I thought of all my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing about.
--> Jack Kerouac




The trip commenced June 5th and concluded August 6th, 2005. Please read our detailed mission.



"This little fleet, although not quite so respectable as that of Columbus or Captain Cook, was still viewed by us with as much pleasure as those deservedly famed adventurers ever beheld theirs, and, I daresay, with quite as much anxiety for their safety and preservation. We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never trod. The good or evil it had in store for us was for experiment yet to determine, and these little vessels contained every article by which we were to expect to subsist or defend ourselves. However, as the state of mind in which we are, generally gives the coloring to events, when the imagination is suffered to wander into futurity, the picture which now presented itself to me was a most pleasing one.

"Entertaining as I do the most confident hope of succeeding in a voyage which had formed a darling project of mine for the last ten years, I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life. The party are in excellent health and spirits, zealously attached to the enterprise, and anxious to proceed. Not a whisper or murmur of discontent to be heard among them, but all act in unison and with the most perfect harmony."

--> Meriwether Lewis, April 7th, 1805

From Shelton, CT to Acworth, NH

To Cambridge, MA

To Narragansett, RI

To NYC

To Warren, NJ

To Philadelphia

To Washington, D.C.

To Shenandoah, VA

To Charlotte, NC

To Atlanta

To Auburn, AL

To Biloxi, MS

To New Orleans

To Plano, TX

To Memphis, TX

To Santa Fe, NM

To Carlsbad, NM

To Hatch, NM

To Sedona, AZ

To Las Vegas

To Los Angeles

To Lompoc, CA

To Pescadero, CA

To Eugene, OR

To Portland, OR

To Boise, ID

To West Yellowstone, MT

To Jackson Hole, WY

To Lander, WY

To Pringle, SD

To Mitchell, SD

To Mapleton, IA

To Omaha, NE

To Iowa City, IA

To Milwaukee, WI

To Chicago

To Cleveland, OH

To Shelton, CT