Uh, of all the ways to mark 250 years, why this relay?

Well, you know, we're the American Discovery Trail, coast to coast, okay? So we cover the entire, uh, and the breadth of the United States, uh, the continental United States, 15 states, over 350 communities.

And, you know, a, a 50-year celebration doesn't come around, you know, maybe once in everyone's lifetime.

And so, you know, we've been around since the '90s, and we are still as a society trying to get people to understand, uh, the reach of the trail and, you know, how important it is for people to, you know, invest in it.

And many people who have, uh, taken, uh, the hike across the nation, however they've done so, bike, walking, or whatever, uh, they have had their lives changed, uh, seeing the country in a whole different way.

Uh, and we wanna help people understand that.

And of course, we also wanna celebrate the fact that, you know, we gained this great, uh, level of independence, and we thought what better idea than to actually have people walk the Declaration of Independence across our nation, uh, in, uh, celebration of this, uh, of great event.

Where do you go?