We are Logan Sebastian Beck and Walker Phelps Lukens, two friends, artists and itinerant journeymen intent on an adventure of epic proportions. Both of us are from Houston, TX but the budding careers have placed us on opposite sides of the country. Beck, the photographer among us, lives and works in Houston, TX while Walker, the musician, lives and works in New York City.
Like many of our peers, we are well travelled and easily bored young men. While we have always regarded travel as a break from our everyday lives, we both have an affinity for travel that takes us out of our comfort zones—the type of travel where how we get along is the main focus.
As we’ve become more settled in our mid-20s, we long more and more for an epic adventure to foil our day to-day lives. The kind of journey that would combine physical and mental challenges with sheer ‘epic-ness’, natural beauty and the spontaneity of journeys past. After much discussion we decided on a bicycle tour/ roadtrip from New Orleans, Louisiana up the Mississippi River to Mark Twain’s hometown, Hannibal, Missouri. 2010 is 175th anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death so it seemed like a pretty opportune time.
We will be updating this blog every day during our trip. We leave Saturday, June 26, 2010. We will be traveling until July 6th, 2010. 11 days of photographs and recordings.
On August 20th, 2010 Logan has a show at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX. Come see the pictures from the trip!
We would like to thank all those who supported us on kickstarter, the Lawndale Art Center as well our respective employers for giving us the time off to take this ridiculous journey.
Our best,
Logan & Walker
You guys sound like the narrator from the Great Gatsby with a dash for 21st century yuppie.
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