What a day to decide to do a Century Ride. Today’s ride was for the Homeless, Neglected and Abused children in San Francisco. The weather was perfect and all systems were go. Riding 100 miles really isn’t physically demanding, it is just monotony at about mile marker 60 to about mile marker 90, then I speed just to get finished. Thoughts keep going through your mind, such as, “Are we there yet?” After hour number one, I had ridden 11miles and was well on my way to an early evening finish, hopefully before dark. Being in the vicinity of Lombard Street, I decided to take on the curviest road in the world. I rode from the comfort of flat terrain for the 1st hour and then the steepest hills in San Francisco for the 2nd. I decided that flat is where it’s at so I rode back down to comfort. For the next few hours I rode and it seemed as if I was getting nowhere. The hours moved on but the odometer didn’t seem to match my pace. It was the longest day of riding I have ever had. For 18 hours with 3 hours of repairs and breaks, I rode The Kindness Bicycle. I am thinking that I quite possibly rode 125 miles. It is definitely time to get a new odometer.
Visit YouTube and TheBogartChannel to view the ride down Lombard Street.
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.
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One Million Acts Of Kindness
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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.