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Alternate Routes

Wendy Garrett

Travel guides, journals, interviews, research, cultural and anthropological deep dives, meditations, and philosophies exploring a more considered way to travel

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The Landscapes of Film: Badlands

I’m experimenting with a new series where I choose a film and break it down through its filming locations, looking at where specific scenes were shot and how those places shape the larger narrative. The focus will be on geography as a worki...

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Oh, the Places You Won't Go!

Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this.

―Richard Brautigan

Greetings from the beginning of January.

I’ve spent the last few weeks reflecting on where I’ve been and...

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Notes From the Road: A Northern Arizona and Southern Utah Photo Diary

Listen along with me to an old winter driving playlist called Coldest Night of The Year

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How Far Would You Go for a Sandwich?

Listen along to my playlist: Driving to Get a Sandwich

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