Across the USA on 1 Gigabyte a Day

The final state of my virtual trip is serving comprehensive slices of American pie. Southeastern Washington may not be a microcosm of the…

Wyoming, I usually say without hesitation. But now I must add Idaho. Based on sheer dramatic beauty, my response answers a question…

“There’s something inherently exciting knowing that you might be the first person to ever gaze upon a scene that happened in the past.”…

From canal-side mills in upstate New York to remnants of steelworks in West Virginia, my trip across Street View America has turned up…

It’s all land across northern Wyoming, and nothing reveals more about land than the occasional, isolated man-made structure.

I’ve traversed some mighty open spaces of late, but here in Wyoming — America’s least populated state — Street View speaks especially of…

Am I in New Hampshire? What happens at Rapid City, South Dakota, is enough to make the Street View traveler think there’s a glitch in…

Expanse and sparsity notwithstanding, no segment of my virtual road trip has served up more visual clues to aspects of American life than…

Coastal ignorance unmasked: I didn’t know the Cornhusker State’s #1 agricultural product is not corn. It is beef.

Here, along the Platte River’s eastern Nebraska stretch, I have come across “quite probably the future capital of the U.S.A.,” and, if not…

Here’s my little contribution to the debate around Street View, privacy, and Google’s face-blurring technology: There’s nobody on the…

Far down this Iowa road, on the left side beyond the farmhouse and trees to the right, is a pixel of a bump above the October corn.