About the Ron Paul Riders

Michael Maresco

I am a 45-year-old artist and world traveller, originally from the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. For the last 20 years I called Hawaii my home. I like to play ukulele and 'talk story' with friends. In recent years I've earned my keep as a rigger and stage technician.

In the past, I fished with a salmon fleet and sailed 26,000 blue miles on fancy yachts; hitchhiked the eastern coastlines of America and Australia, backpacked in China, kayaked around South Pacific isles solo, and more. Now I have put most everthing on hold to campaign for Ron Paul.

In July of this year, I spread the message of liberty in a 5-day, 130-mile walk on Oahu. This bike trip won't be be the biggest adventure of my life, but it will be the greatest so far, and one that I hope will help change the direction of our country.

Damon Talbot

Started the ride during the Southern California wildfires when illness forced him to drop back to support level.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." ~ Theodore Roosevelt