Crew 01Where they'll be looking
The Pathfinders
Find the road.
First out, last in. They read the map, test the route and decide where the expedition can actually go.
Find Your Mentor PresentsExpedition 2027 · In Planning
A 90-Day Expedition Across AmericaFind
Find
America
10 crews. 90 days. Across America to find the people who have something worth teaching us.
America isn't a story someone can tell you.You have to go find it.
We're going to listen, learn and share what America knows.
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Live figures begin when the expedition does.
The manifesto
What's actually here?
We have never had more access to information. But much of what matters still lives inside people.
Find America is non-political and non-religious. We are not here to tell America what it is. We're here to listen, ask questions, and let people tell their own stories.
Everybody has something to teach.Everybody has something to learn.
The route
The road ahead
A proposed route. America decides what happens between the lines.
Proposed route · illustrative positions · not live GPSPinch to zoom · drag to follow the road
The road
- 12
- Proposed Waypoints
- 10
- Crews
- 90
- Days
- ∞
- Route evolves as America responds
Legend
- W — Waypoint. Significant places along the proposed route.
- C — Crew. The caravans carrying Find America.
- ?C? — Wildcard. Expect the unexpected.
- ● — Finders & Mentors. Members of the Find Your Mentor community already here.
- — Proposed route. The road ahead. Subject to discovery.
The stops
- W01WarrensburgNew York · The Adirondacks
- W02SunrayVermont
- W03New YorkNortheast
- W04The AppalachiansMid-Atlantic
- W05Florida & the SouthSoutheast
- W06MiamiFlorida · Atlantic Coast
- W07The GulfDeep South
- W08TexasSouth Central
- W09The SouthwestDesert
- W10San DiegoPacific
- W11The California CoastPacific
- W12San FranciscoPacific
Crew positions are illustrative. No live GPS is being shown. Direction, stops and waypoints are still being evaluated, and no dates have been set. When Find America hits the road, this same map becomes live.
Find your place in Find America
You don't have to be in an RV to be part of the expedition.
Put your place on the map
Think we're missing something?
Tell us where Find America should go next. Every suggestion is read by a person, and nothing appears on this map because it was submitted.
Where we are
The expedition is forming
An honest picture of the build. We publish states, not scoreboards — real numbers appear only when there is real information behind them.
10 crews
Crews
Forming
12 waypoints
Route waypoints
Proposed
90 days
On the road
Planned
Route
Coast to coast
In development
- UnderwayCrew identities definedNine named crews and one Wildcard seat that never stays filled.
- UnderwayRoute in developmentA proposed line across the country, drawn on real roads.
- OpenApplications openPeople are writing in about who they are and what they bring.
- OpenNodes and hostsPlaces inviting the expedition to stop, gather and listen.
- NextVehicles, partners and fundingThe practical spine of the road. Building now, reported when real.
01
Build the expedition
- Crews.
- Vehicles.
- Partners.
- Nodes.
- Funding.
- Route development.
02
Hit the road
- 90 days.
- Up to 10 crews.
- America in motion.
- Stories unfolding.
03
Bring home what we found
- People.
- Knowledge.
- Mentors.
- Field Notes.
- Stories.
- Relationships.
- A living record of what America taught us.
The crewsTen crews.
Ten crews.
Ten ways of finding America.
Which one feels like you?
Nine crews you can claim, and one that never stays the same. These are working identities, not personality tests — pick the one you already can't stop looking at.
Which crew are you riding with?
C1
The Pathfinders
Find the road.
C2The Storytellers
Find the story.
C3The Connectors
Find the people.
C4The Fixers
Find a way.
C5The Guardians
Keep the people safe.
C6The Visionaries
Find what could be.
C7The Seekers
Find what we don't yet understand.
C8The Makers
Build what the road needs.
C9The Stewards
Keep the expedition in flow.
C?The Wildcard
You never know who's riding next.
Crew 02Where they'll be looking
The Storytellers
Find the story.
Cameras, questions and patience. They stay long enough for people to say the thing they meant to say.
Crew 03Where they'll be looking
The Connectors
Find the people.
They arrive early, knock on doors and know who in town everyone else says you have to meet.
Crew 04Where they'll be looking
The Fixers
Find a way.
Engines, generators, permits, weather. When the expedition stops moving, they are the reason it starts again.
Crew 05Where they'll be looking
The Guardians
Keep the people safe.
Health, safety and the long middle of a 90-day journey. They look after the people who look after everything else.
Crew 06Where they'll be looking
The Visionaries
Find what could be.
Builders, technologists and young makers tracing what America is quietly inventing.
Crew 07Where they'll be looking
The Seekers
Find what we don't yet understand.
The crew with the fewest assumptions. They follow the questions nobody has answered yet.
Crew 08Where they'll be looking
The Makers
Build what the road needs.
Builders, craftspeople, cooks and growers. They make things with their hands and teach as they go.
Crew 09Where they'll be looking
The Stewards
Keep the expedition in flow.
Provisions, schedules, logistics. Nothing they do is visible until it stops happening.
Crew 10 · The rotating seatNo guest is confirmed. Nominations are read, not counted.
The Wildcard
Who's in the hot seat?
This crew never stays the same for long.
The Wildcard RV is Find America's rotating seat for unexpected guests, Mentors, creators, experts, friends and people we meet along the road.
You may know who's inside tomorrow. Or you may not.
Crew in formation
This crew is still being found
Maybe you belong here.
The people who ride for all 90 days are still being selected. No names, no portraits, no promises — the seats are genuinely open.
Two different empty seats
An unrevealed crew is a seat we're holding open on purpose — waiting for the right person to be named.The Wildcard is a seat we never intend to fill for long.
Crew members ride the long road. Wildcards arrive, ride a stretch, and hand the seat to whoever comes next.
Ten crews. Ninety days. One country.
Six ways in
You don't have to be in the RV
Most of Find America happens off the road, in the places we're heading toward.
- 01
Ride
Travel with a crew.
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Drop in
Join a crew or a Node for part of the journey.
- 03
Host
Invite Find America to your place or community.
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Help
Support a crew from wherever you are.
Support the expedition — opens at launch
- 05
Find
Recommend people, places and stories.
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Follow
Ride virtually through livestreams and crew updates.
Travel with us from wherever you are
Follow the expedition
Crew announcements, field notes, new Nodes and the moments that matter — sent only when there is something real to say.
Invite Find America
Have something America should see?
Invite the expedition to you.
Farms, food forests, ranches, communities, schools, businesses, retreat centers, cultural projects and private land can all invite the crews.
- Host us.
- Show us what you've built.
- Introduce us to your community.
- Teach us something.
- Give us somewhere to gather.
- Help us meet the people we would never find on our own.
Recommend someone
Who does America need to meet?
A teacher. A farmer. A grandmother. A mechanic. An inventor. A veteran. An artist. A scientist. A builder. A teenager.Someone carrying knowledge the rest of us should hear.
You already know them. The person your town would send if it could only send one. Tell us who, and where — we'll try to be there.
What should we find?
Send us somewhere.
“You have to meet my grandfather.”
“There's a woman in our town everybody should know.”
“Come see what this community built.”
“Nobody talks about this place.”
What America is telling us
America's Inbox
America is already telling us where to look.
Every invitation, story and recommendation begins with someone saying: “You need to see this.”
Opening the inbox…
BroadcastNot streaming yet
Live from America
Channel 01
The Pathfinders
Channel opens when they hit the road
Channel 02
The Storytellers
Channel opens when they hit the road
Channel 03
The Connectors
Channel opens when they hit the road
Live streaming begins when Find America hits the road.
No departure date has been set. When it is, this section will carry the participating crews' streams in one place.
The recurring gathering
The Find America Campfire
Every few days the crews reunite, and everything they've collected gets put on the fire. One question runs the whole expedition.
What did you find?
Discoveries · Interviews · Surprises · Disagreements · Lessons · Audience questions · Where we go next
First Campfire airs when the expedition departs
The bridge
America, what can you teach?
I can teach
I want to learn
Every Mentor on Find Your Mentor started with one honest sentence. Every Finder started with curiosity, not a plan.
Meet us on the road
Meet Find America
Every few travel days the crews regroup at a Find America Node — an open evening in a town along the route. Fires, food, local Mentors, stories, rest.
Next Node
To be announced.
Cities, dates, hosts, capacity and RSVPs arrive with the route. Nothing is scheduled yet.
The expedition fund
Where the money goes
We want the people helping us Find America to understand how their support gets us there.
$850K
The crews
Up to 10 crews, 90 days, at a maximum planning envelope of $85,000 each.
$100K
FYM Expedition HQ
The central operation that keeps the expedition connected, coordinated and documented.
$50K
Central contingency
An expedition-wide reserve for the things the road decides on its own.
Campaign
Costs & cushion
Payment processing, fundraising-platform costs, campaign administration and additional expedition cushion.
Full Find America goal
Campaign open$1.1M
$1,100,000 — the full expedition fundraising goal.
Contributions are being accepted through Donorbox. Every contribution goes to the expedition as a whole.
The crews
The largest part of the expedition is the expedition itself
10
Crews
90
Days
$85K
Maximum planning envelope per crew
$850K
Total maximum crew allocation
What does $85K fund?Open the ledgerClose
- Premium RV rental / long-term lease$24,000
- Rental insurance, fees & mileage reserve$6,000
- Fuel$6,000
- Campgrounds / overnight stays$6,000
- Food & provisions$10,000
- Connectivity / Starlink / cellular$2,000
- Experiences / admissions / local discovery$2,500
- Parking / tolls / propane / dumping / laundry$2,000
- Crew equipment / field consumables$2,000
- Repairs / roadside / maintenance$3,000
- Crew flexibility / emergency reserve$6,500
- Crew participation honorariumA planning envelope for the whole crew — not a guaranteed payment, and not $15,000 per person.$15,000
- Total maximum planning envelope per crew$85,000
These are planning allocations, not guaranteed expenditures. Actual costs will vary by crew. Sponsorships, owned vehicles, donated equipment, hosted stays and other partnerships may reduce actual costs substantially.
Crew participation honorarium
A 90-day expedition asks participating creators, experts and crew members to contribute an extraordinary amount of time, energy, creativity and personal commitment. Each crew planning budget therefore sets aside up to $15,000 to recognize that contribution.
To be exact: $15,000 is a planning envelope for an entire crew, not $15,000 per person and not a guaranteed payment to anyone. How much is actually available, and how it is shared, depends on what the expedition raises and is agreed with each crew before departure.
The operation behind the road
$100K
FYM Expedition HQ
Ten RVs traveling across America do not automatically become one national expedition. The FYM Expedition HQ is the central operation that keeps Find America connected, coordinated, documented and visible.
HQ planning allocationsOpenClose
- Expedition management & crew coordination$20,000
- Master documentary / video / photography$25,000
- Marketing, PR & audience acquisition$20,000
- Editing / social production / creative assets$10,000
- Technology / mapping / streaming / digital infrastructure$8,000
- HQ travel / Node support / operational logistics$7,000
- Legal / accounting / administration / compliance$5,000
- HQ operating contingency$5,000
- Total$100,000
Planning allocations. Not guaranteed final expenditures.
The road will surprise us
$50K
Central contingency & emergency reserve
We are deliberately maintaining an expedition-wide reserve so that one unexpected event does not jeopardize the journey or force resources away from another crew. This is separate from the smaller flexibility reserve inside each crew budget.
- Major vehicle incidents
- Emergency travel
- Severe weather
- Route changes
- Equipment failure
- Replacement crew logistics
- Unexpected insurance or safety requirements
- Urgent production needs
- Opportunities that require operational flexibility
We are calculating conservatively
Find America is an expedition into the unknown — but our financial planning should not be. Our projections are intentionally conservative.
A 90-day journey involving up to 10 crews, RVs, thousands of miles of travel, field production, technology, safety, community gatherings and a national support operation contains variables that cannot be predicted perfectly months in advance.
Fuel prices change. Vehicles break. Insurance requirements evolve. Campground and lodging costs vary. Production equipment fails. Connectivity on the road costs money. And sometimes the most important story may require us to stop, change direction or stay somewhere longer than planned.
Rather than build Find America around best-case assumptions, we are budgeting for the realities of the road. We would rather prepare responsibly and spend carefully than underestimate what it takes to do this well.
The budget is a ceiling — not a target to spend
We are actively pursuing partners who may help provide RVs, fuel, connectivity, equipment, food, accommodations and other expedition resources. Every meaningful in-kind partnership can reduce the amount Find America needs to spend directly. A budget is permission to operate responsibly — not an obligation to spend every dollar.
If actual expedition costs are reduced through sponsorships, partnerships or donated resources, those savings strengthen the overall expedition and its ability to respond to what the road brings.
What each milestone makes possible
$850K
Puts up to 10 properly funded crews on the road
$950K
Adds the FYM Expedition HQ, media, technology & national coordination
$1M
Builds central contingency & expedition resilience
$1.1M
Full Find America goal
Ten crews. Ninety days. Properly equipped. Professionally documented. Supported from the road. Prepared for the unexpected.
These are explanatory funding milestones — not legal funding thresholds, and not a promise that the expedition launches at a specific amount.
This is not the cost of a vacation
Find America is not ten vacations. It is a distributed 90-day expedition and media operation.
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The road
RVs, insurance, fuel, food, campsites, maintenance, supplies and logistics.
- 02
The field
Filming, photography, interviews, equipment, connectivity and documentation.
- 03
The people
The participating crew members, creators and experts giving approximately three months of their time to the expedition.
- 04
The network
Technology, the live map experience, community participation, streaming and digital storytelling.
- 05
The HQ
Coordination, safety, communications, administration, production and crew support.
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The story
Editing, documentary production, distribution, PR and bringing what we discover back to the public.
Support levels
Amounts only. No titles, no tiers, nothing to receive in return.
$9
$27
$54
$108
$250
$500
$1000
Support levels are ways to back the expedition — never a place on it, and never a benefit, perk or recognition. Selection for a crew happens only through the application process. Support goes to Find America as a whole; contributions are not tax-deductible and are not a charitable donation.
Help put Find America on the road
One country. Up to 10 crews. 90 days. Thousands of miles. And no predetermined conclusion.
A portion of funds raised will cover payment processing, fundraising-platform costs and the administration associated with running a campaign of this scale.
Find America is currently in development. These figures are planning estimates and may change as crews, vehicles, insurance, production requirements, route logistics, sponsorships and partnerships are finalized. Actual deployment of funds will depend on the amount raised and the operational requirements of the expedition.
Our intention is to report back on how expedition funds are deployed as Find America develops and travels.
Want to support FYM beyond the expedition?Explore Founding Membership
After the road
What we find comes home with us.
The road lasts 90 days.What America teaches us should travel much further.
We are not promising a finished product. These are the possible outputs of a journey that hasn't happened yet.
- People and Mentor connections
- Field Notes
- Stories
- Community relationships
- Future Nodes
- Documentary material
- Knowledge worth preserving
- Future Find America expeditions
Go further with us
Two ways to help move this forward
You can help put Find America on the road — or help build the platform that continues long after the expedition ends.
The expedition
Power Find America
Help put the crews on the road, document what we discover, support the infrastructure behind the journey, and bring Find America to people everywhere.
90 days. Up to 10 crews. One country. No predetermined conclusion.
The platform
Become a Founding Member
Find America is a 90-day expedition. Find Your Mentor is the platform and community behind the larger mission. Become a Founding Member and help us build the place where people, knowledge, Mentors and communities continue finding one another long after the expedition ends.
Find America campaign contributions and Find Your Mentor Founding Memberships are separate financial pathways. Founding Membership purchases support the FYM platform and are not counted as contributions toward the Find America expedition fundraising goal.
Want to do both?
Some people may choose to help put Find America on the road and become Founding Members of the platform behind it. They are two different ways of helping build the same larger vision.
The Find America Passport
Everything you do leaves a stamp
A quiet field record of how you travelled with the expedition — kept for you, never displayed as a scoreboard.
Find America · Field passport · No. —Issued at departure
Unstamped
Joined Find America
Unstamped
Following a Crew
Unstamped
Recommended Someone
Unstamped
Submitted a Story
Unstamped
Watched a Campfire
Unstamped
Attended a Node
Unstamped
Invited Friends
Unstamped
Helped Build the Expedition
Unstamped
Became a Finder
Unstamped
Became a Mentor
Partners
Partner with Find America
A small number of partners will make this possible. No partners are confirmed and no brands are attached.
Official Mobility Partner
OpenConnectivity Partner
OpenProduction Partner
OpenSafety Partner
OpenOutdoor Partner
OpenHospitality Partner
OpenFood Partner
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