The story of a 9-year-old boy and his dad as they cross the USA by bicycle.
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Sunday, January 26, 2003
Super Bowl Sunday
First of all, good luck to NFL MVP and fellow St. Joe's Prep (Phila., Pa.) graduate Rich Gannon of the Oakland Raiders!
We continue to prepare for our departure in five weeks. We have packed up our "Bob" trailer and about 20 pounds of camping equipment into the original Bob box. We will pack up our wheels in another box and ship them to our friends in the LA area. Then we will disassemble our tandem bicycle enough to fit into a standard airline suitcase, which we will check on our flight to California.
Our relationships with our charities are shaping up nicely. St. Anne's Project Hope is excited to be working with us. We have admired the work they do for years. And the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative is talking about planning a big send-off for us at O'Hare Field, complete with TV interviews and such! Each of these charities is deserving of a look. If you like what you see, think about sharing a little with them.
We bought a new Fujitsu laptop computer.  It is 2.2 lbs., which compares quite favorably to the 8.2 lb. clunker we were planning to bring. Lugging an extra 6 lbs. for 3,500 miles would've added up to alot of work. It would've been especially noticeable during that stretch out west where we'll climb from 230 feet below sea level to 8,230 feet above! We're still working on connecting the laptop to our GPS, which we must do every couple weeks during the trip to load the enormous amount of data into the GPS for the upcoming stretch. The "serial to USB" adapter setup is not as easy as it sounds! This new computer also has built in wireless networking hardware, and it automatically searches for a wireless network in the area. We have a wireless network at home, and have found one at work. As these are becoming more popular, we hope to find them every so often on the road, maybe at libraries, hospitals and office buildings where we can get an internet connection for a few minutes to upload our journals and pictures. If not, we'll rely on the old standard telephone connection at hotels every few days. We can also update this web site from our Sprint cell phone (but no pictures that way).
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