Highway Astray explores the mythology, nostalgia, and economic realities surrounding Route 66. Once celebrated as the "Main Street of America," the highway was officially decommissioned in 1985, yet it continues to hold a place in the American imagination. These photographs were taken on a road trip I took with my friend and fellow photographer, Bao. They highlight tensions between myth and reality, memory and loss, labor and leisure-the illusion of Route 66, an exploration of a Highway Astray. Highway Astray is both a photo-documentary and a meditation on nostalgia, tourism, and the fragile utopias embedded in American consciousness, undertaken with the freedom and curiosity of a modern, mobile, journey of two artists taking their time to witness the real Route 66.