Sunset along Logan Pass in Utah, viewed from the Fire Girl-mobile.
I have a two-week assignment back in Montana coming up in ten days. I’m driving back up to spend some time in the river country helping a film crew and chasing some stories of my own. Planning for the trip has gotten me thinking about the drive down to Texas from Montana a few months ago.
While the whole experience of marathon driving from southern Montana to southern Texas in 35 hours was rather memorable, I had indeed forgotten that I self-assigned a photo project on the road. I didn’t stop save for gas, which limited photography options slightly. However, I did have a point-and-shoot in my camera bag and thought I needed something to look forward to along the way.
Enter the 100-Miles project. I took a snapshot in my side mirror every one hundred miles along the way from Montana to Texas. From road construction on the Yellowstone Plateau to thunderstorms on the Texas plains, the pictures mark the trek. (The is one stretch, somewhere in southern Utah and Colorado, that I only took a few images over an eight-hour period. But, hey, it was dark. One only needs so many images of blackness with little squiggle light lines.)
The project, along with copious amount of loud music and rolled-down windows, kept me awake on the drive down. I rarely use the point-and-shoot anymore, but it really came in handy this time. Who knows what the next trip to Montana will produce?
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