2,300 Miles Downstream: a search for happiness

Reaching the Grand Tetons, just south of Yellowstone, a few years ago on my first bike tour across North America. Ended up spending a week trekking through those beautiful mountains leaving me with unforgettable memories before crossing over the continental divide into the Midwest and beyond. Looking forward to the open road and new adventures this coming summer/fall ✨🌲🙌

-35, ice crystals, & a little sunlight = magic 🌈☃️ #yukon #winterwonderland (at Yukon)

Still from my upcoming "Into Dreams" music video. Was fortunate to have this shot in some of my favourite places in and outside of Greater Vancouver : ) #vancouvermusic #outdoormusic

Beach days while cruising/road tripping back up the west coast with this one ❤️ Santa Barbara is a little slice of heaven! 🙌 #explorecalifornia #roadtrip (at Santa Barbara Beach)

This pretty much sums up my exploration by bicycle of San Francisco 😂 #hillsaremyfriend

Well friends, after bicycling over 4,300 km this summer from my family home in the Yukon, playing music in bars, coffee shops, restaurants, community halls, houses, parks, beaches, wilderness lodges and state parks, I have sold out all the CD's I've brought with me and have decided to end my journey and grassroots tour this year in San Francisco, California. Riding the length of Vancouver island, the 101 through Washington and Oregon and the some of the Highway 1 north of here helped me realize in greater depth how special the west coast really is, and inso I want to wait until the rest of Highway 1 south of me in Big Sur is fixed in the coming seasons before touring down to San Diego and beyond. It's hard to describe in a few words what this tour has meant to me.. two years ago I began with a canoe journey in the heart of Peel River Watershed in northern Yukon, one of the largest pieces of untouched wildernesses left in North America. I paddled the Wind River with my friend David, 600 km north to Fort Macpherson, Northwest Territories above the Arctic Circle, before riding my dad's old mountain bike from the 80's (that I used to ride on the back of as a baby) south down a 700 km of dirt road from Inuvik to Dawson City. In the time since then, I have recorded two albums and taken ole blue Bessie over 6000+ km south through my hometown of Whitehorse down the length of the Yukon, British Columbia, and now most of the West Coast of the US. The experiences, landscapes, flora and fauna, people, towns, and communities I have met, traveled with and through, have enriched me beyond what one post can do justice.. but I hope to pour the gratitude I feel into new music and eventually attempt a book or two. While this chapter may be coming to a close, the journey is far from over.. I eventually will return and hope to take that old mountain bike all the way to the tip of South America. For everyone who has encouraged, helped, and inspired me to live my dream, I could never thank you enough.. You are the salt of the earth and I hope that I will be able to pay it forward in my own way in the years to come. Peace and love, - T #bicycletouring #lifeisanadventure

My new Shwalbe ultra marathon plus tire was supposed to be nearly indestructible.. that was before it met this rusty nail on the 101 😂 Also scrounger tip.. utensils make surprisingly good replacements as bike levers ✨👌 #biketouring #roadlife

Breakfast for champions when riding a 100+ km a day 😂 #bicycletouring (at Humboldt Redwoods State Park)

Humboldt Redwood State Park has 1/5th of all the remaining old growth redwoods in the world. I felt so fortunate to ride under these majestic giants that can well over 2000+ years and on average contain 7 times the biomass of the amazon rainforest of equal area. Definitely puts things in perspective when you think of the centuries these trees have weathered and have continued to grow through, harbouring sustained life and vitality as humans live out countless generations of idealism, folly, hopes, dreams, good and bad deeds, delusions of grandeur and self importance, only to rise and fall from dust to dust while these trees remain in awe inspiring endurance and tranquility season to season. I hope some of these ancient old growth trees can continue to survive, thrive, and outlive us. There is a lot we can learn from them. #oldgrowth #bicycletouring #explorecalifornia (at Humboldt Redwoods State Park)

Just another day in the office of redwoods with Paul Bunyan 😄 #bicycletouring

The bears in California so far are a lot friendlier than Northern BC/Yukon 😂 #bicycletouring

Goodbye Oregon; Hello California! 3400 km peddled from the Yukon so far since July, 1230 km left to San Diego ☀️💫 #bicycletouring #albumtour

The beaches of Oregon have brought forth some fresh inspiration..! ☀️ ✨ Just finished writing the 3rd song for my next EP which I plan to record/release sometime next year 💫 #songwriting #exploreoregon

Is this real life..? ☀️🙌 #exploreoregon #bicycletouring

One of the many perks of riding a bicycle down the west coast: Oregon beaches for days.. ✨☀️🙌 #bicycletouring #exploreoregon (at Neskowin, Oregon)

On May 19th, 2012 I started my first ever bicycle tour in Astoria, Oregon and over the course of two summers went across North America to Portland, Maine busking in towns along the way to fund my journey. 10,000+ km of biking, 4000+ km of canoeing, 2 albums, and a little over 5 years later, I have come full circle back to that fateful day to the same place, now bicycling the length of North America over the last few summers from Inuvik in the Arctic Circle to San Diego on a grassroots album tour. Hard to describe the feelings of coming back to the beginning, thinking of the many miles, stories, storms, friends, and songs that have come in to my life since that day, but if I was to sum it up into one word.. it would be gratitude. #bicycletouring #adventureofalifetime

Crystal clear waters in some of the ruggedly beautiful back country of the remote Wind River, Yukon Territory, Canada.