About me!

Rennie Young: I retired from Honda Canada Inc. last December after 26 years, 17 years with the military prior to that. Also, I turned 65 Sept. 10. "I wanted to do one thing in my life that would make a difference and I felt this was IT"! I surpassed my fund raising goal of $5,000. I want to thank all who donated to the cause on my behalf. I only started my fund raising on July 22 and found everyone very eager to contribute as just about everybody has been touched by Cancer. It is a horrific disease and we have to make it history!

There are some awesome videos: www.givetolive.ca, select the media tab at top and then videos. Also new links now on the Ride's main Web Site, I was part of Team #5. www.givetolive.ca

You can view all my photos from this epic ride at the following location: http://cid-143e11f69d35a646.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Give%20to%20Live

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Day - 11, Rode into Texas, final day tomorrow

So, tomorrow we ride into Austin with an escort to the reception from Lance Amstrong Foundation. It has been a long journey but I have learned more about myself and more about cancer and how affects people. I have had many very emotional times hearing from team members and how they have been affected. We have a daily team hand shake before setting out on our days ride which gave us purpose for the days task. I am looking forward to a rest and getting home to my family and my dog Flag.

Today's ride was across windy ranch desert terrain with not much to look at except the rear wheel of the bike in front when drafting to cut the wind. We have a group meeting at 0530 tomorrow to review how all teams will make it to the meeting point to ride into Austin as a complete group of GiveToLive riders.

I will continue to post updates until I get home Monday night. Also check the www.givetolive.ca web site for new photos and videos. Our webmaster will be fine tuning the site once home and he has the time and a faster computer to render videos and photos. Next post tomorrow from Austin!