Photo of the Day #27

Heinz Memorial Chapel

Photo of the day #28

June 26, 2013, 2:54 PM
Random photo from my collection.

My parents were both truck drivers. I remember paging through their photo album of orange-tinted highway views from their truck cab. It was there that I saw my first desert view. The landscape was so foreign to me, being from eastern Pennsylvania. The flat, arid plane stretched out to the sandy stone mountains. That is where my wanderlust was born.

After graduating from college in 2011, I took a road trip to Alabama to visit the photographic sites of my favorite photographer, William Christenberry. The trip was a spontaneous adventure, as rushed as it was. It whetted my appetite to visit the unknown and experience new places.

Jump to 2013 when I still daydreamed about those orange cactuses. I made it my new mission to road trip west and photograph everything I saw. Here are some photos from that trip: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jesspetro/albums/72157634445080705/

The photo that you see here was on my last leg of the 21-ish day road trip that started in Pennsylvania, down to New Orleans, west to Houston and Los Angeles, north to San Francisco, and back home across the country. I stopped in Pittsburgh and stayed with my cousin Ben who was attending Pitt at the time. I was grateful for the company, a night of sleep in a bed instead of my 2010 Honda Civic, and a proper shower! While Ben was in class, I wandered around the city, in an exhausted haze, photographing the various sites.