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More About the Climate Strike of 9-20-19

More About the Climate Strike of 9-20-19 It was gratifying beyond measure for this long time crusader to see kids and their middle aged parents gathered together in the park on a rainy day chanting:  “No more coal, no more

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9/26/19 – Day 23 – Solar Power International Convention – Salt Lake City, Utah

9/26/19 – Day 23 – Solar Power International Convention – Salt Lake City, Utah

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9/22/19 – Day 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Resting and Catching Up on Sunday

9/22/19 – Day 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Resting and Catching Up on Sunday Today I attended church services at the First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City. Sunride stayed outside catching a few rays. When I get

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9/22/19 – Day 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – More Tales of the Road – Entering Utah

9/22/19 – Day 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – More Tales of the Road – Entering Utah Snowville is the first town I came to in Utah. Named not for legendary snow falls but after an early pioneer, Mr.

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9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 3 – Caldwell, ID

9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 3 – Caldwell, ID This also happened on September 14th, earlier in the day. With spokes replaced and repaired, we set out from Caldwell the

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9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 2 – Bruneau, ID

9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 2 – Bruneau, ID This happened in Bruneau, ID on Saturday evening, September 14th.. Sunride took me 83 miles today. Arriving in town I came up

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9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 1 – Haines, Oregon

9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 1 – Haines, Oregon Today I’ve had a minute to write a couple of my experiences. Sunday 9/8/19 Haines, Oregon I drifted into the tiny

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9/20/19 – Day 17 – Salt Lake City, UT – Climate Strike Organized by Students!

9/20/19 – Day 17 – Salt Lake City, UT – Climate Strike Organized by Students! Sunride attended Salt Lake’s Climate Strike, part of strikes held around the word and inspired by a 16 year old student from Sweden. Our children

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9/19/19 – Day 16 – Salt Lake City, UT – I Made It!

9/19/19 – Day 16 – Salt Lake City, UT – I Made It! I’ve just arrived to my ultimate destination for this leg of my journey – Salt Lake City, UT!

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9/17/19 – Day 14 – Malta, ID to Tremonton, UT – Triple Drat!

9/17/19 – Day 14 – Malta, ID to Tremonton, UT – Triple Drat! Well, I made it to Tremonton; but it wasn’t easy. After pulling up to a traveler’s service station in Snowville, Utah, where a delightful young woman named

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  • 6/18/21 – Crater Lake, Oregon
  • 2/21/21 – Encore in San Francisco
  • 1/21/21 – Mahalo Hawaii
  • 1/20/21 – Inauguration Day, Reflections on America
  • The Sunride Top Ten Rides in America
  • 1/11/21 – Hawaii Day 5: A little help from my friends
  • 1/10/21 – Day 4: Tooling around the Island
  • 1/9/21 – Hawaii Day 3: Into the Volcano
  • 1/8/21 – Hawaii Day 2: Stung by a Jellyfish
  • 1/7/21 – Hawaii – Day 1
  • 11/22/20 – The Flag and Thanksgiving
  • Election 2020
  • 10/30/20 – Pretending Hawaii
  • 10/29/20 – Stymied in Seattle
  • 10/27/20 – Friends to the Rescue
  • 10/20/20 – Preparing for Hawaii, A Fox/Chicken Challenge
  • 10/2/20 – Footnote on Alaska
  • 10/1/20 – Last Day in Alaska
  • 9/30/20 – Chased by a Moose
  • 9/28/20 – Day 4 in Alaska Up Ship Creek
  • 9/27/20 – Alaska Day 3 So far, so good.
  • 9/26/20 – All Around Anchorage
  • 9/25/20 – Alaska Day 1
  • 9/24/20 – Next stop – Alaska
  • 9/8/20 – Welcome home!
  • 8/20/20 – The Final Four
  • Biker Joe Biden
  • 8/17/20 – Three state sweep
  • 8/14/20 – All work and some play
  • 8/13/20 – Sunride Takes a Spill in Vermont
  • 8/7/20 – Massachusetts to Maine
  • 8/4/20 – Chased by a Hurricane
  • 8/3/20 – New York, NY
  • 8/1/20 – Brotherly Love and the New “Jersey Girls”
  • 7/29/20 – Back to West Virginia and on to Delaware
  • 7/27/20 – Sunride Goes to Washington D.C.
  • 7/24/20 – Richmond to Williamsburg, Virginia
  • 7/20/20 – Memory Lane – Kingsport, TN
  • 7/18/20 – A Case for the Judge in West Virginia
  • 7/18/20 – Kentucky
  • 7/17/20 – Parnelli Patterson
  • 7/16/20 – The Carolinas
  • 7/11/20 – The Big Ride
  • 7/10/20 – Florida
  • 7/9/20 – New Orleans
  • 7/6-7/20 – Mississippi, Louisiana and Natchez Trace
  • 7/4/20 – Memphis
  • 7/3/20 – Tennessee
  • 7/2/20 – Arkansas
  • 7/1/20 – Reflections of Sunride 3
  • 6/29/20 – Koch Industries, Wichita, Kansas
  • 6/28/20 – Shot Down in Texas
  • 6/26/20 – Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico
  • 6/25/20 – Colorado Wind Turbines and Storms
  • 6/24/20 – Nebraska – Solo vs. Duo
  • 6/23/20 – Hot Springs, S.D. to Chadron, Nebraska
  • 6/22/20 – Rapid City, South Dakota
  • 6/21/20 – Montana, Wyoming
  • 6/20/20 – Medora, North Dakota
  • 6/17/20 – Sunride Chapter 3 Begins
  • 3/13/20 – Tesla Gigafactory, Nevada
  • 3/12/20 – Las Vegas
  • 3/6/20 – The Ride Around Lake Tahoe
  • 3/5/20 – The Paradise Fire of 2018
  • 3/4/20 – Paradise, California
  • 3/3/20 – Load Up Day
  • Chapter 2 – The Resumption
  • What an Adventure!
  • Hostile Hostel
  • Better Than A Horse
  • More About the Climate Strike of 9-20-19
  • 9/26/19 – Day 23 – Solar Power International Convention – Salt Lake City, Utah
  • 9/22/19 – Day 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Resting and Catching Up on Sunday
  • 9/22/19 – Day 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – More Tales of the Road – Entering Utah
  • 9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 3 – Caldwell, ID
  • 9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 2 – Bruneau, ID
  • 9/21/19 – Day 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Tales of the Road Part 1 – Haines, Oregon
  • 9/20/19 – Day 17 – Salt Lake City, UT – Climate Strike Organized by Students!
  • 9/19/19 – Day 16 – Salt Lake City, UT – I Made It!
  • 9/17/19 – Day 14 – Malta, ID to Tremonton, UT – Triple Drat!

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Read about global warming and ways you can reduce your carbon footprint in my book, Footprint: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Extinction

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I present at conferences in America, China, South America and other countries on solar energy, global warming, electric vehicles, and reducing your carbon footprint. To learn more go to my speaker’s website.

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