Startup time

So we had this idea for a vacation, now we needed to make it happen. We gleaned ALOT from the video production ideas of the guys from the Big Trip videos.

We put everything onto paper and realized that our trip was huge. It was going to be truly Epic! Every destination is a place that people go and spend days at. We were going to be tasting a little bit of everything while still leaving some room for exploration.

Since the trip would be on limited time (7 days) we needed to make every hour count, which is why we decided to go by way of motorcycle. That way, commuting from one place to another was just as much of an attraction as the destinations. We first thought about driving our Versys and KLR out there but that would take 2.5 days each way and eat up most of our time. So we found red eye tickets basically from sunday to sunday and decided to rent motorcycles from Kevin at Colorado Mountain Moto.

There was no way we could afford to stay in hotels and we would actually prefer not to, so we put all our camping gear together and made a list of what we needed. Quickly we realized with the cost of the odds and ends gear, rented motorcycles, air fare, food and park pass, this trip was going to be expensive. We didn't want to come back from the vacation and be terribly in debt, so we found the cheapest option for everything we can. Still we needed help but we are lucky to have many friends and we started a kickstarter type crowd funding site. We gave it a short run of 15 days and a small goal of $500, we reached that quickly and we amazed by our friends!