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The little lovely Anne Taylor (RWT Class of '10: Pacific Route) sent me a message asking for some fundraising ideas. I went a bit overboard and sent this as a response. I figured I could share it with everyone:

Anyways, I definitely have a few fundraising ideas. First, I got another job (serving at Chili's) and picked up absolutely as many shifts as I could; I paid about $700 of the fundraising money myself.

Second, at that time, I had over 2,000 friends on facebook and therefore had a pretty… Continue

(I wrote this in August 2008. I just now found it on my computer.)

Life is always so much more than we expect it to be; of this, I am completely sure. I did not expect to be riding my bicycle three thousand, one hundred miles across the United States this summer. And when I did finally myself on the phone with my mother, over lunch with my best friend Tranica, and updating my Facebook profile with that incredible announcement, something inside of me twinged in disbelief: "Really, Jess? You actu… Continue

The past few weeks have proved incredibly encouraging and I have nothing but more and more excitement about leaving for this trip. I know my legs, and my butt, and my body, and everything else, are going to be incredibly sore, but I truly, idealistically, and wonderfully believe that this trip is going to be incredibly glorious. You. Me. A Bike. A cornfield. Jesus. What could be better? I, too, am excited about falling in love with Jesus and with everyone else on this trip. Holy. Cow.

A few wee… Continue