I love visiting Veterans Hospitals. Everyone from Veterans to caregivers to administrators love to see The Kindness Bicycle Ride for Heroes pull onto their campus.
Today, I visited the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix. Russ who served in the Army for five years during WWII beginning in Italy in 1941, couldn’t wait to tell me his story. He now lives at this facility getting up to the minute care when needed.
Michael and Gabriel, Army Rangers during Desert Storm thanked me several times during our conversation. They are the ones who should be thanked I said. Michelle, an administrator at the center is going to spread word throughout the hospital.
On my way back to Scottsdale, I stopped at Fire Station 61 in Phoenix. These Firefighters made sure I was stocked up on fresh fruit and water to keep hydrated on my ride. They had some great stories to share about their years on the force.
I almost forgot to mention, Arcadia High School was a stop I made yesterday to deliver an information packet on One Million Acts Of Kindness.
I lost track of time with all the great conversations I had today, causing me to spend about a half hour riding in the mid day sun. Tomorrow I will take it easy in the sun in preparation for my all day honor ride on Sunday.
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
Mail donations to:
One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.