It can get tough to keep track of the hundreds of pieces of gear in your trailer over the course of three months. I had a brain fart and left the wireless card for my laptop in Washington, DC and have thus been unable to keep you guys up to speed for the last leg up to Boston, MA. My bad. Leaving DC was tough, we had such great hosts. But back on the road we went, and it felt great to be rolling again. We made quick work of the day's ride up to Baltimore, MD where we stayed the night with my college roommate Carter Erwin.

Carter spent the last four months after graduation on the couch in his parent's basement as he searches for an application of his biomedical engineering degree. For all the people I have spoken to about this ride over the last three months who thought or said 'I could never do that', get this: we convinced Carter, a 260lb guy, having done no cardio in the better part of a year, with nothing but a ten year old mountain bike, to come ride for an hour in the morning. Sixty miles later it seemed unlikely he was turning around. And he has hung tough all the way to Boston, MA.

Riding from DC was a reminder of just how ugly civilization can be. New Jersey has some of the worst sprawl I have ever seen. Mile after mile after mile of pavement in all directions that seems just as incredible and unnecessary as the 1,200 miles of corn field we ride across between Denver and Chicago. Along the way our camera, which I had just replaced the sound equipment for after my little mishap in Chicago, ceased to function. It will take more than two weeks to get warrantee service on it, and a HD camera rental costs about $300 per day plus a sizable deposit, so for the remainder of the trip we are going to be buying pro-sumer cameras and returning them before the 14-day return period ends. For any low budget film makers out there, it's the cheapest rentals you'll find.

We spent a few days in New York during which I interviewed, among others, Michael Gerrard of Arnold & Porter who recently completed a book called 'Climate Change & US Law". Michael walked me through the various laws and rulings related to climate change and what shape a price on carbon could take in coming years, whether it is a cap and trade, carbon tax, etc.

I spent two days in Hartford, catching up with college friends and giving a talk about the ride. When we pushed on to Boston, the weather decided we should not get to finish without a fight. It was cold and rainy, our feet were swimming in our shoes. But it made rolling into Boston all the more satisfying. We did not make it all the way to my house on the north shore of MA, but caught a train back so I could make it up to a climate change conference in Manchester, NH.

The two day conference was a who's who of the sustainable business world, and a great opportunity for me to get face time with these industry and policy leaders. I managed to wrangle interviews with presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Dennis Kucinich. It was great to get both a far left and far right leaning candidate saying that sustainability and climate change must be the defining issues of the next presidency. Click here to see interviews and report cards by the League of Conservation Voters for all presidential candidates.

I also cornered the president of the National Wildlife Federation to talk about biodiversity, and planned a trip next week to speak with Gary Hirshburg, president and CEO of Stonyfield Farms: one of the world's best examples of a transparent company striving for sustainability. Gary started a non-profit called Climate Counts which grades companies across all industries on their climate protection programs.

So now I am back in Boston and all that's left to do for the ride is find an appropriate pier to ride my bike off into the ocean. Don't worry, I promise I'll haul it back out... can't end an environmental mission of discovery with littering. From here I start taking the sixty of so hours of footage we have collected over the course of the ride and compile it into an award winning documentary. I will keep posting interviews for you guys so check back soon, and if anyone out there wants to sponsor the documentary; drop me a line. Otherwise I have some serious fundraising to do.

Thanks for following me the last three months. I hear the term life-changing experience enough that it doesn't usually carry much weight, but this project has and will continue to shape the course of my life. I have learned so much from so many amazing people and seen first hand what still exists of the diverse and beautiful world we have been given, that I would be remiss if I did not put all that I have gained to use in helping shape a more sustainable society.