Friday, May 20, 2011

Birds on Bikes and the Like

Howdy folks!


Greetings to you all from Peterborough, where Garrett and Kristi have just been gardening all morning... we were then rained out by a thunderstorm and now it's peaceful and sunny again.


Things are rolling along behind the scenes, with Garrett hard at work on the website. (New and improved with all the videos and info we gathered during PEDAL Part One!) And route planning is underway for PEDAL Part Two, after a successful and reflective meeting involving all past PEDAL participants. Even Lucas joined us via Skype from Oregon!


Garrett hard at work on the website


I also wanted to draw your attention to an amazing (and closely linked) project that some friends of friends will soon set off on... It's called Birds on Bikes. They are leaving Vancouver on June 1st (soon!) and heading all the way to Baja California. And their goal dovetails nicely with our own... They are planning to visit small scale, grassroots, sustainable community organizations along their route. They are going to document their trip using film, blog and pen!


It sounds like an amazing journey and we are surely going to connect with them soon to see how we can collaborate! You'll probably hear more details about them in the future as we learn more.
Till then, here is a link to their blog: Birds on Bikes Blog



Sunday, May 1, 2011

PEDAL Futures and TranscanEAUda

Hey folks!

Just a quick update from your friendly PEDAL crew. Plans are in the works to set out on part two of PEDAL Across the Americas in September 2011, starting from San Fransisco and ending up in Costa Rica! There may even be a side trip to Cuba to explore all the sustainable agriculture they have going on there. Exciting stuff!

And this weekend a group of PEDALers past and future got together to reflect on ways to make the second half of the tour even greater than the first. New and old members are joining forces to visit a whole new set of amazing sustainable initiatives. And we are about to undertake a full website update on all that we learned the first time round.

I also wanted to share with you an awesome-cool website about a group of youth who are currently paddling across Canada to encourage watershed conservation. Please do check out their amazing website! http://transcaneauda.ca/

The Transcaneauda crew!
Happy spring PEDALing!

The PEDAL Crew