Hello faithful blog readers, Mia and Kevin, your guest bloggers are here for the evening. As we’re not the creative writers in this operation, we thought it would be best to stick to the facts and give you a history lesson as to what has happened on July 20th in years past.
O, Blog Reader, today is the day! Some of you probably thought the whole trip was a fiction to make our little organization seem more international
As we’ve said many times, getting the right trip leaders on board is one of the most important elements to running a successful program. Chad and I spent over four full weeks this past winter interviewing prospective leaders and hiring staff. We visited 13 small liberal colleges in the Northeast. Schools like Bowdoin, Colby, Trinity, Hamilton, Franklin & Marshall & Bucknell. We received over 130 applications for only 13 new trip leadership positions. It’s a lot of work, but in the end, we know it’s all worth it. And with 50% of our leaders back in 2011, we’re darn proud of the team we’ve assembled for the coming summer.
Happy Spring to all! Flowers are starting to bloom here in Maine, trees are slowly showing their buds, and warmer weather is on the rise. Only 2 ½ months to summer!
So for the last two years we’ve been providing the students on our America Coast to Coast trips with some sharp looking Apogee Bike Jerseys. We’re still planning to do the same for our 2011 ACC group (in red), but after multiple requests from non-ACC families for jerseys, we thought we’d open up availability to everyone.
