Avoid the Interstate

I was meaning to put out a new issue every weekend and got behind before issue 2 even came out. Thankfully I just got back from a big trip with more photos than I know what to do with. So here you go. Hope you enjoy this issue showing a cross-country road trip from Brooklyn to Reno with plenty of new pieces along the way.

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King 'O' Wings in East St. Louis.

 

West Coast Tour

Just back from good times combing the coast, motoring through redwoods and fog, trainyards and old barns. Had great companions and amazing hosts. Here's a few pics from our last days in Seattle. More to come soon

2009 is Fresh to Death

Another long stretch with no overunder love. Back from a 3800+ mile road trip from Reno to Brooklyn with pit-stops throughout the south. Taetae taught me how to read a map as we veered to the Juarez border and I showed her how to live off of gas station coffee. Visits with her sister Crow in Santa Fe, Donald Judd's Chinati Museum in the beautiful Marfa, Texas, ghost hunting in Gurdon, Arkansas with Emmy and buZ blurr, followed with a tour of Hatch Show Prints by Nieves in Nashville, Tennessee. After that it just became a blur of inescapable towns.

Now I'm back in NYC and the mood is as cold as the weather. The color of choice is black with black over black and a scarf, probably black. Everything is not on sale anymore nor are the treats homemade from a family recipe. Everything just kinda is. And that's fine. But word to the wise is don't drive through the south if you plan on coming out east. That southern hospitality will just melt your heart and the city freezes it over.

More photos from the trip here

En route to Vegas

Drove out hwy 50 with my pops to Austin and then down the Big Smokey Valley to Carvers. Passed trucks with tires the size of houses. Cut west to Tonopah where there was nothing French about the F. Dip I had at the Banc. Caught the tailings of moon light on derelict school houses in Goldfield before blasting into Vegas for a 93 degree midnight. What a trip.

NY Times Roadtrip story

Matt Gross, the frugal traveller for the NY Times