Ride for your Lives

by Katie on April 27, 2011

Having completed my solo row across the Atlantic Ocean over a year ago, I realized that a year is too long to go without an adventure. Although it’s tempting not to spend another 70 days alone at sea with sharks, dolphins, and thirty-foot waves, I’ve decided to cover another 3,000 miles only this time by land. On June 18th, with my friend Sam, we are taking on a little bicycle trip across the states from Oceanside, CA to Annapolis, MD. From the moment we start, we’ll be riding 24 hours/day until reaching the finish, raising money for a safe drinking water project in Kenya along the way. You didn’t expect anything else, now did you?! Click here to follow my latest adventure.

Onto the next one

It’s been 1 year, 1 month and 10 days since embarking on what should have been the most challenging journey of my life; spending 70 days alone at sea with little more than two sets of oars, 300 chocolate bars and a lot of determination. Perhaps the biggest challenge in the last year has been finding a way to top the last adventure.

More common than being asked “Why row across the Atlantic?”, the question most have asked, including myself, has been “What’s next?”. Although I have embarked on many adventures, I feel as if they have a way of finding me when I least expect it. Continue reading here.

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