JW Frye has come 11,000 kilometres on his bicycle, on his way from Key West, Florida to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
"I wasn't even a cyclist when I began," he said, but he is closing in on his geographic goal and passing along a personal message wherever he goes.
His constant cause is to support local hospice facilities. His trip is his way to raise awareness and support for hospice causes, but he steers his audiences to their own community.
"I wanted to repay the gifts I got from hospice," he said, having lost both his mother and father to cancer. "It is not a scary thing. It is a transformative and uplifting journey not just for the patient but for the family. Hospice does a whole lot more than make the dying physically comfortable."
One of the most impactful ways to help Prince George's hospice operations right now, he said, was buy a $100 ticket in their Dream Home Lottery campaign or offer to be a selling point for the tickets. Also, volunteering and making any donation was always a welcome option.
His website (www.onebikeonecause.org) and his Facebook page (One Bike One Cause) have details about the 7,500 mile (almost 13,000 kilometre) journey and how to donate online to hospice.
Online users can earmark their donation to any hospice they wish - he urged Prince George residents to direct funds to the Prince George society - and any unspecified funds will go to the Suncoast Hospice facility in his community.
Frye was in Prince George on Monday with a Tuesday morning departure planned. He intended to ride Highway 16 to Kitwanga then go north via Highway 37 and on to Alaska.
