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American Highways, Road Trip Through America’s Heartland: New Mexico to Michigan

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All Photos by Samantha Demangate Pungent layers of mesquite smoke lingering in the crisp morning air greeted us as we sleepily stepped outside with our hot coffees. It was dawn in the high desert and the sunrise was breathtakingly colorful. We sipped our coffee and inhaled the aromatic air before packing up and departing from our lovely converted airstream AirBnB. After hitting the road we pulled into a small restaurant to grab breakfast, and in…

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American Highways, Road Trip Through America’s Heartland: Four Corners

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Photos by Samantha Demangate Sedona was magical. Any other description wouldn’t suffice. If I said anything more, it would be just another overused cliche, just like magical. Our last morning in Sedona was magical. The magical sunrise enveloped the magical rocks and canyons in magical colors impossible to capture with mind or camera. We drank our coffee and watched it intently. Minutes went by as we took it all in one last time before departing.…

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American Highways, Road Trip Through America’s Heartland

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Day 1: Highway 101 to the 10 Road Tripping through America with a raging pandemic was no easy feat. Businesses are closed, national parks shut down, monuments abandoned. Yet, regardless of the obvious set-backs, many adventures and incredible experiences awaited us, as my girlfriend and I set off on a ten-day highway journey from California to Michigan. Because of Covid we were relegated to visiting America’s small towns and less visited areas, avoiding the cities…

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