On my map, it looked like a quaint little road, meandering for a while alongside a rambling brook. What it actually turned out to be was a four lane super highway of death and destruction. Seemingly, it was the only way out of Niigata where I had just taken a ferry to from Hokkaido 20 hours earlier.
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As she bikes over the vast Green Mountains of Vermont, Emily Colin, co-founder of PEDAL (People for Environment, Diversity, Action and Learning), tries to imagine what it will be like doing the same climb, except 10,000 feet higher in the South American Andes. In a little over four months, Emily, along with her partner Rayna Weiss and a few other friends will embark on a 6 month tour of South America by bicycle. Out of breathe and slightly dizzy, Emily had a moment to sit with us and talk about this exciting new project that hopes to create a bridge between those who are working and living in sustainable and holistic ways with the land to the youth and students in the United States.
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