Hi Johannes,
Thank you so much for this. The work for the past seven weeks has almost all involved a sense of local/locality which at the same time might be anywhere. So much of the drive has been linear, long looping highways around bluffs or river edges. So the roads are there and both insistent and anonymous. We've also been photographing ground cover, fungi, all sorts of things that appear almost invisible or peripheral. I finally found something that might be slime mold on the underside of a few mulch twigs in Omaha; that's the only sign we've seen of that. And the putting the roads up, almost pulling them up, online. We're not going that fast, 6200 miles in 7 weeks, but the stopovers are also intense, working through my archives in Vancouver Washington and Columbus, and through Lee Murray's archival materials in Omaha. So history. We also saw more remnants of the 19th-century Oregon Trail this trip, literally forget where. For the most part avoided winter, but these enormous skies are everywhere through the middle of the country, even here outside Rochester now and the wind's howling... And the politics, too, are howling, but at least for these few weeks we've not run into anything but kindness. That still exists in the U.S. but is getting increasingly buried -
Best, Alan