BIKE ACROSS THE USA - IT'S ON!

We have been talking about it for a while. Now we are committed. No doubt almost everyone has dreamed of climbing aboard a bicycle at one side of the United States and getting off, sweating only lightly, a mere 4,250 miles later at the other side. No - not everyone?
Well, if you are one of the possibly-certifiable people who have, this is good news. The European, Middle-East & North Africa Area of Youth For Christ (YFC EMENA) is planning a sponsored ride starting June 17 2008 from Anacortes, Washington, finishing August 15 (hopefully still 2008) in Bar Harbour Maine.

More details will be available soon on our website, but basically, once you get yourself to the start line with your bike and sponsorship money, we will organise all the logistics of food, accommodation and bike repairs, etc, and aim to get you to the finish line in one piece. Single bikes and tandems will be accepted, but only riders aiming to ride the full distance. We are accepting no more than 60 registrations, from people between 16 and 70 years, with two-thirds of the places reserved for people from the EMENA Area, and the remaining one-third for riders from the other three YFC Areas.

If you like you can register an interest now by commenting on this blog, and we will get in touch with you as soon as we have a registration form. At that point we will ask for a reg fee of $250, which will be your commitment, and which, if you are accepted, will be non-refundable except in circumstances so remote that we can't even imagine them! This will be a huge project for us, so we need to know that people will be totally committed to following through on it.

But exciting or what?? Let us know ASAP if you are interested.