The day before it all begins!

The day before the big ride!

We are currently sitting in a sports bar in the downtown of Seattle watching the Champions League Final soaking up the american atmosphere and enjoying the 28- 50' wide screen tvs dotted around the place. (trust me this is cruical training). The car is fully packed with everything that we need for the trip including camping stoves and all the bikes and asociated bits! the girls are enjoying the unenviable task of getting to america which as we know from persoanl experince is a long day!

The bikes all survived the dangerous crossing and tunned up ready!

We are making our way to Vancouver this evening and bedding down early for the start of the epic trip ahead. The first day is going to be a comfortable 70 miles with a ferry crossing to boot!

Watch this space

Dom and the boys

The boys in Seattle

It's 10.20pm and we are relaxing planning the crazy day ahead. Today we have been getting all the essential bits and pieces like stove ( which will be feeding us for the next month!) we are picking the girls up from the airport tomorrow and then heading to the start point VANCOUVER!
As soon as we get the laptop up and running we will put up some photos of the getting ready! A big shout out and thank you for sponsoring us!

Dom

Just landed

Just arrived in Seattle airport after a long and arduous journey totalling 22hrs. Still have to sort out how we're going to get 5 boys, 5 bikes, 10 bags into a car with no bike rack! We'll update shortly! X

Fundraising BBQ

BIG thank you to everyone that turned up for the fundraising BBQ; massive turnout and despite being a little hectic at times a great time was had by all. We will update this post when we've counted up exactly how much you've generously donated, but early counts suggest we raised around £1400 for Arthur Rank and MS Society on the night!

Anyway, here are a selection of images from the evening: 

Charity walk!

Last night the boys and i donned our pink tootos (these are the lengths we will go to get sponsership!) to lend a hand for the Charity event "Star Shine Stroll" for the Arthur Rank hospice! There were two loops one 10 mile and the other a 6, with a cracking turn out of over 300 people! Peter and i were papping the event, whilst Chris and Rupert cycled the loops keeping the Lady's in order!

Here's a few pics for your amusement!

Dom

Expedition UPDATE

Hi everyone,

Just a quick revision to dates and set up previously relayed. Unfortunately due to lack of corporate sponsorship we have had to pay for everything ourselves. This means we have called on the help of two beautiful girls to work as  support car! This has allowed to save money and use old camping equipment instead of new, EXPENSIVE, fancy light weight gear. With this help we have also lowered our completion date to 20 days!! Scary but true! Below you can see our complete timetable for our adventure!

We start the ride on Sunday 29th May.

DAY	Activity	Miles	Cumulative
	Leave UK 07.45  - Arrive 15.50 US  -	0
	Day and night in seattle	0
	Pick up girls at 18.30(flight arrives at 17.45), travel up to Vancouver -	140.7
1	Start ride - bike to Horseshoe Bay and get ferry across to Nanaimo, Vancouver island. Bike to Victoria to catch ferry across to Port Angeles following morning	71.83	71.83
2	Catch ferry to Port Angeles - Bike down to Potlatch State Park	86.6	158.43
3	Potlatch State Park(Shelton) to Twin Harbours State Park (Aberdeen)	74.6	233.03
4	Twin Harbours State Park (Aberdeen) to Cape Disappointment State Park	81.3	314.33
5	Cape Disappointment State Park to Cape Lookout State Park	92.1	406.43
6	Cape Lookout State Park to Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park	117.8	524.23
7	Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park to Bullards Beach State Park	66.9	591.13
8	Bullards Beach State Park to Harris Beach State Park	85.2	676.33
9	Harris Beach State Park to Eureka KOA	108.1	784.43
10	Eureka KOA to Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area	99.2	883.63
11	Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area to Manchester State Beach	81.5	965.13
12	Manchester State Beach to Samual P Taylor State Park	106	1071.13
13	Samual P Taylor State Park to San Fran	29	1100.13
14	San Fran to New Brighton State Beach	86.4	1186.53
15	New Brighton State Beach to Kirk Creek Campground	101	1287.53
16	Kirk Creek Campground to Oceano campground	92.6	1380.13
17	Oceano campground to Carpinteria State Beach	107	1487.13
18	Carpinteria State Beach to Leo Carillo State beach	47.8	1534.93
19	Leo Carillo State Beach to Doherty State Beach	94.4	1629.33
20	Doherty State Beach to Tijuana/San Diego	84.3	1713.63

Love, the Boys AND Girls X

DONATIONS!!!

THANK YOU!! To evenyone who has kindly donated, Thank you!!! We have hit the £1400!! please keep giving and keep our target alive!! Love, they Boys! X

Masquerade ball cancelled but let the garden party commence!!

Hey everyone!!! Sorry about the lull in correspondence but we have had a mad couple of months planning our epic expedition!! Don’t you worry though!! We will now bother you more than you can handle!! Unfortunately the ball didn’t happen but that has metamorphosized into a beautiful summer garden party!! Get yourselves down and have a great evening!!  Muchos love, The boys! X