About Go Move Shift

Who We Are

We’re Go Move Shift, based in Franklin, North Carolina — Macon County, deep in the Southern Appalachians. Journeys in Motion — we document road trips and scenic drives, building a library of real routes through real places.

We prefer driving to flying. If there’s a backroad option, we take it — highways get you there faster but they don’t show you anything. The routes that matter are the ones most people skip.

Routes are documented so you can see what the drive actually involves before you go.

What We Cover

Our focus areas: Western North Carolina, Ireland, and the American West.

Western North Carolina — This is home. We drive the backroads of Macon, Jackson, Swain, and surrounding counties regularly. The Cullasaja Gorge, the Bootlegger’s Highway, Pine Creek Road, the mountain passes between Franklin and Highlands — these routes we know from repetition, in every season and weather condition. See all Western NC scenic drives.

Ireland — We’ve made multiple extended road trips across Ireland, with particular focus on the Wild Atlantic Way, County Donegal, the Beara Peninsula, and the coastal roads of Cork, Kerry, and Clare. Our Irish driving footage covers thousands of kilometers of narrow rural roads that don’t appear in most travel guides.

The American West — The Rockies, Montana, Colorado, and points in between, including the San Juan Skyway, the Million Dollar Highway, and Wolf Creek Pass. The site’s published routes are a fraction of the roads we’ve covered.

What’s on This Site

Journey pages — Trips are documented to the level the recording workflow supported at the time. Newer trips have day-by-day route maps, GPX, statistics, video, and photos; earlier trips are archived as narrative and photo documents. See the journey archive for what each trip includes.

Scenic Drives — Dedicated route pages for Western North Carolina backroads, with video, road notes, and maps. Additional videos from the region are listed by route family.

Video Library — Every long-form video published to the channel, in one place.

Gear — Our complete equipment list with real-world notes. Cameras, mounts, vehicle setup, and the tools we use to capture and edit footage.

YouTube — Our full video library lives on YouTube. The site provides the context, routes, maps, and practical details that the videos can’t convey on their own.

Why Route Video

Videos range from full-length uncut POV drives to edited highlights — format varies by route and how it was filmed. Either way, the footage is from the driver’s seat and covers the road itself: surface condition, curve tightness, sight lines, pull-offs, and how conditions change with elevation or weather.

For motorcycle riders, RV drivers, or anyone planning a specific route, that ground-level perspective is more useful than most travel content.

Contact

Have a route suggestion, a correction, or a story from a road we’ve covered? Get in touch.

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