Jeffrey Thompson
Essays: Border to Border

Joe Lisner, right, and other Pork Belly Ventures team members wash themselves at a homemade bathing station in the Oskaloosa, Iowa campground. The "watering hole" is just one of several luxuries the charter team enjoys on the route. Team Pork Belly has more than 200 riders from four countries and nearly 20 states.
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