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I hope all of you are doing well and we appreciate all of your thoughts an prayers. We have been cruising at a pretty fast pace and almost halfway done. We have covered 5 States so far including California, Nevada, Idah...

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We left Dubois, WY and made our way to Riverton. Just outside of Dubois is the National Museum of Military Vehicles. This is done very well with huge displays to see. There has been a lot of development around this with ...

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What a day it was going from Jackson to Dubois in Wyoming. We left the fire station right at 7:00 am with help from the fire and police departments with an escort through town leading us to the bike path which would take...

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We arrived in Jackson, WY yesterday the 12th and knew a rest day was coming. Many of you following must think \"wow\" short days a rest day in there, when are they going to get serious about this ride? Tomorrow it gets ser...

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We had a short 48ish mile, hot ride today with a little headwind, not bad. We left the main fire station at Idaho National Labs around 10:45 after a good breakfast provided by the firefighters. Thank you very much Chief ...

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Today we had a fairly short day from Blackfoot to Idaho National Laboratories where our INL Fire department hosted us for the night. The team was driving to the campus cafeteria to get lunch and then enjoy the hot windy ...

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Started at 8:am this morning from Pocatello on a nice cruiser ride ride to Blackfoot. Julian was our Captain today and is an active firefighter from SFFD. A young man who is no stranger to riding and accepting the challe...

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We wrapped up today after riding 83 miles into Pocatello, ID. Good roads today with two short sections of interstate a fun down hill and a quick arrival. We are noticing some of the riders are have allergy type symptoms ...

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A little later start today from Twin Falls at around 8:00 am. Pretty special round up before to Remember Everyone Deployed (RED), prayer and a couple of other ceremonial exchanges. Brother Byrne (Cannonball) led with the...

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We really enjoyed our ride today as it was a shorter mileage day and mostly downhill. When we left Jackpot, NV we had a 7 mile escort from their fire chief and then we were on the open road with our group and another bus...

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Yesterday the 5th was a pretty fast day. We are doing well with schedule and the starts filled with positive team effort. We were on Highway 93 from Wells, NV and it is a very well traveled highway between Nevada and Ida...

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We have completed two days of riding ending in Sacramento at the California Firefighter Memorial. From there we were able to stop in at Sacramento Firehouse #2 and were able to get everything loaded and the crew got to s...

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The energy at the beginning was incredible and I am so proud of this team. We had a great send off in

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Our Bay to Brooklyn Team is together and we were able to do a short train ride together. Afterwords we worked on loading the trailer with bike and gear for our trip across the US. The group is energetic to start this 9/1...

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Thursday before the kickoff and team members are beginning to arrive. More will come in today on this cool Santa Cruz morning. Last minute ride details being completed routing and trailer arrangements. Tomorrow we will a...

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Well seems when you think just about everything is done, planned, executed and you are ready to ride, someone sneezes and there is snot all over the place and you start looking for help to clean it up. Yesterday a decisi...

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/fire-related-reroute","title":"Fire Related Reroute","summary":"Well seems when you think just about everything is done, planned, executed and you are ready to ride, someone sneezes and there is snot all over the place and you start looking for help to clean it up. Yesterday a decisi...","date_modified":"2026-07-29T04:03:47Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/tough-conditions","html_content":"

In our line of work, fire ground conditions can be very unfavorable. We learn about them and train for them and when the time comes we deal with them. Adapt and overcome. I at one point charted weather conditions for thi...

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/tough-conditions","title":"Tough Conditions","summary":"In our line of work, fire ground conditions can be very unfavorable. We learn about them and train for them and when the time comes we deal with them. Adapt and overcome. I at one point charted weather conditions for thi...","date_modified":"2026-07-24T15:47:49Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/the-commish","html_content":"

Well it is only appropriate to do a little bit on Brother Stan Maupin. Stan \"The Commish\" will turn 61 on Sunday the 26th of July and is doing a training ride the Friday before. A 61 mile bike ride to commemorate the occ...

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/the-commish","title":"The Commish","summary":"Well it is only appropriate to do a little bit on Brother Stan Maupin. Stan \"The Commish\" will turn 61 on Sunday the 26th of July and is doing a training ride the Friday before. A 61 mile bike ride to commemorate the occ...","date_modified":"2026-07-21T23:16:44Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/you-will-be-missed","html_content":"

I am sad to report that Frank Walsh will not be able to join us on the ride for the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, he had to drop out which was very hard for him and the rest of the team....

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","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/two-weeks-away","title":"Two weeks away","date_modified":"2026-07-21T11:45:31Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/now-less-than-1-year-from-the-start","html_content":"

Excitement builds as we get closer to the start date and we are ready to connect with all of you as we pedal across the USA! We have secured some of our over-nights and very grateful and glad to have you as a part of the...

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We are currently making some changes to our route to make it safer for our team. The first three days of the ride and the route through Iowa are currently being looked at closer and will likely change.

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/route-changes","title":"Route changes","summary":"We are currently making some changes to our route to make it safer for our team. The first three days of the ride and the route through Iowa are currently being looked at closer and will likely change. ","date_modified":"2025-03-28T01:49:40Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/air-force-all-the-way","html_content":"

As many of you know, Bay to Brooklyn is all about remembering. The 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001 and we also remember our military personnel who have sacrificed. It is to this end that we want to r...

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/air-force-all-the-way","title":"Air Force All The Way","summary":" As many of you know, Bay to Brooklyn is all about remembering. The 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001 and we also remember our military personnel who have sacrificed. It is to this end that we want to r...","date_modified":"2024-09-25T23:31:16Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/field-of-dreams-is-this-heaven","html_content":"

Somewhere between Waterloo and Dubuque in the not so flat State of Iowa. We had no idea of what the day would hold and it would prove to be one of our most interesting and adventurous days! The first half of the day woul...

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Father Frank.

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/father-frank","title":"Father Frank","summary":"Father Frank. ","date_modified":"2023-06-16T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/superman","html_content":"

I would like to share with you a little bit about Kent Clerk aka \"The Rat\" and his involvement with Bay to Brooklyn. Kent is a volunteer at heart and offered to come aboard as a support driver for our cross country ride....

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/superman","title":"Superman","summary":"I would like to share with you a little bit about Kent Clerk aka \"The Rat\" and his involvement with Bay to Brooklyn. Kent is a volunteer at heart and offered to come aboard as a support driver for our cross country ride....","date_modified":"2023-03-11T00:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/bay-to-brooklynthe-genesis","html_content":"

Its only appropriate for the first Bay to Brooklyn blog post to be about retired Santa Clara Fire Dept. Driver Engineer Darrell Sales AKA Skillet, the founder of what is now known nationally as Bay To Brooklyn. I’m writi...

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/bay-to-brooklynthe-genesis","title":"Bay To Brooklyn...The Genesis ","summary":"Its only appropriate for the first Bay to Brooklyn blog post to be about retired Santa Clara Fire Dept. Driver Engineer Darrell Sales AKA Skillet, the founder of what is now known nationally as Bay To Brooklyn. I’m writi...","date_modified":"2023-01-31T07:41:34Z"},{"id":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/vallejo-to-sacramento","html_content":"

Our daily routine for the entire trip starts bright and early, at about 0600. We eat breakfast. Everyone is required to go through a health check, B/P, o2 stat, pulse, temperature, and weight. This data was charted and k...

","url":"https://baytobrooklyn.org/f/vallejo-to-sacramento","title":"Vallejo to Sacramento","summary":"Our daily routine for the entire trip starts bright and early, at about 0600. We eat breakfast. Everyone is required to go through a health check, B/P, o2 stat, pulse, temperature, and weight. This data was charted and k...","date_modified":"2021-08-02T10:30:00Z"}]}