Hey Mom, Can I Ride My Bike Across America?: Five Kids Meet Their Country

Dead Poets Society meets Stand By Me as 5 real 12- and 13-yr.-olds ride their bicycles 5,000 miles across America. They want to see if their country is as wonderful as their teacher says it is.

John Seigel Boettner is a husband, dad, teacher, cyclist and author in Santa Barbara, California. He and his wife Lynn have two children Jacob and Isaac, and have led groups of young people on bicycle journeys in Canada, Japan, Ireland, Austria, and all over America. When the four of them aren't off on some adventure, you'll see them pedaling alongside the beaches and mountains of their hometown. They're the ones with long line of bicycle riding kids behind them.