The route shows us what it wants us to see. It was created to keep us going, grinding, pushing, following directions, staying on track.

Even for a woman like Katie Jo Myers, who now spends most of her time dangling from cliffs by her fingertips, leaping from ledges hundreds of feet high, and either…

Patrick McFarland had the life many aspire to. He had a great job in the city; lived in a nice place outside of Philly, had a dog, a sense of…

Sometimes it takes getting lost to find your way again. And, it’s the tracks along the journey that tell the tale. The origin of Off Route is the climax of such…

It’s a cold, gray winter morning in coastal North Carolina; not the stuff of tourist brochures. The wind before dawn—4 a.m., in fact—brings a chill best suited for staying in…

At age 24, never having cycled more than a few miles (except for a 20-mile training stint), Jamie Penn jumped on a plane with her mom to ride 40 or so…

We scouted midcoast Maine by bike for four days, hoping to intimately connect to the place people swear is magic. It totally worked. We were on a quest for both…

Out Here tells the story of what you find Off Route; people doing real things – working with their hands, fixing things because they can, sitting together, loving without words,…