On the Cover: "Sunshine Bridge After Sundown"

Photo by Philip Gould

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The day before sending this issue to press, I (your Managing Editor, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot) am gearing up to head westward—to Fredericksburg, for a weekend spent with old friends and new. My car’s tank is full, my bags are packed. I already know I won’t get much sleep tonight—never quite having outgrown that childhood anticipation for a morning departure. The road, it’s calling. 

Long promoting driveable adventures and experiences, Country Roads’s “Road Trip” issue celebrates those further-afield destinations that require a bit more time spent in the car—an embrace of the in-between, the liminal world of the “on the way to somewhere,” the space between home and adventure. The somewhere matters, of course, and we hope this issue provides plenty of inspiration for your next landing spot. But in Gould’s capture of the iconic Sunshine Bridge, part of his Bridging the Mississippi series, we recognized the spirit of the drive. The on the way. 

So, where to next? 

See more of Gould's work at philipgould.com.

Read the whole April "Road Trips" issue here.