In the spirit of windowseat photography, I bring you the much more dangerous, driver’s seat photography.
I left Carrboro, NC and started driving towards Santa Rosa, California during nine days in May 2005. Though I had several intermediate destinations in mind (Grand Canyon, Zion), the journey itself was really the destination. As such I treated it like any tourist/explorer would. I took lots of pictures (through my windshield).
driving through the tennessee countryside towards i-40 and memphisa view of i-40 from the texas panhandlelandscape changes as i leave texas and enter new mexicoentertaining myself at 75mpha neat looking mountain outside tucumcari, new mexicoleaving santa fe to the north, the overpasses were spectacularly decoratedanother painted overpass north of santa fe (possibly on a reservation)the beautiful and lush new mexico countrysidefirst glimpse of the red rocks of new mexicothe drive between santa fe and chama, new mexico may have been my favorite part of the tripmore stunning red rocksnotice how green everything is, i wonder how it normally lookshilly highway vista in northern new mexicosnow-capped mountains north of chama new mexico, probably in coloradolong flat stretch, probably in arizona, with bug guts on windshieldlooking back at some craggy red rocksgetting closer to the grand canyonentering nevadagreen nevada desertflat nevada desertbeautiful nevada mountainsdust from a dirt road blowing across the highwaya lovely side view mirror shotthe approaching storm front, my first weather experienceafter the storm, long stretches of road
Tammy, good luck. I hope you have as good weather as I did. Also be prepared. I traveled in May, and the temperature was pretty nice. But it gets really hot out west in the summer months.
I see the spirit of adventure is alive and well. Good for you man! Domestic life has slowed me down…way down. But I’ll get back at it full swing someday; and I’ll take my family along. I Googled images of the Southwest looking for specific things to carve onto a neat project. A friend showed me how to hand craft a traditional Indian peace pipe. It has turned out to be quite fun. I found your site by accident. Hope you never slow down! Peace! Those white lines are calling again. Go have another adventure…and, at some nonspecific mile marker along the way…think of an old fart who’s wishing for that same stretch of road.
-E.
Eric, I’ve learned that you definitely don’t have to travel across country to reacquaint yourself with the road. I’ve managed to squeeze hundreds of miles of blacktop into an odd three day weekend, and still get out of the car to do some hiking, exploring.
Wow, amazing perspective. Love this rear view mirror reflection photo :)
thanks. i especially like the way it frames the picture.
Thanks! I’m planning on driving this route this summer and your shots are great!
Tammy, good luck. I hope you have as good weather as I did. Also be prepared. I traveled in May, and the temperature was pretty nice. But it gets really hot out west in the summer months.
I see the spirit of adventure is alive and well. Good for you man! Domestic life has slowed me down…way down. But I’ll get back at it full swing someday; and I’ll take my family along. I Googled images of the Southwest looking for specific things to carve onto a neat project. A friend showed me how to hand craft a traditional Indian peace pipe. It has turned out to be quite fun. I found your site by accident. Hope you never slow down! Peace! Those white lines are calling again. Go have another adventure…and, at some nonspecific mile marker along the way…think of an old fart who’s wishing for that same stretch of road.
-E.
Eric, I’ve learned that you definitely don’t have to travel across country to reacquaint yourself with the road. I’ve managed to squeeze hundreds of miles of blacktop into an odd three day weekend, and still get out of the car to do some hiking, exploring.