LARPing America

Essays, photographs, and dispatches from a summer spent driving around the United States.

Departs in 1 dayFirst stop: Sparta / Wisconsin woods
A green-and-white 1996 Ford F-250 extended cab with a pop-up camper in the bed, parked in a driveway in Minneapolis
Minneapolis · June 2026

For one summer I'm driving a 1996 F-250 with a pop-up camper on a long loop around the United States.

Minneapolis east through the north woods, down the seam of the Appalachians, across Texas to watch a rocket, through the desert to the Pacific, and back. Lakes, county fairs, gas stations, courthouses, launch pads, parking lots.

I'm writing it down as it happens. The essays go out by email.

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Field notes

Dispatches

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Short notes from wherever the truck is parked, usually written the same day. The trip starts June 13.

The loop

The route

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A two-lane road through open prairie
  • Sparta / Wisconsin woods

    Jun 13 – Jun 17

    First stop out of Minneapolis.

  • Kansas City

    Jun 18 – Jun 20

    World Cup matches.

  • Ithaca / Finger Lakes

    Jun 25 – Jun 26
  • Goshen / Hudson Valley

    Jun 27
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