Travel Writing

Ever wondered what it would it be like to just jump in the car and hit the highway, roaming from one small town to the next, living from one unexpected adventure to another? This is what travel writer and photographer Deborah Garner decided to do in the fall of 1999. Years later, she’s still on the road. Follow along as she continues to document America’s backroads and small towns.

May 16, 2004 If I were to be asked where, during many years of cross-country travel, I’d had the very best meal of my entire

May 12, 2004 When I arrived in Philipsburg, MT – “P’Burg” by local idiom – it was by complete happenstance. I was headed south from

  May 9, 2004 It took all of five minutes being in Montana for the first time and I was in love. I had driven

May 8, 2004 At the end of a quiet road, just a few miles outside the town of Leavenworth, WA, I turned into a small

May 6, 2004 I woke up to the glimmer of water reflecting against my windows. Dramatic lighting filtered through the clouds and across Penn Cove,

May 4, 2004 I left Portland in the late afternoon, loaded down with books from Powell’s and a little weary from the last week of