The adventure continues!(June 2019)
Raise funds and awareness for Hope Station by sponsoring us BY THE MILE! Adventure enthusiast? Fitness-addict? Eco-friendly? Lover of giving kids an opportunity to BELONG and be LOVED? US TOO. We are a dad and daughter duo with a dual mission: complete the second half of our Mississippi River bike tour and raise funds for an amazing non-profit while pedaling! It's called The Torch Tour. We started in the summer of 2013 and clocked 1,000 miles in 21 days, from the headwaters in Itasca, MN down to St. Louis, MO. || In just two weeks, on June 15th, we will continue the adventure where we left off, cycling our way to the gulf of Mexico! We are asking you to JOIN THE ADVENTURE by donating to Hope Station. Many of you were our faithful sponsors during the last tour and we are shouting out our appreciation for continual and new support! The GOAL is $2476 which breaks down to $1/mile/person. This leg of the trip is 1,238 miles, and we're driven to double that number for the growth of Hope Station. We are excited to give YOU an opportunity to make every mile matter! The adventure begins(April, 2013)
In a few short months months, Mariah and I will be embarking on the adventure of a lifetime. We are setting out to ride our bicycles from the headwaters of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. We're calling it the TORCH tour because we will be Touring for ORphans in CHina. A cross-country trip like this has been a dream of ours for several years. We've taken several smaller treks around Minnesota and love the adventure of bike touring. Mariah (who loves to do everything :-) will graduate from Northwestern College a week before the trip, and this is one epic way to celebrate and see the country before diving into the next phase of life. So, we're putting our dreams together in a very practical way - a long distance bike tour and a fund raiser to help Hope Station, an orphan care ministry in Chengdu, China. We've been training and preparing for months now, and as we get closer to the trip it's fun to see our dreams become a reality! The Ride - The Mississippi River route is approximately 2,200 miles long. We plan to ride 60 miles each day and at that rate, it will take us about 40 days to reach the Gulf. We'll leave the Mississippi headwaters on May 26 and return on July 6. We will camp along the way and stay in people's homes whenever possible. We'll be carrying all of our food, clothing and gear for the 40 day adventure. What we hope to accomplish - Through the TORCH tour, we hope to raise awareness of the needs of orphans and raise $5,000 to help Hope Station set up a foster home for orphans in Chengdu, China. We'll be able to spread the word about the extensive needs of orphans in China with all the people we meet along the way. We also hope to speak to churches and community organizations, and pass out literature and information. We would be thrilled to have you join the journey! Mike and Mariah Wilder |
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$2,476 for Hope Station! That's $1/mile/biker |