Philip M Keating Fund for the Future.
"Phil's Fund" is a donor-advised charitable fund of the Arlington Community Foundation. The Fund will make grants to various organizations to which Phil volunteered his efforts, time, and talents.

On May 28, 2013 a group of four fit and ambitious friends of Phil, led by his good friend, Luis Gendive, soccer coach and native of Spain, will leave Yorktown, Virginia and pedal around 3,500 miles to San Francisco, California. Tentative plans are for some members of Phil's family to ride the first leg of the trip. If your not able to join the team on your bike, you can support them with a financial donation!

Friday, May 31, 2013

Day 4 lunch

After a good struggling start in the morning, we have managed to cover 56 miles. The day has been good to us, not as hot as yesterday, and we have manage to go down hill half the time, but we are not out of the appalachians. After a good rest, we hope to cover 30 more miles and call it a day.

Day 4

We start the day in the middle of the blue ridge parkway, it's a nice and cold morning. We battle more mountians and try to head towards Lexington today.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Day 3 complete

After a long, hot day, we have accomplished 70 miles. We have conquered the first part of the blue ridge parkway, many moutians, with long hills. It was a rough day with the mountains, tomorrow we will ready to cover more ground and head towards Roanoke. It has been a fun trip so far.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Day 3 in blue ridge

After leaving fluvanna, we had a rough first half of the trip, we encounter a lot of hills and a couple of mountains, it was hard to climb the mountain. We have covered over 50 miles in the first half.  The weather has been starting to get hot and humid, hope the mountains cool us down. Now we are taking a break and having lunch, and going to rest, later we tackle more mountians and hit the blue ridge parkway!

Day 3 begins

We start day three bright and early, heading to Charlottesville.  We thank the Shepards for having us over the night, we were grateful. Let's see how the boys do when we start getting close to the mountains

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

End of Day 2

After a great second day, we have accomplished about 100 miles on the road today.  Today the men started to feel the start of the appalachian mountains, with many hill with steep grade. We were lucky enough to have some friends that lived in Palmyra. We want to thank the Shepards for the hospitality for letting us stay over the night.

Cycling

The men have reached almost 100 miles today bike ride

Lunch & Nap

After an incredible morning of bike riding, we have covered 70 miles in 5 hours, we have stopped in Mineral, a small town, which got hit by the earthquake 2011. The weather has been good so far, now it's getting hot and we need a good nap before we get near Charlottesville.

Day 2

We start day two bright and early, to get a good start, and it's nice and cold outside, we are looking to reach charlottevilles.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Dinner and camp night one

First day complete

To an end of our first day we have reached 80 miles on our first bike ride. The bike ride was smooth, a couple hills, not to bad, a great start. The weather was beautiful. Now time for a nice dinner and a great night sleep. 

First meal of the day

After riding the first 45 miles of the day, it's time for a nice lunch from The Farmer's Kitchen

The adventure begins

The start of our biking adventure across the country in Yorktown, Virginia, as the bikes touches the water and the ride begins

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Tuesday, May 14, 2013