Author: Rich

It’s time. After months of planning, dreaming, wondering if it could really happen–today the journey begins. We’ll be in Lake Itasca State Park at about 8:00 am. We’ll speak to the press, take some cheesy photos, and make last-minute preparations. At about 9:00 am (CT) we’ll be off. Thanks for joing in, for following along, […]

Today’s marked by contrasts. I’m looking forward … to tomorrow and the start of a big adventure. In twenty-four hours we’ll depart from Lake Itasca, Mn. A 1500-mile journey of hope will be underway. But this is also a somber anniversary. I’m looking back … to a day that changed the world, a day known […]

I don’t normally publish other people’s writing. Lots of other folks write better stuff than I do, but I just haven’t gotten around to getting others to write for my blogs. However, last week I received a letter from my brother. That’s a rare occurance–we don’t write letters to each other. And this one was […]

It’s really happening. The trailer’s packed, the training’s completed. Time for the journey to begin. I wonder how it’s going to come together. With so many moving parts, we just can’t know what the finished product will look like. But we keep getting this one question: what’s happening with the speaking engagements? Frankly, that part […]

On Labor Day we did one of the really challenging climbs in Fort Collins–the road to Horsetooth Reservoir. I tried–and failed–several times before I made this climb successfully a couple of years ago. It’s still hard, but now I can do it pretty routinely. I thought you might enjoy the scenery and the hand cyclist’s […]

I want to change the world. Don’t you? Have you ever thought you’d like to do something really big, make a truly significant impact on some important problem? And if you’re like me, you look at issues like war and poverty and human trafficking and see overwhelming numbers. And you’re only one person with limited […]