Hello to all viewers of our bike trip, this is Braden Speaking. I regret to inform you all that I have respectfully dropped out of this bike trip due to personal reasons. These reasons are many and complex so I wont indulge them all, but I should say that they are all important.

It is equally important to understand that this decision is a good thing for me, not a bad one. I am moving on towards a great part in my life that is exciting for me. I am perfectly healthy, physically fit and have faced no challenge in this trip that I could not accomplish. My reasons are my own and personal in nature. Specifically I have found that I have pressing personal matters that I wish to pursue. It is not that I find this bike trip pointless or without purpose, it is more that I no longer felt it was my place to be apart of it.

This said I reached this decision together with my brother Jordan and we are both happy for each other in what we have decided to do. I have nothing but good experiences with my brother on this trip and I wish him luck in continuing. I believe that his passion to see Canada and bring awareness to the need for food in Calgary is strong. I also believe that he will not fail on this trip; he has to much determination to quite either.

To end I would like to thank God for giving me the power to have made it as far as I have both in my life and on this bike trip. I would also like to thank all of those here and in other places that have supported me. And I hope that you would all continue in supporting my brother Jordan. Thank you so much.