I’m going to be participating in a bicycle ride with The Fuller Center for Housing!

The Winter Western ride goes from Huntington Beach, California to Tucson, Arizona, March 2-15, 2026.  We will ride an average of 62 miles a day with a volunteer day on March 5. 

Besides the cycling, we’ll also be stopping to volunteer with Fuller Center projects during our ride. More about the event itself is at fullercenterbikeadventure.org.  During the ride we live very simply, sleeping on the floors of gracious and generous church hosts, resulting in only about 2-3% of the funds raised helping to cover Bike Adventure expenses on the road.

The Fuller Center builds and repairs homes using volunteers in partnership with families, who help with the work and pay it forward using a no-profit, no-interest loan that gets repaid to help more families.

It works through a grassroots network of volunteer-driven Fuller Centers in 90 U.S. towns and cities and in 20 countries around the world. Work includes community transformation in El Salvador, Armenia and Madagascar to disaster recovery in places like Mayfield, Kentucky and in Haiti to name a few. The Fuller Center is known for maximizing donations by putting as much of the funds towards the work as possible. Their independent audit estimated that 92% of the funds go directly to program expenses, with only 8% to administrative and fundraising costs.