Lauren's Bike & Build Adventure: Photos

Musfasa!

Pop and I fundraising! We are professional balloon twisters!

This is a cue sheet we are given each day to guide us to our next host.

Hilly road to Chapel Hill

Self shot after changing my first flat tire all by myself!

Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill that we stayed 3 nights at!

First DM (donation magic) from Firehouse subs!

82miles ride into Winston Salem NC! Very pretty out! Windy and hilly!

Various pictures of the trailer that we painted in Chapel Hill

Along the ride to Winston-Salem there was a strawberry farm so riders got to pick a bunch for the group! Very yummy!

Lots of goats and cows!

chilly morning ride into Charlotte

many wheat fields!

pictures from build day in Charlotte

Out in front of the church this huge magnolia tree held so many hammocks that many riders brought

The pretty church we stayed at in Charlotte!

lunch stop

Panera donated a huge bag of day old bagels and bread to us! Very kind of them and yummy!

First view of mountains

pumping up tires before heading out in the am

Conor showing off the nicely packed trailer. Every morning we pack it up with all or our bags, food, and coolers

Going into Ashville

Lunch stop about 20miles out from Ashville

Claire seems to have the comfiest sleeping bag, so the boys decided to see just how comfy it was!

Wall raising ceremony in Ashville. Pretty neat, the family was present as well as many sponsors and b&b! It was a pretty neat occasion and rather emotional for the family who has gone through a long application process and is currently putting forth many hours of building.

Wall raising!

Ride into Waynesville was so pretty!

lake we stopped at for lunch in Waynesville.

Blue Grass concert we attended in Ashville! These guys were super!

one of the leaders, Erin!

Gatlinburg....junky tourist town hahaha

Laurel Falls

Simon!

Me rope swinging for the first and prbly last time. Fun experience, but prbly never again! Belly flops arent the best feeling!

this is me! a group of us found some locals and jumped off this high bridge into the river! INSANE and illegal. Again, NEVER again. hahaha It was fun and the water was deep but a bit too much for me!

so many cows!

view of the TN river

weird pretty flowers on the mountain

stayed at TN Army National Guard Armory and slept in cots!

Kasper!

Church I stayed at during the storm

painting in the church

labyrinth

view from the back of the church

Bolivar Fire Department allowed us to use their showers!

Group picture from when we build with Mountain Housing

Old Court House, I think this was Franklin County on the way to Bolivar

Old movie theatre

Memphis!

trolley transportation system

Arcade restraunt, oldest cafe in Memphis and on foodnetwork channel!

Andrew and I at the location of Martin Luther Kings assisination in front of room 306. Civil Rights Museum nearby.

First view of the Mississippi River!

Fire Musuem

Courthouse in Memphis

Statues around the courthouse

Catholic Church we are staying at in Memphis

Memphis Redbirds game

Church in Forest City built 1875

Took me 9 hours 27min to bike 103 miles!

103 miles!

Leaving Memphis!

Biking in Arkansas, not the best roads and nothing much to look at

Pictures from building with Habitat in Little Rock Arkansas

Camels in Arkansas 0.o

My new biker bandana!

Emily!

In Missouri for the day!

In Oklahoma!

I'm in three states!

Emily

Cactus flowers!

so many buffalos in Bartlesville! Check out those rock hard leg muscles!

stack of trusses in the beginning of the build day

the before picture of the warefhouse (will post after picture tmrw)

Meegan working hard...or hardly working? haha lolly pop too! (she was on break)

Reg Ryan was climbing all day working hard putting the trusses up

Steven and Sarah...working hard

Water break!

Harry and I!

Teamwork!

Ponca City Ride!

many man made lakes in Oklahoma.

ride into Cherokee OK

windmills!

Olivia and Diet after a long ride!

My doggie friend! He was so well trained/friendly and just sat in the back of the truck at the church.

This is Kansas....for miles

more Kansas...for miles

pretty sites along the way!

Max and I had root beer floats in the small town of Coldwater Kansas

Coldwater Lake Campground

Setting up tents/hammocks

ladies of bike and build preparing for the arm wrestling tournement as the sunsets

it was so pretty on the lake!

Kansas! on the way to Dodge City

This was interesting and didnt expect these sites in Kansas!

Western city!

Finally in Colorado!!

Delicious lunch on our way to Ponca City! Gazpocho soup with homemade herb parmesean bread turkey sammich!

I suppose the rocking chair was comfy at the lunch stop for Ryan and Max

Rocky Mountains!

Build site in Colorado Springs

We put the walls up!

First wall!

This little guy was riding around with this sign! Bike&Build helped build his family house last year! He was such a happy kid!

horses while on a 80mile ride through a drought in the middle of nowhere!

This is Chico Basin Ranch

Campground and lots of poop

sand/gravel road that was horrible!

sunset into the rockies!

sunrise!

This is the creepy abandoned house we piled into around 1am when it started to rain! It was haunted!

The team with Scott and Karen in front of their house!

This is how we slept in the creepy house!

abby with pixie! Pixie was such a cute doggie at the build site! she was so sweet and liked belly rubs! She would roll over on her back like Kasper for beller rubs. I tried taking more pics of her but she was camera shy

me! in my safety gear at the build site

Bike and Build sponsored the construction of this new home for Karen and Scott! Such a sweet grateful couple!

me! at the Garden of the Gods! It was cold!

A bit of history, maybe click the picture to enlarge so you can read it

what views!!!

thats me!

Balanced rock!

haha well I guess my shadow got in the way!

moose droppings! Chocolate covered almonds!

thats me! freezing my butt off!

the double rainbow! I could see both ends of it!

Some of the riders and I at Garden of the Gods! I'm right in the middle!

to the top of Monarch Pass

on our way up! about 12,000ft in elevation

self shot from the cable car!

nap time at the top of the mountain bike and build style

hot air balloons taking off for july 4!

mountain goats!!!

one of the most beautiful sites ive seen so far!

I still think I'm standing in front of a painting

hot air balloons for july 4th!

Main St. in Durango!

cutest donkey!

pictures from the million dollar highway ride

pretty flowers in Utah!

I'm in 4 states!

open range!

look at the little baby next to his mama!

church in bluff utah

the views in Arizona and Utah!

Mexican Hat!

My ram friends!

This is the rock structure that looks like Mordor from Lord of the Rings!

the way into the Grand Canyon

Here it is!

My first view of the Grand Canyon!

What a hottie!

The elk are coming!!!

We were creeping up on him!

Sarah Barrett!

Ryan Smith scared!

They were huge!

I wanted to join their wolfpack of Elk. I think they accepted me!

Kim and I on the edge of the canyon

thats me! hiking on the day off

It was very grand!

group!

Its hard to see, but there is a zig zag on this wall where we were hiking. If you look close, you can see the line of mules in the middle left side of the picture.