After eleven days of rain, wind, cold, chasing dogs, shady casino adventures, cheap hotels and endless hills, David and I arrived in New Orleans for Domainer Mardigras.
I’d love to tell you the trip was all fun and games but that wouldn’t be very truthful. More than anything, it was the weather that broke us. I suppose February wasn’t the best month for the journey.
However, we had to do it in February. We were doing it for The Water School, sort of. Well, we were doing it to train for the climb which is for The Water School.
TWS is a great organization that teaches Africans and Haitians how to clean their water using a solar disinfection technique. It’s a wonderful and inexpensive solution that works and is easy to implement. A full 100% of donations goes straight to the cause.
Please sponsor my climb by donating to the school. Even if you don’t sponsor me, sponsor someone else. Just pull out your wallet and do it. It’s for a great cause. Small amounts are fine. We’ll take whatever you can afford.
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That’s awesome Rick! I’m going to donate right now.
One question. How did you carry cloths, laptop and so forth? I always wondered how bikers did that, lol.
I don’t know you anymore………………………………….
The bike had saddle bags on it and I just bungy corded my back pack on the rack.
Congrats on finishing! Thanx to you and David Clements for bringing attention to the cheap, low tech water disinfection captured on this CNN video: http://www.thewaterschool.org/cnnsodisvideo.html – amazing! never heard of it until I read it here! Maybe that could combine with EnergyRecovery‘s desalination process to alleviate the water crisis . . .