Category: travel
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Free Art Drop: Take. Keep. Share.
FMS has always been about exploring the path less taken, finding beauty in forgotten places, and sharing a little bit of that adventure with others. Sometimes that means a photograph. Sometimes it means a story. And now, sometimes it means leaving a little piece of art behind for someone else to find. We’re calling this…
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Preserving the History of the Path Less Taken
Some roads seem to know us before we ever turn onto them. They don’t show off. They don’t need neon signs, tourist crowds, or a line of folks waiting to take the same photograph. They just roll quietly across the Oklahoma countryside, past wheat fields, leaning fence posts, old storefronts, and places with stories still…
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The Element Era: One Year In With Elvira
There are vehicles you own… and then there are vehicles that quietly become part of the story you’re chasing. In January 2025, I picked up a 2007 Honda Element EX from Peep, and it didn’t feel like buying a used car so much as inheriting a rig that already knew what kind of life it was meant to live. This…
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The Mother Road, Pops Neon, and My First Drive Back
There are days when the road feels like the destination. This week I pulled into Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma, parked, and waited—because I wanted to catch something special rolling through: The Drive Home VII: Route 66 – A Century of Adventure, a cross-country convoy traveling the full length of Route 66 from Santa Monica to Chicago. It’s part…
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OKC Manhole Map Hunt
Forgotten Main Street usually lives on two-lane highways—rusty pickups, ghost signs, brick storefronts, and the kind of places you only find when you take the long way around. But every once in a while, the adventure isn’t out on the backroads. Sometimes it’s right under our boots in downtown Oklahoma City. If you’ve walked the…
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Forgotten Main Street Is Growing Up (Just a Little)
Somewhere between a peeling café sign in Kansas, an old truck on Route 66, and a dusty detour that definitely wasn’t fastest way home, Peep and Dixie realized something: Forgotten Main Street was never just about the lenses. Yeah, we’re still those weirdos who geek out over vintage glass, sticky aperture rings, and manual focus lenses…
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The Element Cross Country Adventure
The January 2025 trip was extra special for the FMS team as it had two purposes: vintage photography on the backroads and bringing the Element from Bellingham, WA, to Yukon, OK. The short story is simple, Peep built up an awesome adventure rig and sold it to Dixie. I flew to Peep’s hometown and we…
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The Trip Back from Lawton, OK
There are times when a good roadtrip can ease the pains of stress and help realign your senses into a focused view of life. I love to feel the wind in my hair, either by motorcycle or open car window, while listening to the hum of the asphalt chasing sunlight and the looking for the…