Two high-school seniors from Memphis, Tenn., will be bicycling on portions of Route 66 starting next month to raise infrastructure funds for earthquake-stricken Haiti, according to WPTY-TV in Memphis.
Eighteen-year-old Christian Kauffman and his friend Cort Gatliff have been training to bike across 10 states hoping to raise money to help people in Haiti get access to clean water.
Kauffman says, “I would say about 300 (miles) per week and we’ll have to do 700 (miles) during the ride, so we’re ramping it up a good bit.” […]
They’ll fly to California and follow the famous Route 66 through several cities until they reach Memphis.
Their parents will follow them in cars. […]
They’re trying to raise $50,000, so they can get 10 water wells built for Haiti survivors.
According to their The Water Cycle Web site, Kauffman and Gatliff will go through the Route 66 towns of Santa Monica, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Ludlow in California; Kingman and Seligman in Arizona; and Gallup, Grants and Los Lunas in New Mexico before taking a more southerly route through the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma. They’ll be going through their hometown, and finish their journey in Savannah, Ga., in April.
Here’s a promotional video of the two boys:
In case you’re wondering, the boys are getting much of their schoolwork done ahead of time before the trip.