Middletown man on cross-country bike trek to help homeless veterans

By Carrie Simonelli

Hart left his Middletown home Saturday and began a 4,000-mile bicycle trek that will take him down the East Coast, then west to California. He plans to ride 60 miles a day, stopping at Veterans Administration hospitals and centers along the way, all the while chronicling his trip on social media. His goal: to raise money and gain support to better the lives of homeless veterans.

“My main message is to raise awareness that these men and women who served our country now need our help,” says Hart, 28. “It’s to get people to open their eyes to them.”

He plans to interview homeless veterans at the centers, and to create videos of their stories, which he will post on the Facebook page he created for the ride —facebook.com/RoadWarriorCyclist.

Hart, who recently resigned from his full-time job as a sales representative to concentrate on the trip, also worked part-time as a pedicab driver in Newport. On a bike taxi ride this summer, a passenger said something that struck a chord for him. The man, a Veterans Administration employee, was talking about homeless veterans when “I just made a connection,” Hart says, “just hearing those words together.”

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