The Long Haul for Haiti

Welcome to the Rolling Home Tour, 2010 edition.

After many years in the dreaming, we are finally ready to move into the reality of Summer, 2010 and the long-awaited opportunity to complete a coast-to-coast bicycle tour. In May of 2009, when we managed to pedal up and over the snow-capped Cascade Mountains from Whidbey Island in the Pacific to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in a 'trial run.' This year, the trip resumes with what we think are stronger legs and what we are sure is a worthwhile cause. We are resolved to go the distance AND help raise funds for a very special community of children in Jacmel, Haiti.

Art Creation Foundation for Children, a non-profit arts organization created to serve children in need, is truly a community. Having survived in the immediate aftermath of the January earthquake, these young artists and scholars are filled with resilience and hope. There were 60 children and youth at ACFFC pre-earthquake and now approximately 20 more have become a part of the art creation and learning community in Jacmel. They are the future, the hope for Haiti.

But they need our help, both now and for a long time to come.
Please consider making a donation directly at:

http://www.artforhaitianchildren.org/

Please watch for new posts of our 'carnet de voyage' beginning in May, 2010

2010 Starting Point

Beginning in May, 2010 we resume the Rolling Home Tour as a fund raiser for the Art Creation Foundation For Children, starting from the bike path in Coeur d'Alene along the Northern Tier and Great Lakes route, all the way to the Atlantic coast (around 3500 mi/5600 km), we hope by September 1. Along the way, we will be talking to people we meet about the learning community in Jacmel, showing some of the children's art and making some of our own. We hope many others will join us in spirit, on bikes or both for all or part of the Long Haul for Haiti.