The Recce

The start of the big ride is late April, before then much work and planning needs to be completed.  Tom and I went to the States for a recce starting on the 5th of the month.

More photographs of the US



We flew into Seattle and then to Dallas, Nashville and Washington.

The Space Needle - Seattle in the mist

The scale of the ride soon becomes apparent, being a European I guessed an internal flight down to Dallas from Seattle would be a 90 minute hop, so over four hours was a surprise!  And this leaving another flight and much driving to get to Washington.

The cultural differences soon became apparent, the clear and obvious philanthropic nature of the US was obvious, the question that was most common was ' ....and what can I do to help...?

There were a number of great things to report back as being so good for the organisation, the meeting with the main sponsor in Dallas was good for many things, the atmosphere of Texas and the 'can-do' attitude of our main sponsor, First Command, were both great to experience.

Washington just staggering with the meeting of the Senator for South Carolina a real pleasure and a real help for the charity.