Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

Denali, Alaska

Grizzly Bear - Denali National Park, Alaska

Virgen del Carmen Festival - Paucartambo, Peru

Sayulita, Mexico

Machu Picchu, Peru

Gentoo Penguins, Antarctica

Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador

Festival of Santo Tomás - Chichicastenango, Guatemala

Jaguar - Pantanal, Brazil

Northern Lights - Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada

Rainbow Mountain, Peru

Chaccu de Vicuña - Peru

Road to Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah Border

Maculis Beach, El Salvador

Marine Iguana, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Marine Iguanas, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Gracias, Honduras

Golden Cownose Rays - Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Red-Footed Booby - Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Calgary Stampede Rodeo - Alberta, Canada

Quilotoa Crater, Ecuador

Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

Yosemite National Park, California

The Trans-Americas Journey road trip
traveling in the Americas since 2006

Two travel journalists and a truck traveling full-time in the Americas to uncover fresh information about where to go, what to eat, where to sleep, and what to do in North, Central, and South America so you can travel better.

Welcome to the mother of all American road trips!

Trans-Americas Journey Truck - Valley of Fire

FULL-TIME TRAVEL FOR MORE THAN 16 YEARS... AND COUNTING

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On the Road in the Americas Since 2006

Two travel journalists and a truck traveling full time in the Americas to uncover fresh information about where to go, what to eat, where to sleep, and what to do in North, Central, and South America so you can travel better.

Welcome to the mother of all American road trips!

FULL-TIME TRAVEL FOR MORE THAN 16 YEARS... AND COUNTING

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Who We Are & What We’re Doing

Who We Are

We are writer Karen Catchpole and photographer Eric Mohl and we believe travel journalists should travel. In 2006 we left our jobs and apartment in New York City and embarked on our Trans-Americas Journey working road trip through the Americas. We’ve been on the road through North, Central and South America full time ever since. We freelance from the road and we produce the Trans-Americas Journey travel blog.

Meet Us

What We're Doing

In 2006 we got in a truck and started exploring our own vast backyard—the Americas. We wanted to better understand how we fit in with our continental neighbors, all of whom are also American by the way (which explains the “s” after America in our name). Our goal is to make the Trans-Americas Journey the ultimate independent road trip through the Americas and to inspire you to travel in North, Central, and South America too.

What is the Trans-Americas Journey?