Expedition: Anchorage

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Expedition Leader
Jonathan Hanson (Executive Editor, Overland Journal. Elected Fellow, Explorers Club) has contributed addition criteria. An expedition should comprise one of the following, two or more preferred.

1. A journey with a higher purpose—undertaken, for example, to increase scientific knowledge, promote conservation, or render humanitarian aid.
2. A journey by difficult means—bicycling rather than driving; sea kayaking rather than sailing, for example. Not to be confused with stunts, although there may be gray area in many cases. Using a particular means of transportation simply because it's more difficult taints the effort. The choice of more primitive transport needs to enhance the journey in some way. Traveling by bicycle, for example, is quieter and uses far less fossil fuel. Recreating a historical journey with a reproduction of the original transport would be honorable, certainly, as Pete Goss just did with a replica 1850s sailboat.

We have had an awesome April here in Anchorage. The streets are swept and trails are drying fast.

For two very well traveled bike advocates to launch a hometown expedition. This expedition fulfilled the criteria of Jonathan Hanson's expedition definition. Nicholas Carman https://gypsybytrade.wordpress.com/ and Lael Wilcox https://laelwilcox.com/ took time from making money for their next adventure turning wrenches at the local Bike Shop to spend some time at the neighborhood bike collective "Off the Chain" fixing up children's' bikes, teaching them safety and letting them take a bike home. For every kid that has a happy childhood on a bike makes a healthy adult in the future. These guys are first class and buy them a beer if they pass through your area.

Here is a clip from the Anchorage Dispatch News.https://www.adn.com/video/video-what-dozens-cyclists-did-these-3rd-graders

Keep up with these two on their blogs for more adventures.
 
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