Please email me while I’m on the road. It will be highly disappointing, should I roll into a small-town public library somewhere in Manitoba, to check my email with the sole benefit of deleting the scads of spam I’ve accrued since the last time I was able to check my email.
| US cell phone (emergencies only, please) | |||
| 425.445.0765 | Donation Levels | ||
| La Push | $5 | ||
| text (emergencies only, please) | Cascades | $10 | |
| 4254450765@tmomail.net | Okanagon | $20 | |
| Jasper, Alberta | $50 | ||
| email (preferred) | Sault Ste. Marie | $75 | |
| email@williamgerdes.com | Erie Canal | $100 | |
| West Quody Head | $200 | ||
More about donations:
It is certainly not expected nor required that you donate to my trek. Your interest and emotional support is enough. That said, donations in any amount are accepted. Donations of specific levels receive the listed benefits. If you would prefer a different benefit than those listed in exchange for your donation, please propose something:
La Push: Gets you a shout-out on the blog.
Cascades: Gets you a shout-out on the blog and a postcard from the road.
Okanagon: Gets you a shout-out on the blog and two postcards from the road.
Jasper, Alberta: Gets you a shout-out on the blog, two postcards from the road, and a souvenir item (for example, a shot glass, an enameled key chain, a t-shirt, a discarded license plate).
Sault Ste. Marie: Gets a shout-out on the blog, two postcards from the road, and I’ll take a photo from the road with any item of your choosing (for example, garden gnome, lawn flamingo, stuffed animal). Does not include shipping/handling of the item.
Erie Canal: Gets a shout-out on the blog, two postcards from the road, and I will challenge a Canadian Mounty or other law enforcement officer or other burly, humorless individual to some form of wrestling (freestyle, leg, greco-roman, thumb, et al).
West Quody Head: Gets a shout-out on the blog, two postcards from the road, and I will offer an installment of my lecture series on a topic of our mutual agreement and in a location of our mutual agreement.