Brothers bike 5,500 miles from Alaska to Texas to raise money for charity with stop in Bay Area

NAPA, Calif. (KRON) — If you were in Napa on Tuesday, you might have seen a big red RV with bikers riding behind it. Those bikers are two brothers making a 5,500-mile trip to raise money for charity. KRON4 caught up with them during their stop in the North Bay.

As their RV says, two brothers from Texas are making their way from Alaska back to their home in Texas, and they’re doing it on bikes. Not just because it’s a beautiful ride, but to raise money for important causes.

Bobby Jenkins, who is biking from Alaska to Texas, said, “We crossed 3,000 miles yesterday.”

Just past their halfway point, Bobby and Raleigh Jenkins have covered a lot of ground.

“It’s incredible. The mountains, the clouds. The only thing we didn’t think about was the mosquitoes,” Bobby said.

Traveling from Anchorage, Alaska to Austin, Texas, and they are doing it all on bikes.

The brothers did a similar trip eight years ago from Seattle to New York. But this journey is easily their longest and toughest yet — stopping in Napa on Tuesday to talk about the two charities they’re raising money for.

One is for children suffering from hunger in Haiti.

“We were there about two months, and the comment that was made that set on my heart was ‘thank you for not forgetting us,'” Raleigh said.

The second cause hits closer to home.

Bobby’s grandson, Moss, died in 2014 from a condition called Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood.

“He was perfectly healthy, went down for his morning nap and never woke up and come to find out this happens to about 400-600 children in this country, and it’s unexplained,” Bobby said.

They hope their donations will help find an explanation and prevent more deaths in children. Biking is the best way these two know how to raise awareness for the two causes.

Meeting strangers along the way and sharing their story one mile at a time. You can donate to the Jenkins’ cause on their website.