About Me

I am a retired IT professional, mentor, and tutor. This website will chronicle my adventures riding my faithful bicycle, Hidalgo, across the USA with the goal of promoting Youth Mentoring.

Since I was about 13, I’ve had a dream of riding my bike on a big adventure. The inspiration came from watching a TV show called “Then Came Bronson”. I turned 59.5 at the start of 2016 and I had told many of my former coworkers that I would ride coast to coast some day. Some day began in late April of 2016 in Oceanside, CA and ended 6 weeks later in Baltimore MD. There were 2 trips down the Pacific coast from Canada to Mexico in 2019 and 2021 respectively. The ride along the length of Old Route 66 is dedicated to the George M. Pullman Foundation in Chicago, IL.  The goal is to attend the celebration of the 2026 Pullman Scholar class at the end of the ride.

Along these journeys, I have reached out to the greater community where I live and across the country to ask people to consider being a mentor or supporting a mentoring organization through financial or other resources that may be at their disposal. Ultimately, I do these rides because it is something I’ve always wanted to do. But while was at it, I hoped to entertain the readers and raise their awareness of youth mentoring and the organizations that support this goal. The return on that investment can be huge.

While I am not asking you to “Return with me to those thrilling days of yesteryear!”, I hope you visit this site often, tell your friends, and most importantly get involved in your community to help some promising young person find a mentor, support organizations that provide mentoring, and consider becoming a mentor. Help fill the gap between a young person’s ambitions and their resources.

The Lone Rider