Route 66

I wanted to personally thank my close friends for keeping me in their thoughts as they connect me to wonderful opportunities from across the globe. Thank you CC and PL for making this happen for me.


CC was having lunch with one of the higher-ups at a magazine holding company. The higher-up confided to CC that one of her magazines was doing a story on Route 66 and the photographer selected to travel with the journalist(s) on the story had his U.S. visa denied. CC chimes in, I know a photog you can use and he’s based on out Los Angeles (which coincidentally is the ending point to Route 66 – implications of which means only a one-way ticket is required for me to participate.)


So, I was invited to be the photog for the car magazine AutoCar China and help document the findings of Route 66 from Illinois to California. Cadillac was the car sponsor for this story and they provided a top of the line SRX four wheel drive for our driving pleasure.


This trip is a bucket list dream come true. I've always thought that not having done a cross country trip has hindered some part of my creative learning process. I live in a wonderful country and my exposures have been so limited, so so limited. 


I'm also excited at the thought of being published in a real live, true to form, with nice paper magazine. Again, although not necessarily a bucket list item, being magazine published was a goal of mine before I check out of this world. Score!


Thanks again CC and PL for being such loving and wonderful friends.


I’ll have a day by day photo essay recounting my journeys from the trip.

Mood: Functional
Music: Seven Days/Chris Botti Feat. Sting; Dominic Miller
Location: Panera Bread - Pasadena