Bill and Amarins Harrison and their three children are on a lengthy family vacation. They plan on riding their custom-made bicycle to Florida, and thence to Alaska and back again:
http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/?p=1834 via Instapundit
They departed Renfro Valley on Saturday. Their immediate destination is Oak Ridge, and then on to the Atlantic Coast by way of the Carolinas. From there, they’ll travel to Florida, head to the Southwest by way of the Southeast (hoping to spend the winter months peddling through warmer environs) and will eventually travel up the Pacific Coast to Alaska.
They figure on arriving in Alaska in August 2010. They’ll stay there for one year, then head back to Renfro Valley, arriving back home sometime in late 2012....
“Risk-taking is what made this country great,” he says. “It wasn’t politics or religion. It was about risking to go around the next bend in the river or over the next mountain. If we still took those risks today, this would be a better world.”
http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/?p=1834 via Instapundit
Man, now I want to go on a bike trip too.
Seems hard on the kids.
I would like to leave a comment regarding the one left by older than you,on Aug. the 9t at 11:08 am. I can`t understand how people like you can go to sleep at night.After the comment you made about this family,and their precious children. Evidently you do not have a family,and from your attitude it is good that you don`t. I cannot believe that you have been following this story and looked into the faces of these precious children,because if you had,unless you are some kind of a monster,there is no way that you could make that remark,about hoping they get ran over by a semi. It is evil heartless people like you that have got this country into the mess it is in. People that care for nothing or no one but yourself.I personally go to sleep praying for this family. That the Lord will keep them safe,through the night and supply their needs for the coming day. I am so disgusted and angry at the comment you made that my hands are shaking. I can just imagine you,some big slob of a person sitting in slimy pig pin of a house,to lazy to even have dreams to follow,let alone have the ambition to follow them.And all you can do is get on here and say something that you think might impress someone. Well I doubt there are many people that you impressed,unless it someone like yourself,and you kind of people don`t even deserve to have your opinion heard.I may never get to comment on here again,but at least I have made my feelings known,and hope there are others out there that feel the same
Their success is almost complete. Obviously, all of the commenting cretins with such negative attitudes have never attempted any type long-distance bicycling endeavor. They probably couldn't even walk to the corner market. This family has shown the world what positive attitude really means. If you live anywhere along their route, get out and support them, both morally AND financially.