Bike Against the Wind: Advneture Cycling

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Virginia

I have traveled from north Virginia (DC area) to southern Virginia (Clarksville) and I have to say that this has been an amazing state. Everybody should visit at least once. I am about to leave the state and I am kind of sad. but there will be more adventures and more people to meet and talk to and I am excited to meet them.

CORRECTION: in the video I say that the Plantation had slave writings. well that is not true but there is a great guy there who wrote his thesis on the perspective of the plantation from the slaves. He doesn't know why there is a web page had that info on it. The Plantation is still worth seeing and there are so many more things to learn about it.

BIKE TRACKS: The Wind that is blowing instead of a storm that was supposed to be coming

TODAY'S MILES: 5.8 miles

TODAY'S TIME: .5 hrs

TOTAL TRIP MILES: 979 miles

TOTAL TRIP: 21 of 90 Days

Monday, March 15, 2010

New Sponsors and Hanging Out With My Friends

David Lawson Came up for the weekend which gave me a chance to play with the new camera (Canon 7D). It is amazing, I am so very excited to be using it for video and for stills. I will be doing a full review of it shortly. The picture above was a focus test. David would through a piece of paper at me and I tried to capture it in the frame so it was in focus and he was out of focus. This is the closest we got which I really like. I put it through photo shop to make it look 70's.

Adventure Cycling Association is Sponsoring "Bike Against the Wind" they are an amazing website for mapping and getting on a guided bike tour. I am really excited to be working with them because they promote a great lifestyle. (And they help crazies like me do the crazy things I do)

NEW!!!! Our website is about to change. we are moving on to bigger and better. Cody has been working him self to the bone to get us out new site and it is almost complete! This week when you go to www.bikeagainstthewind.com you will find a new home page with many new things. Such things like a map that will show you where I am, my latest video and blog updates and much more. I am excited to see the site develop and I hope you are to. We do also have the facebook group "Bike Against the Wind" please join and post all you want.

BIKE TRACKS: Dave Mathews Band

TOTAL DISTANCE FOR DAY (TDD) : 50 miles

TOTAL TIME FOR THE DAY (TTD) : - hr

TOTAL TIME TRAINING: 1 yr 6 wks

TOTAL DISTANCE TRAVELED: 2359.84 + Miles

The Reason

“Bike Against the Wind” is a multimedia interactive bicycling documentary where everybody will be able to participate in creating a film via text and video comments along with fallowing me (Mark Vashro) on my bicycle across 4,000 miles of the United States of America. I will be traveling by myself with the help of the online community across the USA experiencing its diversity first hand in hope to motivate others to also learn first hand what life has to offer.

By using a bicycle I will take the route less traveled, visit the places unnoticed, and meet the people that are normally overlooked. “Bike Against the Wind” will use this unique way of travel to inform and inspire in a powerful and beautiful way. This will be a difficult task but it will be a first hand, personal experience of this country.