The Back up Plan

Starting in Wendover, Utah at the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats, we worked our way up through Idaho, a bit of Montana, across Eastern Washington and through the entire state of Oregon. We camped remotely and our buddy Rob drove a chase van full of firewood, food and cold beers. As the summer of discontent ground down the souls of a polarized nation, we quit caring about news and feedback loops and just enjoyed the outdoors and cantakerous old motorcycles. We talked very little about current events, stayed off our phones and focused on stuff like why a bike wouldn’t start or where the next hot spring was. It felt like the healthiest thing we’d done in months–and that was exactly the point.