The Trips

No travel company on Earth is running this trip — because none of them live here. Led personally by founder Jeff Svedahl from his home in Heber City, this is Utah as only a local knows it: slot canyons, remote mesa country, and a rodeo that will change what you think a Saturday night can be.

• Salt Lake City — arrival & orientation
• Heber City — Annual Rodeo & Demolition Derby
• San Rafael Swell — Little Wild Horse Canyon slot canyon
• Goblin Valley State Park — one of Earth's strangest landscapes
• Capitol Reef National Park — zero crowds, extraordinary color
• Grand Staircase-Escalante — vast, remote, genuinely wild
• Grand Canyon South Rim — a few powerful hours, then onward

The America most international visitors never see — and never forget once they do. Starting in Minneapolis, then northwest to a genuine off-road Baja race and county fair in rural Minnesota, through the Badlands, Devil's Tower, and ending in Denver.

• Minneapolis — city intro, Minnesota State Fair (seasonal)
• Fertile, MN — Annual Baja Race & County Fair
• Badlands National Park — jaw-dropping open landscape
• Wall Drug & Mt. Rushmore — iconic American roadside stops
• Devil's Tower, WY — one of America's most mysterious landmarks
• Denver — Red Rocks, craft beer, Rocky Mountain send-off

Music is America's greatest gift to the world, and nowhere is it more alive than Nashville and the surrounding Music Belt. Honky-tonks, the blues birthplace of Memphis, and the mandatory 1am Waffle House run in Atlanta.

• Nashville — Lower Broadway, Grand Ole Opry, local BBQ
• Franklin, TN — small-town charm, Civil War history
• Jack Daniel's Distillery, Lynchburg
• Memphis — Beale Street, Graceland, Central BBQ
• Birmingham — civil rights history, emerging food scene
• Atlanta — MLK Historic Site, Waffle House at 1am (required)

Four weeks. Coast to coast. The trip travelers talk about for the rest of their lives. New York to LA, deliberately avoiding the predictable and going deep into the America most tourists never reach — including New Orleans, Texas Buc-ee's country, and the Grand Canyon.

• New York City — Brooklyn Bridge, a real NYC deli
• Washington DC — the Mall, the Smithsonian
• Nashville & Memphis — music, BBQ, honky-tonks
• New Orleans — jazz, food, the most unique American city
• Texas Hill Country — Buc-ee's (mandatory), local BBQ
• Grand Canyon — a few powerful hours at the edge of the world
• Las Vegas — because everyone deserves one night
• Los Angeles — In-N-Out Burger, Santa Monica Pier, departure