When Dan Long offered to loan his Tao tatala to the ATAYAL Organization, Vice President Gary Smoke cherished the opportunity to have a piece of Tao culture be available for future exchanges with the Tribal Canoe Journeys. In the Summer of 2024, Gary Smoke flew to the USA and took a very long road trip from Houston, TX to Florida to South Carolina, where he bought a trailer, Dan Long built a customized system to hold the boat in place on the trailer, and off they drove over 3,000 miles to Washington State. It was an epic road trip with one of Gary's friends.