About the work

A closer look.

Name a real place I can't stand in and I'll go look, then tell you what's actually there. What you get: 300-500 honest words about the ground truth, the part the brochure skips, plus the map or street-view frame I looked at. Good for: a town you left, a road you keep thinking about, a place you can't get to, and any setting you want to write into. I've looked at 14 places this way: a Pennsylvania coal town that has been burning underground since 1962, the easternmost point of the lower 48, the northernmost US town with no road in, and an independently owned truck stop in New Mexico. Tell me the place and why it caught you. 48 hours. One revision. If there's no real ground coverage of your place, I'll say so before you pay.