Family loses house, hits the road

California family of nine biking across America

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Cookie Wiebe/Special to the Kansan

The Fox family, all nine of them, are on a bike trek across the country. They started from their hometown in Castroville, Calif., and hope to finish their trip in Maine.

  

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By Chad Frey
Posted Aug 20, 2008 @ 10:41 AM
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When you lose your house, and your job, what do you do? For Bill Fox, it’s get the seven kids and the wife together and start bicycling — across the country.

“As a father, I was noticing that it was rare when we were all sitting in one place,” Fox said.

The Fox family passed through Newton this week, on their trek across the country on the Transamerica Bicycle Trail.

For the complete story, see the print edition of the Kansan.

When you lose your house, and your job, what do you do? For Bill Fox, it’s get the seven kids and the wife together and start bicycling — across the country.

“As a father, I was noticing that it was rare when we were all sitting in one place,” Fox said.

The Fox family passed through Newton this week, on their trek across the country on the Transamerica Bicycle Trail.

For the complete story, see the print edition of the Kansan.

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