n’t an emergency because the van made it, all the time beeping an audible warning every 5 minutes. What didn’t make it? A bird turned mangled ornament that caught the front edge of our bike racks on top of the van and numerous bugs that kamikazed themselves to our bikes throughout the trip. We settle into La Jolla for a few days to get to know each other, the details of the ride, and to work on the lectures that we will be giving. I am not an experienced blogger, but will do my best to routinely update with pics and entries. Thank you all for your support and I hope you enjoy reading about my R4WH experiences. Hello to all the classrooms that will be following "Dr. Ben's ride"- I will try to separate these entries when appropriate. Please also follow along with our official blog at www.rideforworldhealth.org which is updated daily. Wish us all luck!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Arrived in La Jolla
45 hours being picked up in Plainfield, we finally arrived at our destination, the Jewish Community Center in beautiful La Jolla. I spent the majority of the ride falling in and out of a uncomfortable state of unconsciousness, broken periodically by nearly escaped tragedies on the road. All sense of time/day were lost. I think I drove for like 7 hours straight at one point, but that may have been a dream or be exaggerated. I just now we all made it safely, somehow. We traversed through a brutal winter storm in Oklahoma, which several other vehicles fell tragedy to, thankfully not us. We road out in 3 vans, 2 full of people and 1 full of stuff. One of the other vans had a “service engine” light come on less than half way through. Apparently it was
n’t an emergency because the van made it, all the time beeping an audible warning every 5 minutes. What didn’t make it? A bird turned mangled ornament that caught the front edge of our bike racks on top of the van and numerous bugs that kamikazed themselves to our bikes throughout the trip. We settle into La Jolla for a few days to get to know each other, the details of the ride, and to work on the lectures that we will be giving. I am not an experienced blogger, but will do my best to routinely update with pics and entries. Thank you all for your support and I hope you enjoy reading about my R4WH experiences. Hello to all the classrooms that will be following "Dr. Ben's ride"- I will try to separate these entries when appropriate. Please also follow along with our official blog at www.rideforworldhealth.org which is updated daily. Wish us all luck!
n’t an emergency because the van made it, all the time beeping an audible warning every 5 minutes. What didn’t make it? A bird turned mangled ornament that caught the front edge of our bike racks on top of the van and numerous bugs that kamikazed themselves to our bikes throughout the trip. We settle into La Jolla for a few days to get to know each other, the details of the ride, and to work on the lectures that we will be giving. I am not an experienced blogger, but will do my best to routinely update with pics and entries. Thank you all for your support and I hope you enjoy reading about my R4WH experiences. Hello to all the classrooms that will be following "Dr. Ben's ride"- I will try to separate these entries when appropriate. Please also follow along with our official blog at www.rideforworldhealth.org which is updated daily. Wish us all luck!
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