The official Dancing Deer Baking Company Blog

Today I leave to drive the support vehicle, a 25 foot RV, down to
Atlanta with all of our supplies and bikes.  It seems like just
yesterday when I walked into Dancing Deer to meet Trish for the first
time.  How time flies.  There is still so much to do… get VIPs like
mayors to join us along the route, coordinate with bike groups,
communicate with shelters, make sure all our technology works…the list
seems endless.  My mind is racing all the time thinking about all the
details.

It should be quite entertaining packing the RV.  We have four
bicycles, eight cases of donated water from Glaceau Smart Water,
kitchen supplies for cooking, bike repair and maintenance equipment,
clothes, bedding, and food.  I was told by the RV rental agency to
bring a garden hose and a nail file.  It’s clear the garden hose is to
fill up the water tank, but I have no idea what the nail file is for.
I’m sure my list isn’t complete.  I know I am missing some things.  I
don’t know how we are going to fit it all in, but where there is a
will there is a way.

Arcade Snacks has generously donated the candy for the Gingerbread
Houses we will be making with the families in the shelters along the
way.  We will need 20 ounces of candy per house, and there will be 180
houses built when we are all done, which means we will need 225 pounds
of candy.  That’s a lot of candy!  The Gingerbread House Making Kits
will be shipped from our production facility to the shelters before we
arrive.  I thought we were going to have to bring the candy with us in
the RV.  However, Lissa, Dancing Deer’s Operations Manager, just saved
us from that fate.  I had no idea that she planned all along to ship
the candy with the kits.  Thank you Lissa!

More from the Ride Central later.