Dustin is a master mechanic, expert sewer – he’s created many of our bags in addition to Katy’s custom cover, and is always ready to jump right into a new adventure. He has an amazing ability to figure out a way to accomplish a task with the resources at hand. At camp he is Katy wrangler, tent-setter-uper and food chopper for meal prep.
Patricia is tech support, route planner, spreadsheeter extraordinaire & grocery shopper. She is willing to try a new adventure after the idea has had time to simmer for days/months/years. At camp Patricia is the organizer, cook, electronics charger & Katy snuggler.
Katy is a Jack Russell “Terrorizer” who keeps us laughing and works hard as alarm system, marriage counselor, scrap eater (but quite picky), and snuggle bunny. For cycle touring Katy gets pedaled along by Dustin but he’s happy to let her run alongside when climbing uphill in low traffic situations. Katy rode the first 80 days of the journey with us from Fairbanks, Alaska to Seattle, Washington – for the rest of the trip she is living her best life with family in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Day 400 update (26 October 2025)
We have bicycled over 10,000 miles (16,000 km) from Fairbanks, Alaska to Quito, Ecuador traveling through 11 countries. In June of 2025 life changed and we bought a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina, USA, near Dustin’s brother and we took 4 months off the trip to travel to the USA and work on the cabin. Now we are back on the trip and will continue the adventure south.
Fat biking in Fairbanks, Alaska. Katy says “come on – let’s get going!”