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Coast2Coast USA - raising money for the noah's ark appeal and the childrens hospital for wales.

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Andy is in charge of the website yes...and all other things technical.those fundraising ideas are the sort of thing we are doing here currently...it would be great to have things like that along the route.auctions could work...we have a few items...i had a grand slam welsh rugby jersey signed by the whole squad reently go for 500. I work for the WRU so i MIGHT be able to get another one if you know of anybody interested stateside. I can get a signed Gwent Dragons shirt easily enough.we actually baught a few signed shirts thinking we could sell them on at a charity dinner, but the dinner was sadly cancelled as our guest speaker (Ray Gravell) passed away.As for contacting bike companies for sponsorship...we are very much smallfry in an industry of big bucks...no company as of yet has been willing to sponsor us, although recently sports brands such as samurai and under armour have shown a little interest

Coast2Coast USA - raising money for the noah's ark appeal and the childrens hospital for wales.

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cheers gabi,we did get your email, and andy is in the process of getting a paypal account hooked up tot he one where all our charity money is going. As soon as this is done, we will let you know as i have no idea with how to get things like that off the ground. So first of all, thanks for that.we'll be flying from the UK on tuesday 17th March, to LA. At this moment in time, we have nowhere to stay in LA, but might have a link through a buisnessman here in Wales, not entirley sure yet. We depart then on the friday. We currently have possible 'stay overs' at Taos, New Mexico; Austin Texas and Mobile, Alabama. We did have key town/cities mapped out along the route as daily targets, but then again, if we can get a number of stops like these hooked up, it'd be far more interesting. Andy is the man to sort those out...he has the whole route, day by day, mile by mile profiled on his PC.What a lady in Taos is trying to do is co-ordinate a fundraiser to co-incide with us passing through. this would be fantastic, but to be honest, a lot of work for someone we have never met. The ebay 'buy a mile' site sounds tip-top. i suppose once something like that is up and running, it sells itself???!?!?!?!As for a blog...we could do a daily blog whilst on the challeneg, and a weekly one building up. this weekend, we are cycling from Pendine, to Llanwrtyd wells, and down to chippenham on the saturday (220miles), only to turn around and come back on the sunday. A good training weekend. there's also a circular newsletter called 'News from Wales and the world', which we are publicising on...but other than that, we'd be stuck for logistical help stateside.Our biggest issue stateside at the moment is accomodation (which we have finance for)and support vehicles...One large car/estate and one camper van / RV...which we have finance for, but are hoping to get them sponsored. So again, if you know of anybody who runs motels / hotels/ vehicle hire companies....massive help!!!

Coast2Coast USA - raising money for the noah's ark appeal and the childrens hospital for wales.

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anybody...ideas...anybody...no??

Coast2Coast USA - raising money for the noah's ark appeal and the childrens hospital for wales.

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Ladies and Gents,I am one of four cyclists aiming to cycle 3500 miles from LA to the florida coast in March 2009, raising money for the childrens hospital for Wales. We aim to complete the challenge in a 2 week window, leaving LA on the 20th March, arriving on the florida coast by the 4th April.We have a TV production company who are presently trying to get 4C to commission a documentary on the challenge and the charity.What we are hoping is that we can make enough links with people of welsh decent along the way, and pass through their villages and meet and greet along the way, even maybe organise a bit of a bash in Florida.at prsent, we have made contacts in Taos, New Mexico, Austin Texas, and Orlando Florida,If we could make another 3-4 links, it would make the trip far more enjoyable for ourselves as far as meeting other people and experiencing other cultures, as well as make the tv documentary more appealing to S4C, therefore hopefully increasing sponsorship and the profile of the charity that we are supporting.Our route is on our website... www.coast2coast-usa.org , but this route was devised solely to visit/cycle past some well known attractions, as i mentioned, if we can creat links along this route/ not too far off it, we would like to visit through your home towns.If you feel you can help, or know of any pockets of welsh communities / people along the route, please do get in touch.Many thanksGareth EvansCoast2coast-USA Team
updated by @gareth-evans2: 12/04/15 03:57:45PM