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As it sometimes happens, when we try to thank people for the efforts, some get left out, so here I am with a red face hoping to correct that mistake.Martha Hardy, who owns the UPS Store located At nathan Dean Blvd and her staff have been "D2D Angels" in helping us ship t-shirts, make posters, and copy pictures, and just being very supportive of the Ride in general. My sincere gratitude to Martha,

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Except for the obvious ones, these are in no particular order due to the fact that we are still waiting on some to be sent to us.Enjoy!

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...... to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, who, if they could, would ask us why so many of them must die needlessy (we euthanize 10 animals every minute) and to bring the message of Spay, Neuter and Adopt to some who may not know that a problem exists.Today at just after 4 pm, we came home to our Paulding County Animal Shelter and Humane Society after 8 days on the road on a

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An interesting ride on those "Alabama Rollers" (hills)!Two I had to walk up partially, but on the way down one of them, I got up to 45.4 mph! I thought to myself, "If you hit a pothole, it'll be all over for the German boy!", but luckily there were no potholes and I had a great ride down.So we got to Gadsden and met some very fine people who weclomed us with a checkered flag, and fed us and

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How about "Walk/Stagger" for Wet Noses"????Yep, that's me, pushing the bike up a hill. This was the first hill off the Natchez Trace that I could not conquer, but it was not (and won't be) the last, I think.Some of those hills are what I call "terraced". That means there's one hill, NO revovery period and then another hill right after the first one!We have yet to go through Alabama, and I expect

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Whooopeee!!!!I was pleasantly surprised as we left Monroe, LA to find that I had hardly any hills and those that did appear were easily negotiated, so that was a real boost to morale and brought our speed back up to 10.8 mph.We are in Vicksburg, MS as I write - we wanted to go all the way to Jackson, but due to heavy tornado activity there last weekend and power still not restored to some homes,

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What we expected:1. Headwinds2. Rough roads3. A drop in our average speed (now 10.7 MPH)What we did not expect:1. Louisiana road signage is severely lacking. Even though we used mapmyride.com and our GPS, we managed to take a few wrong turns this morning trying to get back to Highway 80 East. There were a couple of times when I had to double back because we weren't sure of the directions. At

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.......Was feelin' 'bout half-past dead." (Apologies to The Band's The Weight)Just need a placeWhere I can lay my headHey Mister can you tell meWhere a man might find a bed?He just grinned and shook my hand"El Dorado" was all he saidTake a load off my fannyTake a load off me......." :)Well, so we made Shreveport late yesterday afternoon, and were received by members of the Northwest Louisiana

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Hello from the road!We travelled 91.8 miles today and are stopped for the night.We were going to stop in Mineola, but the motel was not to our liking so we went a tad further and stopped riding in Hawkins, TX.Here's what we learned on today's Ride:1. The Walkie-Talkies are useless. Due to the roar of the passing traffic, no way can I hear directions from my team, so we are relying on hand signals

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After 10 months of training, planning and obtaining sponsors, Team D2D has reached the week of our official launch.Thursday morning, after a send-off dinner Wednesday night (Thanks, Melise and PHS!) , Bill and the support team will head to Dallas, Texas in the van graciously supplied by Paul Bridgers of Enterprise Rent-a-Car and van signage donated by Larry McIntyre and crew at ImagePro signs of

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Great News #1: If you haven't already, read about Sandy and her owner Deborah on the front page of the D2D site. It will warm your heart to know how those two could not exist without each other!Since meeting Sandy and Deborah, Bill says he's got his "Ride Face" on and he's pumped for those mountains!------------------------------------------------------------------------------Great News #2: We

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Down To The Wire   With less than a month to go before the D2D Team leaves for Dallas Texas, a lot of things have happened and are happening very quickly.   In our last journal entry, we wrote that The Natchez Trace park rangers would be requiring a one million dollar life insurance policy on Bill and the Team in case of an accident. Due largely through the efforts of Ranger Lynn Stanton,

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As April nears, the D2D team is working hard on several important things, the foremost of which are accomodations for the nights of the 9 stops that Bill and his team will be making. We are writing letters to some major motel chains hoping that they too will join the Ride as corporate sponsors.Larry and the ImagePro Team are making final preparations for signage of our Enterprise Rent A Car Van

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Hello everyone!!I have decided to move the D2D blog to this location since it is easier to use! Previous blogs will be transferred over within the next week!Thanks!!

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