- December 26, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
A decade ago, Paul Harlin biked 127 miles on a rough, uneven stretch of Highway 12 leading from Santa Rosa to Stockton in the middle of the night to see his girlfriend and future wife, Angelica.
He didn’t have a car and he said he “just couldn’t wait to see her.”
“I opened the door and there he is at 10 o’clock in the morning,” said Angelica Harlin, 44. “He looked so tired and I was like ‘Oh my goodness, come in.’”
Now, their 14-year-old son, Adam Lacey, is training to pay tribute to the romantic gesture alongside his father as part of an eighth grade school assignment.
And his ride has been made possible by a bike donated from Trek Bicycle Santa Rosa.
The assignment, part of an extended project at SunRidge School in Sebastopol to explore and study a subject in-depth and demonstrate mastery at the end of the year. Adam will bike the same distance and repeat parts of the route to visit his grandparents in Lodi, while…
