Nevada has the honor of being the only state whose photo I took during the course of the project itself; I had a photo of one of the indoor canals at the Venetian from our trip last year, but on our weekend in Las Vegas last month, my trip to the Neon Museum’s boneyard was […]

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By the time of our 1997 road trip, I had spent many an hour in the Salt Lake City airport, the required layover point for Delta Airlines flights out of Anchorage to the East Coast, but I’d never been outside the doors of the airport. When we arrived in Kanab, Utah after visiting the Grand […]

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New Mexico is one of those states I haven’t spent nearly as much time in as I would like to have, and is a place I plan on visiting more in the future. My first visit to New Mexico came as we headed to Four Corners during the western leg of our 1997 road trip. […]

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Ah, Kansas, halfway across the country, home of the geodetic center of the Lower 48 (which we never did find), and, more importantly for George and me in 1997, home to the World’s Largest Ball of Twine, or at least a ball that lays claim to that title. After leaving Missouri, we got off the […]

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On Spaulding, just off Melrose, across from the car wash. Lovely.

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Missouri, the gateway to the west, is half-way through my list of visited states, and it’s already June first, leaving only 27 days until we head to Hawaii, so I’d better get going. I gained an unexpected connection with Missouri when I started collaborating with a photobooth enthusiast living in St Louis on Photobooth.net, the […]

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Walking L.A. led us to another gem of a neighborhood today, this time in the hills near the Hollywood Bowl, overlooking Hollywood Boulevard. Whitley Heights, once home to Hollywood royalty like Valentino, Chaplin, and Garland, was severed in half by the construction of the 101 Freeway in the mid-’40s, and was recently granted protection as […]

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I haven’t been living here long, and didn’t go there that many times, but I went as often as I could, as long as I’ve lived here, and I’m sad to see it go. Here’s to the Largo at the Coronet, we’ll see how it goes.

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