When I decided to head out on The Kindness Bus Tour, it took almost 2 years to divest of my life most everything I owned, a very liberating proposition to say the least. It is hard to decide what you may need and keep only what might serve a purpose along the way. One of the items I gave away was a bike which I really didn’t use that frequently anyway, why would I use it to travel on campuses? After my first month trial leg of The Kindness Bus Tour, I decided that a bicycle would be handy, so I bought a replacement. For the next several months, the bicycle sat in the aisle of the bus. I had to step around it dozens of times a day. Both of my shins were battered for months with scrapes which never quite fully healed from the pedals as I would collide as I moved from front to back to front of the bus. I never used the bike once during those several months so that bike is no longer.
I may be the only guy who doesn’t own a bike with less than 2 months to departure of a 7,400 mile bicycle tour. I am using a borrowed bike to acclimate to the comforts of a bicycle seat, as I believe that will be the hardest challenge of The Kindness Bicycle/Bus Tour. Of course, holding Bogart is a little challenging as well.
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
Mail donations to:
One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.