A few random thoughts...

So I am mailing out some more letters to all my lucky family and friends who may or may not even know who I am :P but I guess that's the nature of fundraising... I got a couple envelops back sometime over break since I apparently can't seem to be able to copy addresses down properly... and plain forgot to include some people in my vast switching of lists around (I seriously have 3 or 4 lists of people on my computer). So if you were for some reason, attuned to this blog, but didn't get a letter from me and I know your address, don't despair, one is coming shortly.

I'd like to send some thanks to Tony and Susan Knowles, Charlie Sassara and Siri Moss, Martin and Deborah Hansen and Chris McGinnis and Jackie Loree for their donations! :D In total I'm a little over three quarters the way there! Seems like my bike will be coming the upcoming weeks too!

Last night I got my race bike out and made sure everything still works, and then overnight we got a nice snow storm in Hanover... well so much for bike season starting.

It looks like I'll be doing three race weekends this spring: The Boston Beanpot Classic in two weeks, the UVM races the next week and Eastern Championships in Hanover the week after. It will be fun and good preparation for biking across country.

Hey, I can smile now

Just an update on everything for all those who wondering what I'm doing. I have recovered well from my wisdom teeth removal. I can eat most foods and I just have a little pain at the suture spots. I also would like to thank the Radoniches, Grandpa and Grandma Moxness, and Marian Fenimore for their generous donations. Now I'm heading off back to Dartmouth for Spring Term and preparing for Bike and Build.

The donations are coming!

I'd like to thank some people who recently gave me donations: The Comptons, Siri Moss, my Aunt Elizabeth, my Aunt Donna, and anyone who recently gave a donation that hasn't popped in the Bike and Build servers yet. With their donations and my own money, I have reached a donation total of $1321, only $2679 left. Just an update on me. I got my wisdom teeth removed today so I won't be doing anything in the near future. It's soup and smoothies for me now.

Thanks to all who have donated, I am really excited for this trip and thanks for helping make it happen.

Thanks!!!

I just wanted to say thanks to all my friends on facebook who have, or will be donating through my little application on my profile. I would also like to thank Susan and David Anstine, my first mail in donation, as well as my adviser David Ehrlich, the second donation. :) This is really exciting now that donations are coming in. For all my friends in Alaska, I am coming home tomorrow night until Monday the 24th. So yeah, thanks to Elizabeth and Anne for donating, there are possibly more but they are the only ones who've told me.

Thanks again to everyone who is donating! And if you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at anson@dartmouth.edu.

Yay biking, and yay going home to Alaska!

You know you want to send me mail :)

I am about to start my official fundraising effort and hopefully this blog will get a little more traffic. So I figured I should briefly explain my route and other trip logistics stuff. First off I have a route map from the Bike and Build website:

I will be leaving on June 18th from Portsmouth, New Hampshire and finishing on August 25th in Vancouver, British Columbia. We have a pretty detailed trip itinerary, which we may or may not be following completely. Here is the link to it. On that page you can also see the above image, and an explanation where your donations will go.

There are also pre-arranged mail drops along the route, and from what I hear care packages are the next best thing to seeing your friends and family along the route. In order to get any physical packages to me address them to:

Bike and Build
Anson Moxness
General Delivery
City, State, Zip

and put "Please hold for pickup on: DATE"
The locations are (and are available on the Bike and Build website)
- June 21 - New London, NH 03257
- June 28 - Indian Lake, NY 12842
- July 5 - Westfield, NY 14787
- July 11 - Plymouth, IN 46563
- July 19 - Pepin, WI 54759
- July 26 - Crookston, MN 56716
- August 2 - Culbertson, MT 59218
- August 9 - Cut Bank, MT 59427
- August 17 - Republic, WA 99166

That is about all for now, more updates later, and hopefully I'll be able to cut down on the length of these things...

Here we go

So my first post. I really have nothing to report other than I now have a blog. And there are 4 and a half months until I take off across country. It will be a grand old time. The snow in Hanover has kept me very busy skiing. Thanks to the snow gods, we had Dartmouth Winter Carnival Nordic ski races in Hanover for the first time in 4 years! That was the most interesting thing that went on in the last few weeks.

I guess before I start rambling I should introduce myself. Hi, I'm Anson Moxness. I am 19 and a freshmen... oh excuse me, first-year (we have to politically correct in our gender stigmatized terms) student at Dartmouth College. I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. I probably would still be there if there was a college where I could get a vigorous education, but sadly there isn't, so I came to New Hampshire. Right now I will probably be an engineering major, I also might minor in Anthropology.

I am primarily a Nordic skier, that's what I like to do, but I also just enjoy the outdoors. I started bike racing two summers ago and last year got myself (thanks to my job at REI) a very nice carbon race bike (which I will NOT be taking on Bike and Build). There are many more things about me but that seems a bit much for now.

I am really excited about the whole Bike and Build experience. The one thing I find somewhat daunting is the $4000 in fundraising. I'm not really sure where to start. I guess if you are reading this and feel generous and would like to donate any amount of money to the affordable housing cause click here and then select my name from the long list of people. Two thirds of the proceeds from the Northern US route will go to Habitat for Humanity branch in White River Junction, VT, just down the road from Hanover and Dartmouth. The remaining amount will be split among affordable housing groups along our route that we as a group will decide. A great cause for sure!

That is all, now back to my homework.... oh the life of a college student...