Content warning: Some specific references to gender-based violence.   3,000 miles to help raise awareness about intimate partner violence and men’s roles in challenging this violence. That was the main purpose of my bike ride from Amherst, MA to Seattle, WA in 1995. It also was a fundraiser for the now defunct Men’s Resource Center of Western Massachusetts, though in many ways that really was secondary.   Remember, this was before the internet was widely used, so my typical approach