The Record
Where We've Been
Every way into eight years of our own dated photographs, on one page: the map, the places, the trips, the months, and a planner for your own route.
Everything we know about where we have been lives on one of the pages below, and all of it comes from the same place: the dates and locations on eight years of our own photographs.
They are the same eight years asked different questions. Start with the one you arrived with.
Where have you been?
32 road trips
The MapEight years, one van, and every one of the lower forty-eight, drawn the slow way.
23 places with a story
Places, State by StateOne page for every pinned place on the map, twenty-three of them, from the Oregon coast to a village an hour up a dirt road in northern Laos.
2016 to 2024, a year at a time
The Slow VersionEight years of the lower forty-eight, in the order the van found them.
What happened on the way?
When should I go?
12 months
Month by MonthWhere we actually were in each month of the year, from eight years of dated photographs: the Arizona desert in January, the Maine coast in September.
37 of 53 places we have been to
The Pacific Coast by SeasonWhen to drive the Pacific coast, read off our own dated photographs: a year living in San Diego, and one long late summer drive north to Washington.
85 of 116 places we have been to
The Mountain West by SeasonWhen to drive the mountain west, read off eight years of our own dated photographs: the Colorado high country May to November, the desert in winter.
78 of 103 places we have been to
The East Coast by SeasonWhen to drive the east, read off eight years of our own dated photographs: the Great Lakes in August, New England in September, Florida January to May.
212 of 298 places we have dated photos from
Plan Your RouteBuild a road trip across the States and we'll tell you the month to drive it, from eight years of our own dated photographs. Not from a database.