There have been a couple of postings here on this forum about Ivan Stoltzfus and his driving an antique John Deere A across the United States in an attempt to raise funds for the Wounded Warrior Project.
I met him when he was in the Quad Cities area, in Illinois and took several pictures of him and his tractor which he has named Johnabilt because it has a 1984 Peterbilt cab installed to keep him out of the weather.
I am finding it a little frustrating to find details about his daily life on the road, as it seems his web site blog is not updated daily, and contains no writings of people who meet him.
When he was in the Quad Cities, his web site said he was going to be here for a few days, so, it was expected when the tracking map showed him not moving around much while he was here.
But up until this morning, he has been in a small town in western Iowa for several days, and I cannot find anything to indicate whether this was a planned prolonged stay or maybe if there was something wrong.
It stands to reason that there are probably members of this group who are close to Le Mars, Iowa and have met him and know whether this was a planned longer term stop.
Right now, the tracker map shows him moving, he is only a few miles from the South Dakota border, he will be there shortly.
I do not see the possibility of continued chatting about him happening on this group, but, I do propose an email group where any member could post messages about Ivan and his effort.
Some of you may not be familiar with email groups, they are simply a group of members who can each send an email message to the one group address, and every member of the group receives a copy of that message in an email, that looks like the message was sent to the recipient only.
I set up such a group a few days ago, but, I have not publicized it until now, hopefully some of you will take a look, and maybe join. All messages will be about Ivan and his attempt to cross America in that John Deere tractor.
When I knew he was approaching the Quad Cities, I looked for such a group, I had hopes that there was a group where I could read what folks had to say who had talked to him recently, and could tell us more than what was on his web site.
I found no such group.
The group I started is at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/helpamericanheroes/info
You can join by sending a blank email, nothing in the subject line, nothing in the body, to:
[email protected] You will receive a confirmation email from Yahoogroups that you will need to reply to, it might go into your spam folder (some software regards it as spam, so you need to check if you don't see the confirmation message right away).
Update: Right now at 10:00 AM Central , he appears to be stopped at a Caseys gas station, only a few hundred feet from the South Dakota border.
I met him when he was in the Quad Cities area, in Illinois and took several pictures of him and his tractor which he has named Johnabilt because it has a 1984 Peterbilt cab installed to keep him out of the weather.
I am finding it a little frustrating to find details about his daily life on the road, as it seems his web site blog is not updated daily, and contains no writings of people who meet him.
When he was in the Quad Cities, his web site said he was going to be here for a few days, so, it was expected when the tracking map showed him not moving around much while he was here.
But up until this morning, he has been in a small town in western Iowa for several days, and I cannot find anything to indicate whether this was a planned prolonged stay or maybe if there was something wrong.
It stands to reason that there are probably members of this group who are close to Le Mars, Iowa and have met him and know whether this was a planned longer term stop.
Right now, the tracker map shows him moving, he is only a few miles from the South Dakota border, he will be there shortly.
I do not see the possibility of continued chatting about him happening on this group, but, I do propose an email group where any member could post messages about Ivan and his effort.
Some of you may not be familiar with email groups, they are simply a group of members who can each send an email message to the one group address, and every member of the group receives a copy of that message in an email, that looks like the message was sent to the recipient only.
I set up such a group a few days ago, but, I have not publicized it until now, hopefully some of you will take a look, and maybe join. All messages will be about Ivan and his attempt to cross America in that John Deere tractor.
When I knew he was approaching the Quad Cities, I looked for such a group, I had hopes that there was a group where I could read what folks had to say who had talked to him recently, and could tell us more than what was on his web site.
I found no such group.
The group I started is at: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/helpamericanheroes/info
You can join by sending a blank email, nothing in the subject line, nothing in the body, to:
[email protected] You will receive a confirmation email from Yahoogroups that you will need to reply to, it might go into your spam folder (some software regards it as spam, so you need to check if you don't see the confirmation message right away).
Update: Right now at 10:00 AM Central , he appears to be stopped at a Caseys gas station, only a few hundred feet from the South Dakota border.
