For more than a decade, we wandered the length and breadth of America in a camper van
Four hours was our limit, and we made it a rule not to drive every day
We wanted to see, really see
Our photos and videos from our moving vehicle tell different stories from the photos taken while we were still

Sometimes we had a destination in mind
Sometimes we drove until we were ready to stop
A road new to us was always our first choice
A ribboned strip of asphalt, a secondary road or a dirt road
A road that meandered through countryside, small towns, tiny dots on a map, villages with names like Enigma
Not always beautiful
Not always good weather, more often not
We witnessed stark real-world poverty
We passed vast fields of growing cotton, which reminded us of America’s dark past 
Through towns well past their glory days, many with vintage neon signs, shuttered motels and restaurants, reminders of those hopeful decades 
And now Dollar Generals in every one
Famous highways and byways we’d never previously heard of
We passed Billboards that spoke of the culture of the place
Hip general stores in the middle of nowhere
We occasionally discovered restaurants that felt like stepping back in time
American roads, not just Route 66 (the Mother Road), were made for road tripping
Many are now just a reminder of those early glory days of the motor car
Still, this is the best way we know to see and experience the real United States