MIDDLE RIVER, MD The idea was initially hatched over a year ago, when Nikki Bozeman began talking to her husband, Bradley, about a cro s country RV tour. They were already considering a long vacation after this upcoming Super Bowl and figured they might as well combine their wanderlust with their true pa sion and calling combating and preventing bullying in our schools.Bozeman, the starting left guard whose proposal to Nikki two years ago after winning the national title with Alabama went viral, has been championing bullied and at-risk children since his college days, with the couple devoting themselves to The Bradley And Nikki Bozeman Foundation in their spare time. Helping kids has become their vocation, so what better way to expand the breadth of their me sage and embrace their love of the open road than to cri scro s the United States in an RV for six weeks, driving over 5,000 miles, addre sing more than 12,000 kids in 18 schools with stops in 16 states along the way. They'll leave their home outside of Baltimore on Feb. 10 in a donated RV the couple recently purchased a house after living in an RV for their first two years with the Ravens and return on the evening of March 23, giving them about a week in their new home before the Ravens offseason workout program begins. The couple is doing all of their Tyler Johnson Jersey own driving and identified and contacted all of their schools themselves as well, putting together a winter tour to rival anything Garth Brooks ever attempted (the Bozemans are country fans), all for the noblest of causes.This will be quite a unique road trip."It really started from our Facebook page for the foundation," Nikki Bozeman told me recently over a seafood dinner before Bradley's appearance at an autograph signing in Baltimore County. "We've had people contact us from all over the country like, 'Hey, we're in Arizona, we'll pay for your flight if you just come out and speak.' Or, 'Hey, we're in Texas and we want you to speak to our middle school.' So we got a few of those, and I was like, 'That's fine, we'll definitely go there eventually.' "And then we started to get more and more requests and I was like, 'Wow, there' Joe Harris Jersey s actually a decent amount of people out there who appreciate our me sage.' And we're already living in an RV so why don't we just take it cro s country? And that's where the idea really started probably about a year ago. And now it's almost here.She didn't have to sell her husband. He was already simpatico the Bozemans are an adorable couple who finish each other's sentences without trying and convey a deep affection in mundane ways and couldn't wait to start what would become months of detailed planning."We were both on the same page, really," said Bradley, a fifth-round pick in 2018 who toggled between guard and center before his breakthrough 2019 season. "Once it started things just started rolling and people were calling in from different places. I was like, 'Heck yeah, let's do it! We'll get to travel and see the country - really almost the whole United States - and we get to speak to schools at the same time and support our cause.' We jumped at the opportunity." Planning and preparingSome schools had already reached out to the Bozemans in the past about speaking on campus, but most of the trip was booked by cold-calling principles and school officials around the country. The couple wanted to reach as wide a swath of students as po sible rural, urban, affluent and those of fewer means which required hours of research and negotiation, including how close they could get the schools given the 28-foot vehicle they would be traveling in."The first step in the proce s was, A - where do we want to go?" said Nikki, who played basketball at Alabama but has become a football expert from years of helping her husband study his playbook. "And B - where is the campground and how close is it to where we want to be? Because we're going to be driving in the middle of February, so not all campgrounds are open. And once we found campgrounds that were open, then I found a school in that area. So we're doing high-population schools and low-population schools DeAndre Jordan Jersey . Some schools are low-income and some are higher income. We're trying to do the widest range of schools that we can."Long nights were spent on the phone calling schools out on the West Coast, and there has been constant communication between the Bozemans and their locally based agents Seth Katz and Alan Hobbs at AMG Pro Sports trying to iron out the details. "There really hasn't been a day that has gone by that I haven't talked to Alan about this," Nikki said. "This is all a testament to Bradley and Nikki," Hobbs said. "They've done the work. If anything I'm just helping to get as many sponsors and contributors as we can."The Bozemans have secured sponsorships with Pepsi, Dover Raceway, General Tire, local auto dealers and others Nicolas Claxton Jersey to help offset the extensive travel costs for this endeavor (to find out more and contribute go to )."It takes a lot of support to put this together," Nikki said. "We need media support, we need physical support, we need word-of-mouth support, we need financial support. It takes a whole team to do this, and we're trying to grow the team, so support is all we're asking for." This has been a labor of love, including having to take mandatory on-line tutorials and tests in order to get certified to speak to children in several of the school districts they are visiting, spending hours on trucking apps to make sure the roads they are taking allow for a vehicle of their size.The work being done by the Bozemans has become fairly well known in Maryland, their adopted home, but le s so when they began reaching out to schools far away. They had to explain their outreach program to some school officials who were unaware or skeptical."Around here you say your husband plays on the Ravens and you want to talk about anti-bullying, and it's like, 'Please come to our school!'" Nikki said. "But when you are calling a school in California they're like, 'Excuse me, what is a Raven? What are you talking about'? And I'm like, 'The NFL team.' And they're like, 'You mean the ?' "And I'm like, 'No the Baltimore Ravens.' Some were still so confused. And in some school districts you have to go and get certified just to be able to come into the school and interact with the children. There are so many things that come up along the way, so it's been really interesting."The Bozeman's me sageBoth Bozemans were victims of bullying as children. Bradley was teased mercile sly for being "short and fat," while Nikki was usually the tallest in her cla s, often hovering above the boys. They experienced the cruelty firsthand, and it was their mi sion even before they were married to try to make as many schools as po sible more loving, tolerant and empathetic.The response they have received from so many children, teachers and parents in the past makes all Chris Chiozza Jersey the time and energ