The Road Ahead

Bryant hopes to average 60 miles a day for the next two months, arriving in Memphis in time for the March 20 meeting of the National Ataxia Foundation.

"Nobody knows about ataxia (even doctors as I found out)," says Bryant, who works as an environmental engineer in Sacramento, California. "That is why I am riding across the country. This disease needs some attention. It is estimated that one in every 50,000 Americans has Friedreich's ataxia, yet nobody even knows about it."