U.S.80 was the first coast-to-coast highway in America, pre-dating even the fabled Route 66. It spans nearly 3,000 miles and runs between Savannah, Georgia and San Diego, California, covering an enormous diversity of landscape and culture.This includes the rural south, scarred by civil war and civil rights, boom towns of Texas enriched with oil surplus, and creeping scarcity as scrubland gives way to the western deserts along the Mexican border. Having been superseded by interstates, this once thriving road now lies mostly forgotten through parts of America that are often overlooked.During three visits between 2008 and 2009, I travelled the road with a friend several times, building a collection of photographs that document its landscapes and people. These works are large format photographs from this collection.