My recumbent bike is back and my life is already changing (New Video)

Moving with the road bike was brutal! I hurt for days

It's really nice having my bike back. I moved my stuff out of storage to save money and moved it all with my bike. When I first moved it using the road bike I was in so much pain and it took several days, but with the recumbent I was able to move everything except one load and then go shopping and bring home a full load of food.

Shopping a WinCo and got a full load.

I picked up a cleaning job tomorrow to raise a little more money for the trip. I'm still about 20-30 dollars a day away from my fund raising goals. I'm budgeting fifty dollars a day, but I'm hopeful to find lots of $5 campsites and nice people to couch surf or a yard to pop up a tent and hope to spend a lot less than that so we can eat good and go to some fun places.

Planning a short two night camping trip to give the bike a shakedown and see how much gear we need to dump. It's been too long since our last camping trip.

Not sure how I'm going to raise up the money I need, but I'm going to do it. I have about eight pledges who have offered me money for every month I'm on the road. If I can get 20 to 30 people to believe in me and my documentary and pledge a dollar a day or whatever they can we will be on the road soon. I can't wait. This trip is really going to inspire a lot of people with disfiguring cancers that life can be good and lived well.

Your donations will save and change lives. 

Please check out my latest video of me moving stuff by bicycle and subscribe to my YouTube channel. 

 

Thanks for reading my blog and keeping me inspired.

I hope to see you one the road

Sean Z 

2015 Ride Update

So I really wanted to be on the road by now, but I just got my bike out of the shop.  Oh it feels so good to have my baby back. Unfortunately, the bike we were having modified will not work for Eva.  She has already out grown it!

I have decided to just pull her behind me in the trailer. It's a little more work, but we have been doing it for four years so it's nothing new.

We are planning to depart the last week of August or the first week in September and head south down the Pacific coast. We plan to make extended stops in San Francisco, Los Angles, and Phoenix to visit with friends.

I will be posting up a new map with projected dates and I really hope that I can connect with as many fellow survivors as possible. Sharing our stories in this documentary will change and save lives.

Showing people how good life can be and how we live will be a powerful message that will give hope and inspire many.

Thanks for supporting me and helping this dream become a reality!

2015 West Coast Ride

My daughter and I will spend 60 to 90 days traveling by bicycle down the west coast to Mexico.
We are looking to meet Laryngectomies’ who live along our route to visit and share a meal with. If you live in Oregon or California we would love to meet you. If you have a couch for us to surf on or a place to pitch a tent that would be really help us with our adventure.

Please post your general locations below and send me a private message and or a friend request and we can make plans.

If you don't live near the coast you could still drive out and meet us at one of the many small towns or campgrounds we will be staying at. It would be really cool if we could organize a few BBQ's or Potlucks with local voice clubs along the way, which would be a great excuse for an extra social gathering and some good eats.

I'm planning to document this trip on YouTube and Facebook, and later in a documentary film, and if you're interested I would like to document your story in video.

You can simply state your name and that you’re a Lary and that you like to play golf for go fishing, whatever you like. Some people may wish to tell their entire stories and that would be wonderful. The goal is to show other larys how we live. To give hope to those in need and provided a better understanding to our needs.

I plan to post edited video clips weekly along with daily photos and raw video clips to Facebook and YouTube. At the end of the adventure I plan to edit and compile the videos and photos into a movie about life as a laryngectomee and how we have learned to thrive as survivors. Sharing our stories will give hope to many, including family members and friends and I know this will help those struggling by showing them what we can do.

I plan to post this movie online and to send out DVDs to ENT offices and Speech clinics around the world. Together we can really make a difference in the lives of many of our fellow survivors.

I look forward to meeting many of you and sharing this adventure.

If this part of the trip goes well and my fundraising efforts allow I would love to extend this trip all the way to Florida. If not I can always work on plans for a national trip in 2016 or 2017.

If you have a bike please come out and join us along our route for a few miles or a few days, it would be a pleasure to share the road with fellow survivors.

Sean Z. Smith

http://www.epicadventuresforsurvivors.org

You can support my cause by following the link below:
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/vyk8/epic-adventures-for-survivors