I want to Roam

We have been planning a road trip for this summer. The idea is to drive across the U.S.A. possibly follow historic route 66 with the thoughts of Jack Kerouac in our minds. This has been something Emmett has had up his sleeves for years, but every summer for one reason or another we haven't gone. This needs to be the year and the open road is calling. We only have 2-3 weeks to do it in and with so much to see it's been taking quite a bit of planning. The goal is to end up in N.Y. and have enough time to stay and visit with friends. So far we have mapped out only to Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX and I'm exhausted already. I am starting to think that renting a car to drive across then flying back is the ticket.

 Photo Todd Selby

Photo Tim Walker

 "Highway run

Into the midnight sun

Wheels go round and round

you're on my mind"

Journey

"Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven." 

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

 

 Monument Valley that I have needed to go see ever since I saw Forest Gump in that famous scene where Forest stops running.

 "I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was-I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds."

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  "I hear the wind,

Whistling air,

Whispering in my ear."

B52's, Roam

 "The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."

Jack Kerouac

We plan on leaving in August and will most defiantly be taking our camera's to share all the adventures with you.

  "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"

Jack Kerouac

XX Valerie and Camilla

 photos via Fashion gone Rouge, Todd Selby and Tim walker