8 wishes + Solo Ride

I wanted to write about a great project that I've been following for a while now - actually, it's two projects that are kind of bundled together. The 1st is called Solo Ride, "a documentary of a 10,000 mile bicycle ride around the United States for children with learning differences and dyslexia". The 2nd is called 8 Wishes, which essentially takes the 1st project much further - raising more donations and media-attention.

Those 8 Wishes are: Raise $1 million dollars, 100 million views (for above video, click here to watch a much, much sharper DivX version), Be interviewed by Oprah, Interview Paul Orfelea, Interview Sir. Richard Branson, Interview Charles Schwab, Be on top 21 talk shows, All in 30 days (deadline: 1/10/07). You can read more about the details of the wishes and the project here. Go Paul!

Paul is exactly the kind of person I hope to run into during Pedal - of course, it wouldn't be ideal to only to run into to stories like Paul's, it's important to show that people have a wide-scope of reasons for doing their own trip. But what he is doing is very inspiring and needs to be shared.

tags: 8 wishes, solo ride, dyslexia, pedal, documentary, indie, vlog, blog, bicycle, community