… but it’s the beginning of new things for her. She wrote:
I know I am going to be processing this journey for some time, and I don’t just mean the films. I know, it wasn’t a radical vision quest in some remote land, it was just driving Route 66 across America… but this trip was indeed life-altering for me. At the start, this was just going to be a great road trip where I would get to see what was left along this famous highway and to document it photographically. Because I lost my full-time job, I finally had the time to be able to do just that – to learn about the Route and to personally witness its deterioration and its restoration. But somehow along the way, it grew into a much larger journey about my own personal growth. Being alone on the road for so long, camping in unlikely places, experiencing random encounters with people I met, having strangers connect with me on the blog and getting attention from the media because I turned the lemons of job loss into a lemonade of adventure… it all brought me so much more than I ever imagined possible.
The whole thing’s worth reading, and about many of her thoughts, I can relate.
And because her PictureRoute66.com site has gotten such a favorable reaction, she says she’s going to continue writing on it indefinitely. After all, a trip on Route 66 may end, but the journey of life keeps going.
UPDATE: I didn’t see this earlier, but a story about Wheaton was published in the Amarillo Globe-News today.