Much, much earlier in the year I tagged along with Brian Silvestro, Motor1's Deputy Editor, in the backwoods of my home state of Washington. He picked me up from Seattle in a Lexus GX Overtrail and we headed to the WA Backcountry Discovery Route (BDR) that runs along the peaks of the Cascades. It divides the high-desert rural East from the Ring of Fire volcanic, mountainous West of the state. The trip was part of our Japan Month feature series, and it's fantastic.
