Handcycle America

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08/20/2018

Huge congratulations to these three awesome guys. They did over 46 hours of riding in the last week, completing their last two hours today from Ellsworth, Maine into Bar Harbor, Maine! Super stoked and proud of our Handcycle Across America Team. Thank you for all your support, love and admiration. Now moving on to our post hydration celebrations! Gerard Ah-Fook Rickie Rincon Matthew J. Robinson Lah Ah-Fook Shellie Rosenberger

08/19/2018

Cheers!

08/19/2018

Last 20 miles. Nice short ride to finish this team trek.

08/16/2018

Matthew Robinson, Rickie Rincon, Shellie Rosenberger, Gerard Ah-Fook, the boys and I, are five days away from completing our journey. For those who would like to donate towards our post hydration needs, you can send it to PayPal [email protected] or mail to;

General Mail
C/O Gerard Ah-Fook
55 Cottage St
Bar Harbor, ME
04609

If you know anyone in or near Bar Harbor, ME, send them our way to help us celebrate as they dip their wheels in the Atlantic Ocean. I’ll try and post here every day when I can!

08/14/2018

We are crossing over into Vermont as we speak, and we are on our last ACA map of our journey! Six days to go, woot!

08/08/2018

Camped out on the dock at Dunkirk NY. Looking to to be at Niagara Falls later today.

Edit: A few equipment issues as well as downpour have got us hunkering down, with chills, for the day to repair, warm up, and continue tomorrow. Thank you American Legion Post 928, Derby, New York members who put us up for the night at an Inn.

08/07/2018

Laundry day is everyday, especially being on the road.

We are buckling down in Dunkirk, NY, zooming past Pennsylvania. The guys are covering a lot of ground in the next couple days. Rickie Rincon Gerard Ah-Fook Shellie Rosenberger Matthew J Robinson

08/06/2018

We stopped to pay homage to Cleveland Brown's own hero, Jim Brown. We are looking to finish this day somewhere between Ashtabula and Conneau.

08/06/2018

After riding out of America's giant corn maze that spanned Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio, we made it to Lake Erie via Huron (Not too far from Sandusky). We cruised along the lake shore up to a location that would put us at the foot of Cleveland, without actually staying in Cleveland (sorry but not sorry Cleveland fans).

The Bay Village Fire Department were willing to put us up on their concrete pad last night, to drop our trailers and allow us to commence our vagabonding. Our expert pathfinder, Lah, preferred something that wasn't a concrete jungle for three little boys to grow weary of. So despite the Fire Department's offer, she found us a site next to the playground at the park, and most importantly, the site offered us electricity.

The Bay Village Police Department caught wind of our arrival (Lah called them) and from the moment we rolled in to Lah's GPS location, we were greeted warmly by Officer Kitchen. At least two of us were, I think Matthew's corn banditry days were catching up with him, as he ended up in cuffs (see picture).
Several officers came by multiple times checking in and saying hi when they had the opportunity. They brought coffee and donuts. The gesture was heartfelt. The local PD in this community have endeared themselves into our memories from here out. Even as I write this Officer Fuchs showed up just now to present S.W.A.T. challenge coins for the kids, and refill our water supply. We feel our gratitude alone is insufficient. We've inadvertently stumbled upon an already well oiled machine of officers who not just serve their community by job, but by community service beyond their badge. These officers are representation that once you get 'Protect and Serve' in your blood and psyche, it doesn't turn off when you punch a clock.

Looking forward to getting through Cleveland today and setting ourselves up for a traipse through Niagara Falls, Canada side.

08/05/2018

We made it safely to Ohio. We are getting closer and closer to Maine!