So my brother and I had been off-roading together for a few years on local trails around Tennessee just with the couple of jeeps that he had and about five years ago in 2015 he came to me and asked if I wanted to do one of these long off-road trips with him to which I was automatically all in. I was like yeah of course you know how long of a trailer you think and then he's like well it's it's called the Trans-America Trail and it's about 5,000 miles and I had spring break coming up and so I said you know I can certainly just take my break and let's try and do it and so he responded he said yeah let's just knock out as much as we can because we can do and see where we get. You know you have a winch and a lift and big mud tires you know we could get through pretty much anything as long as it didn't get into his engine bay if we were driving through water. You know we packed up his jeep we headed south of Nashville Tennessee to a city called Columbia where we started and we drove through about half of the state until we crossed into Mississippi and in Mississippi we drove through the top half of the state through pretty much all unpaved roads then after Mississippi we crossed into Arkansas and drove through pretty much across the whole state of Arkansas until we hit the Oklahoma and Arkansas border. When we drove back to Tennessee from the border we took all interstates and highways which took about eight to nine hours driving from Tennessee all the way to Arkansas and Oklahoma border off-road on the trails we were driving eight to ten hours a day, closer to ten hours a day most days for six days so that should put it in perspective but you know we were only averaging probably about under 20 miles an hour for the whole trip driving on trails and and unpaved roads which obviously was very grueling we're just trying to find random places to camp in the woods on trails that we were driving on so we pull off and find a somewhat clear area and set up our tent and call it a night so it was always such a good experience to be able to you know pull off somewhere where there was absolutely no one going to pass you and I just cooked it up a nice dinner under a camp so always remember that there's a point in Arkansas where they had so much flooding the first time that we came across a significant flood area we thought we might be able to get through it there's just this big tree in the way so we decided to well I decided to get in the water and try and move this tree you know strap a tree strap around it hook it to the Jeep so we could tow it out of the way to try and get get across the river and luckily we got the tree out of the way but the the water ended up being way too deep way too deep for us across so you know navigating around that was was another challenge that we faced with with a lot of the trail because they at the time the South did have so much rain going on and a lot of flooding so you know going up going off or out and navigating yourselves was definitely a challenge but very fun so we added a little bit of time to our journey but it was all worth it and we're going through all these different little towns and things like that we came across a few people we were trying to find a camp site why and we're going through the Ozarks in Arkansas we came across a part in the trail that was extremely deep mud you know ruts in the mud that were two plus feet deep we see this BMW 5-series sedan stuck and it's these two younger girls just they have no idea what what they're doing obviously because they try to get through this mud with the BMW sedan so we we stop and ask if they need help luckily they had someone coming on the way but I will never forget coming across them because to us it was just so obvious that there's no way any sedan could ever get through mud like that and it was just just such a funny memory