Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful

A great country and a great road trip. Great parks and great mountains.

This is the true story about the first in a series of road trips across America by Joseph Whelan, the author. Over the decades his travel time exceeded a year and the distance driven surpassed one hundred thousand miles. On this first trip of nineteen days, the journey was over eight thousand miles long and it and took him through twenty-three states. This is Ameritrekking.

Along the way he hiked to his first highpoints. ...