Redlands man rides across America to help build affordable housing Jacob McMeans of Redlands spent more than two months riding across the country with nonprofit Bike and Build, helping to construct affordable housing at 16 stops along the way. By LAURA WILLIAMS, Correspondent POSTED: 09/13/13 Building houses is hard work, especially when you’re also riding your bike across the country, but that’s how Jake McMeans of Redlands spent his summer vacation. For McMeans, 23, supporting the cause of affordable housing through such groups as Habitat for Humanity and Youth Build meant donating $4,500 plus two and a half months of his life. He and 19 other riders in his group pedaled along the nation’s back roads, stopping 16 times to spend a day laying foundations, installing insulation or painting “It was so hard!” said McMeans, who is a student at Cal State San Bernardino and works for Traveler Guitar in Redlands. “But it was also a lot of fun.” McMeans and his partners were on the road for the nonprofit Bike & Build, which organizes cross-country bicycle trips to benefit affordable housing groups. Each biking day, he said, riders got up early for a small breakfast with carbohydrates for energy – bagels or oatmeal were favorites. They split up into small groups and took off, riding about 70 miles a day and meeting up for lunch at a halfway point. They ate dinner where they stayed overnight, usually in churches or in homes of families connected to Bike & Build. redlandsdailyfacts/social-affairs/20130913/redlands-man-rides-across-america-to-help-build-affordable-housing
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:14:32 +0000
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