After traveling to Colombia this August with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, I was tired, sick, and lacked sleep. But, besides from physically ailing, I was moved by the stories of the people I met, and wanted to do what I had said to them over and over that I would do: to bring their stories back to the US and tell people how US policy was affecting them. So after finally getting better, spending a week in the woods meditating on this, and conveniently having some time off from work - I think I know what I'm going to do...
...bike to Washington, DC from home, Littleton, MA.
The pros: I could raise money for a cause I feel passionately about; namely, working to mitigate the incredibly negative effects of US foreign policy and working to demilitarize US foreign policy.
The cons: I did a long bike ride this weekend...and it was only about 25 miles. I have no idea what it would take in terms of gear, training, planning, mapping a route, to ride to DC; I don't know if I could raise a lot of money doing it; and I don't know how long it would take me to plan and do.
Next step is to figure out the answers to some of these questions!
