Bike Trip Across America

We are Jim and Kate, a father and daughter from the Boston area. On March 4th, 2006, we will be embarking on a bike ride across the United States from San Diego to the east coast to raise money for the Jimmy Fund. We're so excited about this trip, and we can't wait to use this site to share our adventures from the road with you!

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I'm an 18-year old high school graduate taking a "gap year" before college, and my dad is a psychiatric social worker at Westwood Lodge Hospital. We live in Scituate, MA with my mom, Lynne, and my younger sister, Elizabeth, without whose support this trip would not be possible.

For every mile we ride this spring, we are collecting pledges to raise money for the Jimmy Fund.

The Jimmy Fund is a Boston-based organization that: "supports the fight against cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, helping to raise the chances of survival for children and adults with cancer around the world." (jimmyfund.org).

 

The Jimmy Fund's largest single annual fundraiser is the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC), a bike ride across the state of Massachusetts. We have registered as "virtual riders" in the PMC, meaning that we are riding to support the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Institute, but taking an alternate route... across the United States of America!

 

Please consider pledging to this worthy cause! Our goal is to raise $100,000, and even a small pledge can make a big difference. To donate, please visit our PMC profile to pledge in our name. If clicking on the link doesn't work, type the following address into your web browser address bar: "www.pmc.org/mypmc/profiles.asp?Section=story&eGiftID=KS0140"

 

Click here to learn more about the Jimmy Fund, or here for additional information about the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute.. Thank you for your support!

Monday, May 08, 2006

Housekeeping

Hi again from Kate and Jim's friend Eliot, doing some of the housekeeping chores for the weblog on their behalf. Some people are having trouble using the link above to go to the Pan-Mass. Challenge site to donate to the Jimmy Fund. Clicking on the link works for me, but if it doesn't for you, just type the following web address into the address bar of your browser to go there:

www.pmc.org/mypmc/profiles.asp?Section=story&eGiftID=KS0140

If you type it in, be sure to enter the punctuation exactly as above, otherwise it surely will not work. Or you can highlight the entire address and copy and paste it into the address bar instead of retyping it.

The mailing address for donation checks is:

Kate Spelman
KS0140
PMC
77 4th Street
Needham, MA 02494

Please be sure to put "Kate Spelman, KS0140" on the check itself as well.

posted by Kate and Jim | 9:23 PM

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