There is some great pics in here. Sounds like a trip you won't soon forget.

I have to go to the store now and get some fresh shrimp for the grill.....

Dear God this is an awesome trip report.
Nothing really substantial to say other than thanks for sharing as the pictures are just absolutely beautiful to look at.

haha vn. i can bet that food taste 2x as good when your eating near the ocean.

Sick photos and nice TR. I presume all you guys are married as theres no stories of you getting into any girls. You shut def go to New Zealand, theres some amazing hikes to do in the south island. Have you ever been to Canada? If your really into hiking I would definitely make that a priority in the near future. Some of the photos I took from my hikes in Canada were out of this world.

Thanks and glad you liked it. Heh no, we were all actually single at the time - two of us recently out of really long relationships, one of us just starting one. Kept the NSFW out of the TR

We've been talking about going to both NZ and Canada actually. One of the guys doing this trip recently became a father and so is more or less out of commission for the near future. Me and one of the other guys are actually going back to the US this summer with another friend, for a slightly different route (I put up a thread asking for feedback in the forum, no responses so far unfortunately). Doing more of Colorado this time around. But yeah, both NZ and Canada are on my top 5 list of places to go. Gotta find a girl who's as into this as me

wow reading this has made me want to rethink my west coast part of the trip. I was gonna spend a week in vegas and a few days in LA now i dont wanna club or play poker at all). Is there anything close to LA that( 5hrs) or even vegas (im gonna go see grand canyon) that you can recommend.

also what a magnificent trip report I hate using cliche superlatives but it really was amazing fantastic etc