Alternate Routes
Wendy GarrettAlternate Routes is a travel philosophy newsletter from researcher, photographer, road trip expert, and documentarian Wendy Garrett.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 20 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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San Sebastián and the Outsider
Listen along to my playlist for a long train ride in the Spanish countryside
“Nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time - the time...
Meditations in an Emergency
Read the Frank O’Hara poem here
Near the end of January, I reached the limit of my capacity to remain a bystander to suffering. My own deep grief from last two years has made it nearly impossible to metabolize the collective grief moving t...
Notes From the Road: Dispatches from the Tucson Gem + Mineral Show
Listen along to my Tucson Gem + Mineral Show themed playlist
Greetings from Tucson! I started writing this newsletter while sitting outside on my pink patio at the Arizona Inn just before a brief downpour that lasted all of eight minutes...
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...
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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Wendy Garrett is a researcher, photographer, and road trip expert exploring place, people, and the unknown.
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