About Richele

Richele Jackson and her two daughters, Iviana and Jasha currently share a two-bedroom apartment in a Philadelphia subsidized housing high-rise. While completing her 350 sweat equity hours that will be her down payment on her Habitat Home, she has held two jobs and often contends with a leaking ceiling and 12 flights of stairs when the building elevator is broken. With your help, Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia will complete her house. She'll pay a zero interest mortgage. The money generated from her payments and the 140 other Habitat families in Philadelphia empowers Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia to build more affordable homes.

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You can help Richele achieve her goal of home ownership. On my trip I'll cross around 3000 miles of the US. By pledging dollars or cents per mile, by the time I jump into the Pacific Ocean, Richele could be jumping for joy. All donations should be made directly to Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia and are tax deductible.

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Goals:
$1000 washer and dryer...
$2500 furnace...
$4500 kitchen cabinets and countertops...
$7500 bamboo floors...
$13000 completes the house!

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Big Buckhorn Country Music Festival

At a country music festival outside Buckhorn, KY. Hitched a ride in from a pickup, entry was free. Camping here too. the big group really made me feel alone. Not lonely, but the good kind of alone. (likely) alone in: biking here, being unknown to everyone here, being from out of town, writing thoughts down right NOW.

There are frequent helicopters coming and going. I witnessed one carrying away a heartattack victim receiving vigorous chest compressions. A boy was evacuated by ambulance after a car hit him... Everyone is flying around in their trucks, 4x4s and off-road golf cart contraptions. I'd caught the ride b/c the roads just didn't seem safe, but even my tent is surrounded by buzzing engines. I've got bike reflectors strategically placed around my tent. The helicopters even seem more wreckless. Flying towards crowds as they ascend... Possibly alone in thinking, "I sure hope that thing don't fall on me."

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