During the first week of filming, Daniel suffered a leg injury while riding through San Francisco, which resulted in him getting a knee surgery. He spent the next year rehabbing his knee, and then was dropped off at the Golden Gate Bridge exactly one year after his surgery, to continue his journey across the country. In the first cut of the film, Daniel documented his injury and the year of rehab, but then decided to take it out of the movie because he "felt like it was a distraction from the main message of the film."
Daniel Troia has stated that a friend gave him a book called, "The Kindness of Strangers", which was part of the inspiration behind his documentary. The book, which was written in the 1990's, was about a man who hitch-hiked across America with no food or money. After reading the book, Troia felt inspired to do something similar, but instead of hitch-hiking, he decided to ride his bike. After completion of the film, Daniel met a Swedish man who was biking across the country, and offered the man a place to sleep for the night. When the Swedish man left the next morning, Daniel gave the book to him and said, "Pass it on to someone else when the time is right".
In the first version of the film, there was a scene that showed Daniel being welcomed into the home of a woman named Elizabeth in Patterson, New Jersey. Daniel and Elizabeth shared a meal together, and she told him stories about growing up extremely poor in Columbia. Later that night, Elizabeth's daughter and her boyfriend came home, and the boyfriend did not want Daniel staying in the house, even though Elizabeth insisted that he stay. The boyfriend eventually kicked Daniel out of the house, which forced him to bike through gang neighborhoods at midnight, and eventually led to the infamous warehouse scene in the movie. Daniel decided to take this out of the film because Elizabeth was ashamed of how the boyfriend was acting, and he wanted to protect her privacy.
While biking through East St. Louis, Daniel met a man named Harold, who had just been released from prison. Harold was only 24 years old and living under a bridge. An extremely open and honest man, Harold told Daniel about his struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, from when he was stabbed in prison. At one point in the conversation, Harold started sobbing on Daniel's shoulder and said, " I don't know how much longer I will be around for". Daniel has stated that this was one of the most meaningful interactions in his life because it made him think about how some people are just born into really difficult situations, and not everybody has the same opportunities in life.
When Daniel finished editing the documentary, he couldn't figure out what he wanted to name the film. Struggling to find a title, he started going through old footage from his bike trip to try and get some inspiration about a name for the movie. In the very last piece of footage that was filmed for his documentary, Daniel was trying to sum up his thoughts about his bike trip and said, " I just feel like we are all in this together". After watching that video clip, he instantly knew that he found the title he was looking for.