Help Wanted: Carrizo Plain

Only a couple of hours outside of Los Angeles, California, lies the Carrizo Plain, a vast grassland home to diverse communities of wildlife and plant species where signals are lost and natural beauty is found.

We packed up Thursday night and drove north to a nondescript motel in the heart of Taft, California—our home for a two-day riding trip exploring the remote and remarkable features of this epic monument hidden from plain sight. We didn’t have a goal. That wasn’t the point. We just wanted to go off-grid and connect with nature, with one another, and with a new place just beyond our backyard.