Nate White’s mother, Meg Farrington, works at Somerset Elementary School in Somerset, Wisconsin where a group of students are following the Pedaler’s progress. Each day the students check in online for news of the group. Lola is one of those students and the other day she left a comment that asked, “How are you doing [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Somerset Wisconsin Grade School Students Following the Pedalers for Progress
Posted in The Journey on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Audio Interview with Jacob Quarstad conducted by MPR
Posted in Random Thoughts on Biking and the Environment on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pedalers for Progress contacted MPR to see if the audio interview conducted with Jacob Quarstad last Wednesday and aired last Thursday was available online. Unfortunately the interview did not make it on line, but thanks to Tim Post, Higher Education and Transportation new reporter for MPR, he supplied us with a transcripts: Four students from [...]
Pedalers for Progress Get Coverage in Twin Cities Streets for People
Posted in Random Thoughts on Biking and the Environment on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twin Cities Streets for People had a nice post today on the Pedalers for Progress and embedded the documentary video in that post. Check it out. It’s really a pretty cool site. I didn’t know anything about it but will make sure I bookmark it. Hopefully you will also! I think if we are to [...]
Day 4 through 5 – Another Check in by the Pedalers
Posted in The Journey on May 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Day 4: (67 miles) Left Lake Benton and kicked out 30 miles in an hour and a half. In Brookings we ate a ridiculous amount of corporate breakfast at Perkins. The Tremendous Twelve (abd side orders) only lasted a matter of moments. Fairly smooth and fast day. Camped in De Smet. No food, no grocery [...]
Days 1 Through 3 – A Check-In from the Pedalers for Progress
Posted in The Journey on May 25, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Posted via email on Jake’s iPhone We apologize for the lack of posting, but have had almost no internet service thus far. Day 1: (74 miles) We took a varied route with many detours due to poor maps and road construction. In the end State Highway 169 took us to St. Peter where we camped [...]
Star Tribune Gives Pedalers for Progress Mention
Posted in The Journey on May 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jim Foti, a Star Tribune writer who reports on transportation and commuting gave the Pedalers for Progress a mention and a link in his Sunday column today. Foti says, The death of a cyclist who collided with a large truck made it a rough week for the local biking community, but there was also some [...]
1 State Down, 4 to go – Hello South Dakota
Posted in The Journey on May 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Photo sent via Jacob’s iPhone
Tracking Pedalers for Progress on Their Journey.
Posted in The Journey on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the Augsburg Day Student Government decided to fund the trip for Pedalers for Progress, they made sure that part of that funding was earmarked for a GPS tracking system to follow the young men on their Journey. Micheal Wethington set up an account with Spot GPS and got the system working. Brian Quarstad, father [...]
Augsburg Online Publication Features Pedalers
Posted in The Journey on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Augsburgs online publication, Inside Augsburg featured the Pedalers for Progress in an article posted on Friday. Jeff Shelman who is the Director of News and Media Services for Augsburg and who attended the sending off gathering on Thursday wrote the story. Shelman was also repsonsible for setting up some of the media coverage the boys [...]
The Journey Begins
Posted in The Journey on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The trip is officially underway. About 20 people gathered at Augsburg College this morning to see the Pedalers for Progress as they started their journey off at 9:00 a.m. The boys left the campus with some slight delays as they tried to accommodate the local news media. A few last minute adjustments to bikes and [...]
