In the summer of 2008, before the economic recession, before Obama's election, before the Gulf of Mexico Disaster, Frank Olesin and Patrick Owen Wriot made a pact to travel together across the United States. Coping with the general discontents of the time, they vowed to hitchhike, jump cross country trains, or even walk; anything in order to gain an alternative worldview. It became a commitment to live, to resist the status quo, to beat. This follows their first morning on the road...