Photographic retrospective · 2012–2014

That Time I Traveled the Country in an RV

A look back at a stretch of life lived on the road: strange places, funny moments, rough patches, and the photographs that stuck.

A period, not a performance

Life moved at road speed.

This is not a route guide or a case for permanent nomadism. It is a retrospective built from the surviving photographs and the experience of traveling, parking, looking for the next place to sleep, and finding unexpected images along the way.

There was plenty that was funny and strange. There were also the ordinary hard parts of living in a small moving home: logistics, weather, isolation, and the need to keep going when the romantic version of the road had worn thin.

Rumple

A companion in the archive.

Rumple was part of this period. His later death belongs to the story, but it is not the whole story; the photographs hold the travel itself, the places, and the life around it.

Rumple standing in snow during the RV years.

On the road

A traffic cone along the route.
April 2012 · preserved travel photograph.
Railroad lights photographed at night.
August 2012 · preserved travel photograph.
A view of a city through a circular foreground detail.
September 2012 · preserved travel photograph.
A railroad landscape in snow.
January 2013 · preserved travel photograph.
A panoramic road and rail landscape.
April 2014 · preserved travel photograph.