Just over a year ago, the first inkling of my idea about racing the sun started to form and take complete shape. Last year at this time it was after Brandon Marshall's infamous wearing of the cleats for mental health awareness. That was when my race against the sun came in to focus, and you helped me raise $1,100 for the Brandon Marshall Foundation, and started a conversation that has continued through today. It was a great experience, and one I'm going to continue along with the conversation.
So since the benefits far outweigh the costs, I'm going to do it again. I hope to raise just as much if not more awareness this year.
This is where I need your help. Where should the drive take place? My first idea is to do the same thing as last year, Santa Monica to San Francisco along the Pacific Coast Highway. However, this time I'd bring my wife as she didn't get to go last year. Another of my idea is to follow the Lincoln Highway along some section, possibly ending up in Chicago at the headquarters for the Brandon Marshall Foundation before sunrise, because of the recent (to me at least) link between Abraham Lincoln and mental illness.
For any other ideas is where I ask you, dear reader, for your ideas. The only requirements I would have is that under normal daytime circumstances the drive would be scenic, is a distance that could reasonably be covered from sunset to sunrise on the solstice with out breaking (too many) laws, man-made or scientific. I'd even consider an aquatic drive (?) if someone were to loan me a boat.
So please let me know your ideas, tweet me, leave a comment, or send smoke signals to let me know, I am eager for ideas.
Thank you!
