Austin → Squamish · Summer 2026
THE ROAD TRIP
MEGA‑LOOP
An AI travel companion riding shotgun — tracking deadlines, surfacing weird-and-wonderful detours that fit the time you have, and getting you to every rendezvous on schedule.
🗺️ The Route
Eleven stops, one hard deadline
Ricardo's wedding (Aug 1) is the fixed wall everything bends around. Everything in green has slack — that's where the detours live.
🌎 Your trip, your way
We're a climbing trip — but you can be whatever you want
Same engine, any adventure. Look at Derek: his is just a road trip. Whether you're chasing World Cup matches in Seattle, crawling breweries, or sending alpine objectives, your dossier shapes itself to what you're doing — a climber gets Gear & Skills, a road-tripper gets a Packing List.
🚪 Start your own trip🛰️ Live
Where's David right now?
inReach satellite breadcrumbs polled from MapShare — the dot stays live off-grid even with the Starlink dish stowed. Tap 🚐🚐 See the brothers to overlay Derek's route and the 🤝 rendezvous where they meet.
Live map loads here — David's route + current position from the inReach feed.
Set MAPSHARE_FEED_URL for the live dot.
🤘 The Squad
Who's riding which leg
📡 Your Companion
Meet Shotgun
The AI riding shotgun: it watches the Aug 1 deadline, scouts weird-and-wonderful detours that fit the slack you have, and pings you on whatever can reach you — iMessage or email. Here's what a transmission sounds like:
You've got until Aug 1 to make Ricardo's wedding. On the way to Whitley, swing through Deep Ellum for beers, hit the rez in OK, then take Chels & Jillian on a hike.
Lake + hot spring ahead if you want to rinse off, shave, and reset. You've been sitting 3 hrs — rest area in 8 mi has a field for a quick mobility flow.
Derek's solar camper is 40 min from Flathead — meet him there. 🤝
💬 …or just talk to it
Ask Shotgun anything — a climb, the route, swapping an objective, or whether we'll make the wedding.
✨ Now try it — no signup
Tap a spot (or use your location) and watch the live engine scout real detours near you.
🤝 The Four Layers
Shotgun's got your back
Not just a map — a companion watching four things at once so weeks in the car keep you healthy, clean, and stoked.
Climb & Adventure
Trad, sport, scrambles, SUP & e-MTB — the whole quiver.
Life Maintenance
Sleep, showers, laundry, haircuts, gear repair.
Move & Mobility
Anti-car-rot coach: yoga, calisthenics, runs, tracks, gyms.
Weird & Wonderful
Meow Wolf, Atlas Obscura, roadside Americana.
🎉 Cheer Squad
Roll with us
Fuel the trip, get the dispatch, send me a detour, or pick the soundtrack. The road's better with a crew.
🍦 Fuel the trip
Chip in for gas, a coffee, or an ice cream down the road. Every little bit keeps the rig rolling.
📬 Get the dispatch
Shotgun emails you the highlights — where I am, what I climbed, the weird detours.
💡 Send me a detour
Know a hot spring, a taco truck, a roadside oddity on my route? Drop it — I'll get the good ones.
🎧 Co-pilot picks
Music & audiobooks for the long hauls — suggested by the crew. See the full mixtape →
- 📖 The Push — Tommy Caldwell (audiobook) — Jillian
- 🎵 Lo-fi for long hauls — Derek
- 🎵 Desert Highways — indie folk — Chels