A journey that begins in the pursuit of the romance of the road and the cachet of classic destinations quickly becomes a voyage of discovery of the ordinary eccentricity of those who made the road, those who live by it, those who travel over it, and those who made it famous.
A journey that begins as a kind of quest becomes a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of the particularity of places and people, of landscapes and churches, of museums and ruins, of the kept, the preserved, the restored, and the simply falling down.
On two transcontinental road trips, a year apart, we discovered that the road is not the way to your destination. It is the destination itself. It is not the great monuments or the great attractions that matter, but the ever-unfolding view, a thousand tiny attractions, a miscellany that slowly reveals its unity. And we discover that human society is not the product of some grand design but the ever-unfolding product of ordinary eccentricity.

Route 66 · Lincoln Museum Gateway Arch · Ozarks Rainbow Bridge · Cadillac Ranch · Barbed Wire Land of Enchantment
Ancient Ruins · Holy Dirt · Santa Fe · Taos · Grand Canyon Seligman · Bagdad Cafe · Pacific Coast Highway · Yellowstone · Badlands · Loneliest Road · Lincoln Highway