Hoby Paulk Hoby Paulk plans to ride a WaveRunner from Key West, Florida to New York City nonstop. He will travel over 1,200 miles, 10+ days battling sun, ocean waves, fatigue, and weather. Hoby will not step foot on land or any boat. He will ride, eat and sleep on the ski. He will be departing from Key West, Florida sometime around Nov. 3rd, 4th or 5th. Jeff Conn, Project Manager Jeff Conn is the owner of Sign Us www.signusonline.com, a sign and screen printing shop located in Ozark MO. He has been screen printing shirts since 1990. In that process he has designed, printed, traveled and sold t-shirts for Tulsa State Fair, Missouri State Fair, Arkansas State Fair, Louisiana State Fair, The Ozark Empire Fair and Darryl Starbirds Rod & Custom Car Shows. He has also  toured with David Allan Coe for seven years and Mel McDaniel for one year road managing, designing, printing and selling t-shirts. Jeff has owned operated several businesses from t-shirts to signs to souvenirs to entertainers concessions.

Jeff is the designer and producer of all the t-shirts and concessions for Come Join The Ride, as well as playing a part in web updates for the site. He is in contact with Hoby on a daily basis and has been since they met in Feb. 04. All of his time spent with or for Come Join The Ride  as well as all our "Team" is on a donation basis only. Jeff heard the message that Hoby is spreading and knew that he had to get involved and help in any way that he could. He followed Hoby up the coast via land provided Hoby with daily support and assistance, as needed. He encourages you to do the same and give him a call @ 417-581-4543 or e-mail @ jeff@signusdomains.com

Jazz, Internet Development

Jazz is the current web designer/developer.  She built the current site with the intent that Come Join the Ride is a Team effort and as such should be available to all involved.  The system on which it is built is so easy to use, that all team members have access to edit the content of this website without any HTML knowledge and from any computer with internet access.  Jazz works closely with Jeff on this and several other projects.  She heard about Hoby's message by accident when she and Jeff were working on a different website.  She too felt compelled to become involved with Come Join The Ride as Jeff had.  She modified the website on a daily basis during the November 2004 Ride with pictures that Jeff took and sent by email from his phone, created the progress map and wrote the daily story after getting updates from Jeff and Hoby.