The story of a 9-year-old boy and his dad as they cross the USA by bicycle.
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Friday, February 28, 2003
Loose ends
I worked my last FAA shift on Tuesday night and did my last stint as a Circuit Court arbitrator on Wednesday morning. I wrapped up the taxes and tied up some loose ends at the office on Thursday. We delivered some posterboards to Will's 3rd grade classes with USA maps with our route highlighted; his classmates seem to be excited about following along. We spoke again with Will's teacher, Ms. Battaglia, who has been very helpful. She will be able to send us some of Will's assignments by e-mail, and we recently signed up for a free eFax account. eFax gave us a phone number (1-720-920-0400) to receive faxes. They then convert the faxes into e-mail attachments and deliver them to our e-mail account. Dropping a short stack into a fax machine might be easier than scanning.
We've cancelled the "send-off" festivities for Sunday at O'Hare. I will be somewhat focused on the logistics of getting our trip started, and I don't think we really qualify as subjects of media interviews at this point. It will be fun to do these once we've accomplished something, but right now we're just a couple guys with big plans.
Friday, February 07, 2003
We're shipping!
We've finished packing our two boxes and shipped them to our friends in California via FedEx.   The original Bob trailer box (probably the sturdiest box I've ever seen) is full of trailer and camping equipment. The S&S box (which originally held the airline-checkable luggage that holds my single bike or most of our tandem) is full of bicycle wheels and assorted parts and gear. We'll bring 90% of the tandem with us in the luggage on UAL. When we get to California, we will pack our S&S luggage into the S&S box and FedEx it to Jacksonville to await our arrival. We'll throw out the Bob box in California rather than pay $17 to ship it to Florida. By the way, UPS ground was about 50% more than FedEx ground.
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