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I ended up having the best parents in the world, and so at the end of the day, what I really wanted to come up with was … you know, on this trip I even got to deal with the Kansas Children’s Service League which was the agency I was adopted from. When I went through Kansas, I got to visit some of the people who were there when I was being adopted from there. So I got to tell them thanks.
What I really wanted to accomplish on this was to give kids who are awaiting adoption the same opportunities that I’ve had by being adopted. I want them to realize there is a purpose for their lives, and that God doesn’t make mistakes. There’s a specific purpose for them, and I want them to help them get into a home where they can develop, you know, whatever they were meant to do.
CP: Besides the adoption agency in Kansas, are there any other stops on the trip that you felt were kind of significant for you or touched you in any way?
Schultz: Yeah, I would say that, number one, we stopped in a town called Eskridge, Kan., on the way. It was so small. There’s only like three or four hundred people there. But we got a knock on our door at like 6 o’clock in the morning, and there was a lady named Mazie – M-a-z-i-e, I believe – and she had just made about three dozen cinnamon rolls for us. That was definitely nice.
Her story was that she had her own kids, and she wanted a swimming pool for the city. So she started collecting cans and tried to gather enough to build a swimming pool. At first, everyone laughed at her, but they saw how much money she was bringing in. People ended up giving her their cans and would bring it to her. Anyways, they were able to build a city pool with those cans, and they just kept bringing her cans because they didn’t know what else to do with them. That pool is funded, year after year – the taxes, the people that work there, all the work that goes into the pool – is funded by the cans. And so I thought that was really cool. That was a cool story.
Another one was that people would ride with us from time to time, and there was a mom who brought her three sons; they were nine, ten, and twelve. They were from Poland; the boys had just been adopted from Poland a few years ago, and they had raised a few thousand dollars and came out to ride. They had made me a little outfit to wear, a jersey, and on the back of the jersey it said, ‘Dare to do great things.’
Their whole thing was that they had been adopted from Poland, and they had a great experience. They wanted to help raise money so that their friends who were still waiting to be adopted in Poland would be able get benefits from them and they too would be adopted some day and have a similar life to how they had. I thought that was awesome that they were getting involved in that way.
CP: You had a video journal that you kept while you did your bike tour, and I saw that you ended up outlasting your tour bus. That must feel pretty good.
Schultz: Well, anytime you can outdo the bus on a cross country tour, you have got to feel good. I would have thought it would have been the other way around. Man, that felt pretty good, and I was just grateful to have a bus and still have some time to spread out. Continue »
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