Hannah Glatter and I will be riding the Great Plains Gravel Route from Presidio, Texas, to Port of Fortuna, North Dakota. The Great Plains Gravel Route is a 3,500-mile gravel bikepacking route traversing the Great Plains Region from the Llano Estacado region of Texas to the rolling Flint Hills of Kansas, through the Nebraska’s prairies to the iconic Black Hills and Badlands of the Dakotas. Along the way we will be joined by Jacob Alexander, a science communicator / biologist and Dylan Trigg, founder of Triggered Media Company. They will be documenting our journey and showcasing the landscapes, communities and small towns along the route. We will also be raising money for Bikepacking Roots, which is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and advancement of bikepacking.