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La Cañada man continues his ride for tetanus

Attorney Bob Burlison, Jr. of La Canada Flintridge, 60, at Lutheran Church of the Foothills with his new BMW GTL 1600 motorcycle in La Canada Flintridge on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Burlison embarked on a fundraising, 1,400¿mile road trip across the entire lower 48 U.S. states to break the Guinness Record for continuous motorcycle driving in one country. The trip raises funds for the KURE project, which aims to eradicate tetanus.
Attorney Bob Burlison, Jr. of La Canada Flintridge, 60, at Lutheran Church of the Foothills with his new BMW GTL 1600 motorcycle in La Canada Flintridge on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Burlison embarked on a fundraising, 1,400¿mile road trip across the entire lower 48 U.S. states to break the Guinness Record for continuous motorcycle driving in one country. The trip raises funds for the KURE project, which aims to eradicate tetanus.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
By Tiffany Kelly, <i><a href=”mailto:tiffany.kelly@latimes.com”>tiffany.kelly@latimes.com</a></i>
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Three weeks after leaving La Cañada Flintridge on his motorcycle, Bob Burlison has made it through more than a dozen states.

The lawyer and longtime Kiwanis Club of La Cañada-AM member is set to arrive in Florida this week as part of a three-month-long tour of Kiwanis clubs in support of the Eliminate Project, according to his blog.

The Eliminate Project supports the thousands of children and mothers who die from maternal and neonatal tetanus every year. The project is an effort by Kiwanis and UNICEF. Burlison left on May 27.

Since then, he has ridden more than 2,700 miles, visiting Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kansas, Mississippi and several other states. His goal is to break a Guinness World Record and ride more than 11,200 miles in one country.

Burlison has detailed his experiences in a regularly updated blog at https://www.kure2013.com/blog. Last week, he described the Germantown Kiwanis Club in Memphis as “a wonderfully active, funny, intelligent and respectful club.”

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