CURRENT MISSION

Bike touring around the 5 Great Lakes as a fundraiser for Grand Aspirtations. Spreading the pedal powered energy across the Great Lakes region. Check out our website: solidagoriders.com

ABOUT ME

Solidago Riders is a group of five women circling the Great Lakes by bike as a fundraiser for the youth-led non-profit Grand Aspirations.

PHILOSOPHY

bike = love = empowerment = future

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Our goal is to meet and learn from fellow Great Lakers along our route. We hope to share enthusiasm and familiarity with our hosts through Couch Surfing. We're excited to meet people all across the region who are enthusiastic about the beautiful places the Lakes are! None of us grew up alongside a Great Lake, but we have fallen in love with the natural beauty and the people that live around 'em.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some of us have surfed couched in various countries and we have hosted a CouchSurfers at our house in Minnesota where we've lived together as we were all students in St. Paul.

Interests

Biking, adventure, social justice and ecological issues (and the intersection of those two), feminism and FUN!

We travel with immense curiosity for the unknown as well as a desire to share our skills and knowledge with others. We love bicycle travel and maintenance, public art (specifically printmaking), creative writing, photography, video and documentary filmmaking, urban/small scale agriculture, people powered movements and the GREAT LAKES!

• arts
• writing
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• beauty
• dancing
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• cycling
• surfing
• agriculture
• lakes

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Each of the five of us have seen beautiful things, but collectively we're ready for the moments together to see and experience the Great Lakes together by bike.

As a group, we've been through college together, biking the Twin Cities and dancing the nights away. Now is our first long adventure together!

Teach, Learn, Share

We want to teach you bike maintenance and all about touring. We want to cook with you and share our knowledge of gardening and food direct from the ground. We want to interview you, write and blog about your place as we learn about it. We want to screenprint with you on t-shirts or found materials!

We want to learn from you what you love about the Great Lakes. We wanna hear about your personal relation to the Lake you live by. We want to share your energy and build off of that.

Sharing will be the energy that propels us through this 2,500 mile journey through two countries and around five epic lakes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States