Tom's Big Ride Blog
 
Tom’s Big Ride is a 2,100 mile bicycle ride starting in Venice, LA and following the Mississippi River north all the way to the river’s source at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota!  In addition to being an experience of a lifetime, it is also a fundraiser to benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness.  Rotarians, Tom Mork , Doug Anderson, Patrick Boria, Jim Christian, Dave Oswald and team left Venice on July 6, 2015 , where they dipped their back tires in the Mississippi River with a goal to travel to the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi River 39 days later on August 13, 2015.
 
Follow their journey through their blog: