“I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.” — Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, 1968
Hi,
My name is Mark. I love my wife, our kids, and our idiot cat. This is my mid-life crisis. Perhaps it’s a bit cliché. I figure if not now, when? We are not promised tomorrow. I could do it the “right” way, but sometimes we don’t reach the “right time.” Now is the time. Who knows what tomorrow brings?
Follow along. Laugh along with me on my Lifetime of Experience.
A Lifetime of Experience 
Mark, wondering where you are bud. I’ve been following your adventure and looks like you got off the trail in CO a bit and haven’t moved in a couple of days. I also wanted to know how you plugged in the Garmin map to your blog? I just built my blog on wordpress and want to use the same plugin. I start the trail July 9th from Andrews NC.
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JB,
All is well. Made a planned stop in Colorado at a good friend’s house to wait on the high passes to open. Been ridin’ dirt bikes and relaxing. Working of pieces of the blog.
Adding the InReach to the blog was just a matter of placing a link to my MapShare page with Garmin on the blog.
The Google map that’s embedded, is a My Maps I built using the .gpx files I built using Sam’s and Kevin’s tracks and then adding some of my own POIs to theirs.
Hope that helps!
Good luck!
Mark
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Wow, very impressed with your trip! I’m in the planning stages of the TAT for 2020 and I’ve got the bug really bad! It looks like you stopped blogging early on. I would love to see more. Did you get to Port Orford?
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Scott,
Yes, I did regrettably stop writing about the trip fairly early on. It was very hard to write each night which I’d originally wanted to do. It was even harder to write “in the moment” days after the fact. Once I hit Colorado and beyond, the experience for me became less about documenting it and more about living it in the now.
I did indeed make it Port Orford. I bought a pickup in Eugene, put the bike in the back, flew my wife out, and we took the scenic route home to NC. Once home, I sold the truck for what I had in it.
It was an experience that I will never forget and I cherish every memory from that summer.
You’re gonna love it.
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