Exploration Stories

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: the Original Scroll . . . Last week we got to check off another bucket list [...]

Totally bummed out, we reluctantly climbed back into the van. The place was locked up solid, total bust. Little did we know . . .

“Ah ha, hush that fuss, everybody move to the back of the bus.” ~OutKast Sometimes a little adventure into the frigid winter turns into some Knowledge Dropped. Such was the case when [...]

“Owanka the City of Promise • Near where the Box Elder Flows We hope someday will be famous • Who can tell? Nobody knows.” ~ “Boost for Owanka,” Lottie Gorman CHAPTER TWO It’s an oddly warm late [...]

“Prairie wind the chatter of the corn husks on the old school road” ~Haiku, Michael McClintock CHAPTER ONE It’s Halloween night. Chris and I pull into Mitchell, South Dakota, wrapping up our [...]

“Please consider my chariot, the shotgun seat is free The radio reads kilohertz, but girl that’s all we’ll need The taillight’s busted, the fender’s rusted, the gears they [...]

This incredible building would not be out of place on Route 66 or the Lincoln Highway. But it certainly felt out of place amidst the modern big box and chain stores. It was as if the town of [...]

“If this isn't Photoshop, then how do you do it?”

We get a lot of questions about our work, but this is the most asked, by a landslide. We answer with [...]

It's already been five years since we launched Fading Nostalgia. Read about how it all began...what we've tackled this last half decade...and our dreams of what's to come.