[PHOTOS BY: TYLER WAY]
The element of a road trip for this “50 States: Artists + Veterans United” tour was crucial for us because we were determined to piece together the diversity of this country, both socially and geographically.
New York City is a place that, although very relevant in the country’s culture and media, feels far away to most living in the United States. The combination of the city’s uniqueness, its romanticized lifestyle according to thousands of TV shows and movies based there, its idolization across not just the country but the world, its location on an island along the east coast, and its false familiarity among many makes it close but far.