To shake the sleeping self

On the cusp of turning thirty, Jedidiah Jenkins left his job to embark on a 10,000-mile bicycle journey from Oregon to Patagonia. This memoir chronicles his physical adventure and the profound internal journey it sparked, as he grapples with what it means to be an adult and reconciles his sexual identity with his conservative upbringing. Jenkins shares the people and places he encountered, alongside his reflections on travel as a means to awaken to life back home.