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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Monday, August 10, 2009

The C & O

The chesapeake and ohio canal national historic park is part of a bike path connecting DC to Pittsburgh. Since I'm heading south and west, there isn't really any part of it that helps me out. That said, I figued since I was passing it I may as well check it out. Heading south from Hagerstown, I linked up with the path in Williamsport. After riding roads it was a great change of pace. Laid back and flat! It follows the old tow path for the canal, used by mule teams to pull barges. Finally I got to meet some other bikers.

Jeff- a middle aged self employed advertiser on his annual trip from pitt to dc. Real nice and full of career advice.
Kelly- a self proclaimed "journeyman, a bike hobo with class" also middle aged, but full of that wingnut passion, shinning eyes and ocassional rage. He was on a quest to find some black snake (I may have spotted it after we parted) and despised being plugged in. For dinner he made delicious steak and lentils, which he produced magically from his pack.

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