My travels for work and family take me through a lot of towns throughout the Midwest and have I always been interested in small-town architecture. My dad would almost never come home the same way that he went somewhere and he loved hitting the back roads and small towns and I have fond memories of our trips and some of the old, out-of-the way places that are almost ghost towns now. For me the trip itself is as much fun as the picture-taking. We enjoy getting off the interstate and seeing the lesser-visited towns and rural churches and schools and finding a great burger or pizza in a small-town cafe or bar.

After 15 years on Flickr I am finding myself re-visiting some towns that I haven't been through in a while. It's surprising how many old buildings in this stream are now gone. I only wish digital photography in its current state had existed earlier. I was never all that great at 35mm photography and lost a lot of old slides when our basement flooded several years ago.

There's a lot of great photographers on here and it's great to see their work and find the things I somehow manage to miss when I'm out road tripping. There are certainly better photographers than me and I'm sure I could learn a lot more but the travel and exploring are the most satisfying aspects of the hobby for us.

Some of the map locations are approximate. Flickr's mapping system still leaves an awful lot to be desired. Some of the satellite maps are a little too grainy to pinpoint exact locations.

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