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 Interstate 95. South Carolina. October 2010.

Ballantyne Hotel. Charlotte, North Carolina. October 2010.

The highway offers a freedom unlike others - 

windows down, stereo up, rest-stop beef jerky

rebellious cigarettes in the brand new rental car

you fly through the southern wilds, the forests of exotic billboards

discount explosives, alligators in glass tanks, peaches and pies

it's never enough

this hotel is an island and you walk its corridors silently

you order food and stare out the window at a deserted golf course

you wait for someone to call no one does

somehow even the bathroom seems perfectly symmetrical

tomorrow you'll be gone

8

 Malibu, California. September 2010.

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. October 2010.

Two rolling oceans, airplanes to both coasts

lucky, though you'll hardly forget which you love the most

back home the leaves have left the trees and the wood is stacked

you're on the beach in a pair of dress shoes

it's six in the morning

and it's like a movie with no sound

7

 Blanco County, Texas. September 2010.

 Collierville, Tennessee. September 2010.

 Memphis, Tennesse. September 2010.

 Memphis, Tennessee. September 2010.

 Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, California. September 2010.

 Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, California. September 2010.

Los Angeles, California. September 2010.

Malibu, California. September 2010.

Los Angeles, California. September 2010.

And now

You are lost 

6

Reno, Nevada. September 2010.

Reno was like a hungover dream. I walked down empty streets, eerily quiet. People rubbed their eyes
 and glanced around nervously as they made their morning exits from the casinos. The air was clear
 and crisp and the mountains funneled whistling breezes over the abandoned motels and the bored
 valets and a small group of middle-aged war protesters. A homeless woman with a messed up face
 told me someone had thrown a glass ashtray at her and then asked me for a cigarette. I gave her a
 dollar instead and she told me to keep my heart open. I climbed a dirt hill behind my hotel,
 wandering up jeep trails to try and see the sunset. My shoes filled with dirt. As the sun went down all
 was quiet; a couple in a pickup truck parked on the hill below me and sat there getting stoned. In the
 morning I photographed a cosmetic dental clinic for work and went back to the airport, where people
 played slots and stared into their phones. We flew out over the mountains and I took forgettable
 pictures of them through the window of the airplane.

5

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas. September 2010.

4

 Seattle, Washington. August 2010.

 Puget Sound, Washington. August 2010.

 Port Townsend, Washington. August 2010.

Port Townsend, Washington. August 2010.

3

 Orlando, Florida. August 2010.

 Cleveland, Ohio. August 2010.

Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois. August 2010.

It's near the beginning when you disconnect, subconsciously at first

yawning miles across the sky

and of course it's only in the first few hotels you pretend you're someone else

order room service

you aren't even homesick, nor has it crossed your mind, not in these clean sheets

you aren't even confused yet

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New Orleans, Louisiana. August 2010.

the long road ahead

 Savannah, Georgia. August 2010.

In August of 2010 I left New England and moved to Austin, Texas. As soon as I arrived I started traveling for work almost constantly.
This would last nearly two years before I got laid off. I went through three cameras (a perfect Rolleiflex, now broken,
 a Mamiya that became too awkward and heavy to reasonably carry on,
and finally a solid and lovely Pentax K-1000) and filled a shoebox with exposed film,
almost all of it shot while on the road.

New Orleans, Louisiana. August 2010.

The development process is well underway. Today I began the daunting and tedious task of scanning the negatives. 

It will be slow and sporadic, at least until I finish developing the film, but here are a couple of frames from the first 

few rolls of film I shot en route from Chapel Hill to Austin. This is where I'll be posting the images as I scan them.

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