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Get on a bike and pedal across America! Vicariously! PARKINSON'S POWER ACROSS AMERICA power words with much meaning and strength. The cyclists were told 5700 miles, they were anxious of what lied ahead, never having done such a feat, what if they crashed and fell, what if they were hit by a car, where would they sleep, who would they meet, what if they just couldn't do it. Come on team FOCUS ON THE GOAL. Our thoughts tend to consume us in our first miles. (Mirapex, power pellets for neurons) Many team members get nauseated on the rode. This is no ordinary feat. But we're pedaling, we're on the roads of America, we're sleeping under stars and eating tuna out of cans but we've learned one great lesson; we could and we did. At 6:45 am my friends and I arrived via Taxi at Vista Point north of the Golden Gate Bridge, hugging team members I already met as they had pass by Las Vegas a month earlier and had followed on their website from the East. In their Durango jeep they had drivers Matty and Eric drive cross-country along side them. This time they wanted to ride with the team. Fog horns sounded off in the distance, blue and gold ribbons fluttering in the breeze. "Hey, you guys drive''. We got in the jeep and followed the team on the last mile of their goal, across the famous bridge, as the fog rolled across, a reminder that you must focus on what you can do today. We did it! Up mountain grades, in rain, across the hot desert of discomfort. PPAA trek across the lands was metaphoric in the struggle of people with Parkinson's. It's not an easy road but one that can and will be conquered. By the way there is a team right now on the road to Charlottesville Virginia. Go ride with them, they need your email, your encouragement and you need them WWW.PARKINSONSPOWER.COM The negative will consume you if you let it. Go on ride with them, write us on the list and share your travels. A little backpacking too! Patty