoyed reading our blog, seeing our photos and learning about bike cultures in South America. We are writing you with a request, that we wish we didn´t have to make, but life brings surprises. We are currently in Cusco, Peru and have completed slightly over half our kilometers (3,700... with 3,300 more to go) in over half our budgeted time (4 months 1 week out of our 6 months). This has occured for various reasons, the two main being: 1) We have stayed longer than expected in certain locations in order to be able to complete our bike culture investigations and 2) we have experienced, unfortunately, unforeseen sicknesses that have forced us to stay longer than planned in various places. For these reasons, it is impossible to avoid the fact that our bike tour will last several weeks longer than anticipated. We now expect the earliest we can arrive in Quito (assuming we have no major illnesses along the way) will be June 16, rather than mid-May as we had anticipated, even as we plan to pick up the pace of our biking. Unfortunately we only budgeted for 6 months, and therefore it will be very difficult for us to find a way to survive this additional month, even as we live as cheaply as possible, cooking nearly all our meals, camping and staying in firestations. We fear the possibility of having to take a bus due to lack of funds. Therefore we decided to write to you, our dear friends, and ask for support! If just a few folks donate $50, or if 15 donate $20, or if 30 donate $10, it will allow Movement Por Un Cambio to continue as planned and arrive in Quito, Ecuador purely by bicycle! It will allow us to complete our investigations thoroughly so that we can share them with bike movements all over the world. It will allow us to bike on and encourage others to bike too. With your support, we can do it! So please, donate today. You can use PayPal on our website, http://www.movementporuncambio.blogpot.com/, or mail it to: Claire Stoscheck-207 W. Clinton St.-Ithaca, NY 14850. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, your support is much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Claire and Cristhian
P.S. It´s Claire´s 23rd birthday today! Why don´t you donate $23 for her 23rd?
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