It's been a great couple of days and I think we were able to reach many people and touch their lives with this.

Our goal is to get people out and active. These regional programs give people a chance to see if their child will enjoy an activity. Once the individual realizes that they can experience success on a bike, they may want to continue. This gives people a chance to get something that fits with what their children will be interested in.

We made some phone calls and e-mails back and forth. They hooked us up with Jeff Hendricks (an adaptive physical education teacher at Douglas) and we went from there.

Our whole mission is to improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities through outdoor recreation. Judging by these kids' reaction, I think it's a mission accomplished today.

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

There were some kind white people out there who provided a loan here or there, or a little bit of land. But Booker T. Washington and his followers knew that they were going to have to draw from their own resources and they knew that the larger white world was looking at them, every day, closely monitoring them.