Alaska Bound

Nathan Archer, who we hired in January after he graduated from University of Texas, is still riding his bike toward Anchorage, Alaska after leaving Austin, Texas on June 3rd. He is part of the Texas 4000 group cycling to raise money for the fight against cancer. They plan to arrive in Anchorage on August 11. They came through Colorado Springs while I was racing RAAM.

He posted a journal entry on Tuesday while they were taking a rest day in Prince George, BC. It sounds like he's tired but having a lot of fun. Actually I'm quite jealous. Several of them, including Nathan, got mohawks on the rest day so I'll have to see it when he gets back to work.

It's great that we work at a Fluke Networks that allows us the flexibility to pursue our dreams outside of work. I still need to work a couple extra days on the weekends to make up for the time off I didn't have that I used to recover from RAAM.

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