Coming back from Lubbock this holiday weekend, we encountered the flip side of the vision of a city in denial I observed. About an hour into our trip, we saw a an enormous bicycle contraption heading the other direction with five people on it. Seeing a cyclist at all in West Texas is unusual, but seeing this we had to stop and learn what all this was about.
It turns out the five person tandem was being driven by The Pedouin family, a husband and wife team with three daughters, ages 7, 4, and 3, attempting to bicycle 7000 miles from Kentucky to Alaskan. Their Pedouin name is derived from the word Bedouin – a member of a desert tribe that traditionally lives in tents – signifying a member of an adventurous family traveling on a tandem bicycle across the continent using a tent as their humble abode. On the trip to Alaska, they want to share their family’s journey with others to demonstrate how to live a dream despite the economic, social or educational climate.
Read more about the Pedouin’s extraordinary journey here.
on Nov 30th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
this is amazingly AWESOME!!!
on Nov 30th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
That’s a cool story but let me go on the record for saying those cranks are RIDICULOUS! I’m really censoring what I think of those cranks for the sake of your audience.
Ugh, why do that to such a nice bike?
on Dec 1st, 2009 at 4:22 am
RT @gl33p: Its like something from Dr Seuss! RT @cycle9: Family of 5 bikes from KT to AK on a tandem…http://tinyurl.com/yg23dbe
on Dec 1st, 2009 at 11:31 am
When I see stuff like this, I think, “Why are my kids such whiners?”