Trek Kelly is a man with a van and a plan

After spending a year traveling around the world, followed by a year living in isolation in the desert, Trek Thunder Kelly emerged with a new mission – to find and document The Good In America.

Trek’s journey officially kicked off Jan. 2, 2012 in Venice, California, with the goal of traveling through all 50 states in 50 weeks in his 1969 van, Chief Joseph. Visiting rodeos, baseball games, road-side attractions, national parks, and meeting interesting people along the way, Trek is on this journey to unearth treasures from every state that he catalogues in coffee table book-worthy photos and a blog he calls The Sunday Evening Post.

For Trek, this was the year to do it.

“2012 — an election year, an Olympic year, a year to hit the road, roll down the window and inhale the promise. I want to remind people, in my small way, what’s best in them, because in aggregate, they compose the character of a nation that has long inspired the world.”

The Good in America is Trek on a trek, a genuine celebration of America.

So far Trek has passed through about 36 states, only slowed by his (not always trusty) steed Chief Joseph. He has visited more than 30 museums and 55 national parks, started over a dozen Help Mobs - Flash Mobs aimed at doing good in local communities - and spent nights in 62 Walmart parking lots.

To complete his mission, Trek relies on the help of strangers he meets and hopes to remind people how much kindness exists in our country. He and the Chief are more than halfway done but they are running low on fuel. So if wanderlust is in your blood but you can’t quite make an escape, consider following Trek’s trek and supporting him with a donation to help us all see his vision of America - a country united by good people and deeds.