In 2021, I met Leana on a dating site. She lived 280 miles away, and as I made that commute to see her, I became interested in the communities along the way. It started with me admiring buildings and landscapes, but soon I started to explore the culture and people of these places.

It started in 2021 as I was rebuilding my life after a divorce. I met a wonderful woman, leana, through an online dating site. Leana had grown up in a rural town in northern missouri, and was now living in another small town off highway I-44. It was a 280 mile commute to see the woman who would become my future wife; along the way, I began to look around at the communities along that route. At first, it was because a single building or landscape caught my eye. But the more I shot, the more I began to dive more deeply into the people and the culture of these places.