The Coalesce Peace Bike Tour of 2006...

...aka What I'm Doing On My Summer Vacation

Two hearty guys -- Darryl Purpose and Kevin Deame -- are biking from Los Angeles, California to Washington, D.C. Of course, "roughing it" in the digital age means guaranteed computer access and up-to-date blogging, so darryl & kevin have a RV sag wagon. Louise Taylor is driving LA - Denver, and I'm taking it eastward from there.

Why are they doing this? Well, Darryl & Kevin met on The Great Peace March of 1986, when 20,000 people WALKED across the country, to protest and call attention to the danger to humanity of nuclear power & weapons. This being the 20th anniversary, there is a reunion in D.C. for the participants. Darryl, now a professional musician, has a new album to support, and Kevin was itching for a meaningful vacation from his cyber-tech life. So they said, "Let's recreate the Peace March, but on bikes!" While no new nuke power plants have been built in the past few decades, there are plenty of things to worry about. The Coalesce Peace Bike Tour is not a fundraiser for any particular organization, but we will be doing some speaking/acoustic music events, and all the proceeds from those events will go to the local host organizations.

We have events planned in:
ALBQ, New Mexico
Omaha, Nebraska
Kansas City, Missouri
Chicago, Illinois
South Bend, Indiana
Pittsburg, Pennslyvania
Leesburg, Virginia


I'm handling the events coord., so if you are a peace group or acoustic music venue located between Chi-town and D.C. and would like to host Darryl & Kevin, please let me know & I'll get back to you right away.

You can visit the trip blog at:
http://www.darrylpurpose.com/cycle_blog/cycle_blog.html

peace, love & pedaling!