Hello, hello friends and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast.

As always, my name is Patrick and I am your host.

I'm excited to bring you today's episode with Maxwell Johnston.

He created a new route in Texas called the Hill Country Route because it's in the hill country and it's a route and you can ride

your bike on it and that's what we did almost as immediately whenever i saw it put on bikepacking

dot com i'm very familiar with the area and uh also maxwell is a very good photographer in my opinion

i really like his style of photography,

and so his pictures really jumped off the page. And partially I wanted to have him show me around the route, give me a personal tour,

and talk to me about why he created the route and how and all the things.

And I also wanted to kind of pick his brain about photography.

I do appreciate him taking the time to give me a guided tour.

It was really great and I did get some good photography tips.

And the route itself is truly incredible.

The roads are beautiful and the camping was great and the food was great.

And we are going to talk about it all on this podcast.

So I'm not going to get too into the weeds right there with that.

But I would like to go on to say that we try something new on this episode.

And sometimes when you try something new,

you learn a lot.

And this was definitely a learning opportunity for me.

The idea here was that we would each be miced up

while we rode our bikes and do a portion of the interview

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