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For the last 8 months I have been working together with a group of individuals committed to creating a positive change in the world. Many are familiar with the horrific genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994. The movie Hotel Rwanda exposed millions to the sad events that separated the nation and left thousands [...]

Ryan was recently featured on the La Opinion online newspaper. The article is written in Spanish. Click here to view the article.

Today Ryan was featured on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation with host Neil Conan. The interview went pretty well. Neil was great and gave Ryan ample time to describe the reasons why he embarked on this journey. Click here to listen to the audio interview. National Public Radio is non profit and is [...]

Biking for Barack on the Highway of Hope has received a tremendous amount of support and national recognition! We are extremely grateful and thankful to all who have made a contribution to our efforts of building an inspirational movement of real moral value! With that, however, it is equally as vital that people have a [...]

Today Ryan was featured LIVE on Fox Cable News sometime between 9:20 and 9:45am. Here’s the video of the phone interview. If the video doesn’t work, click here to view it from the Fox News Website.

Alfredo Tobar is a man with many talents, a keen sense for justice, and a big mouth.Restaurant owner, City Commissioner, Artista and Rebel are a few of the titles he proudly wears. We met Wednesday night at Pepe’s Café in Ozona, Texas, the only town I had seen in over 90 miles. Ozona seems like [...]

Here’s a great way to support the movement, and you get a stylin T-Shirt too! Checkout the new Biking for Obama merchandise featured at the One Way North online shop. All the proceeds will go straight into funding the rest of the journey. The shirts range from sizes x-small to x-large and run for $25 [...]

Great news! The gallery of Ryan’s adventures is now open. You can check it out here: http://www.bikingforobama.com/gallery/. The gallery will be updated on a weekly and sometimes daily basis so check back often. I just got done talking to Ryan about an hour ago. He has some great ideas for this blog so stay tuned [...]

Ryan thought it would be a nice idea to add more pictures to the blog so you could get a clearer visual of his adventures. Since Ryan is busy biking accross the country, I will be teaming up with Albert (the media guy) to create a photogallery so we can all better follow Ryan’s inspiring [...]

Day 1: 12/2 55 miles from Occidental College- Huntington beach pier. It was exhilarating riding off from Oxy in a pack of riders. My comrade Tope rode with for day 1 and 2 showing some serious strength after not training before taking on the 150 mile ride. Day 2: 12/3 95 miles from HB-Marine Core [...]