A Healthy Distance — Zach Ellis Photography

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03/14/20 (Milford, NH)

03/17/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/18/20 (Lower Manhattan, NYC)

03/22/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/25/20 (Chinatown, NYC)

03/21/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/24/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/25/20 (Lower East Side, NY)

03/26/20 (Chinatown, NYC)

03/25/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/26/20 (East Village, NYC)

03/26/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/26/20 (Lower Manhattan, NYC)

03/27/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/28/20 (Lower East Side, NYC)

03/28/20 (Sturbridge, MA)

“It’s been really slow. Everything has been stocked, organized and re-stocked, except coffee. We just ran out of that. I can put on a fresh pot if you can wait a few minutes.” - Brett | 03/28/20 (Lunenberg, MA)

“Bon voyage!” - Uncle Mike | 03/28/20 (Milford, NH)

03/28/20 (Middletown, NY)

“Man, I can’t believe somebody else is out here in this rain too. I’m just walking, things are a little tense back at home right now. You know how it is.” - Nakengi | 03/28/20 (Hartford, CT)

“I think I’m going to be staying busy for a while.” - Jason | 03/29/20 (Pond Eddy, NY)

“I’m not much of a God person, but I have been praying so hard lately that this would get better. Our son is about to have a baby, we will be grandparents for the first time, and he might not even be able to be in the room while the baby is being born. But we’re going to get through this, and in the meantime, we’ll keep taking drives.” - Dawn, Mark | 03/29/20 (Sparrow Bush, NY)

“C’est la vie.” - Benoit (Benoit, Juliette) | 03/29/20 (Pond Eddy, NY)

“No one ever chooses it this way, but these are the times when we can grow the most. Right now is exactly when we can be choosing to support each other even more.” - Aaron | 03/29/20 (Narrowsburg, NY)

“I’ll meet you at that pull-out spot down the road from the house.” - Lucy | 03/29/20 (Calicoon, NY)

“I have no idea what I’m even trying to catch right now.” - Anonymous | 03/29/20 (Barryville, NY)

“The plan is to keep moving. They always need it, and I need it a lot more than the norm.” - Amy | 03/30/30 (Bethlehem, PA)

“Yeah, I know how it looks.” - Anonymous |03/30/30 (Bethlehem, PA)

“I just started a new lease.” - Jeremy | 03/30/20 (Bethlehem, PA)

03/30/20 (Bird In Hand, PA):

03/30/20 (Bird In Hand, PA)

“I’m her daughter, and we’re all friends. We’ve been taking a lot of walks lately, a lot.” - Edie (Edie, Nancy, Nicole) | 03/30/20 (Eden, PA)

“I’m one of the fastest they got out here, so they have me working 12-14 hours a day, and I’m glad to do it. Sometimes you gotta give yourself all the way to something you know is only temporary, do it right, and it’ll become a platform for your next move. And believe me, I got moves coming up.” - Manuel III | 03/30/20 (Lancaster, PA)

“I have to keep her extra safe, she’s immunocompromised normally. She needs a lot of help so I have to bring her with me on a lot of errands. Every trip makes me nervous.” - Anonymous | 03/30/20 (Lancaster, PA)

“I’m just trying to get home after work, I’m still out here working. I seen the bus go up, it usually comes through by 4, I don’t know what’s up with it today.” - Ariel | 03/30/20 (Lancaster, PA)

“I’m in landscaping. Mostly building, how do you call them? Heavy-duty fences for your property.” - Anonynous | 03/30/20 (National Cathedral, Washington D.C.)

“This bus is still running!” - Taylor (James, Taylor) | 03/31/20 (Adams Morgan, D.C.)

“It feels like Jurassic Park here. I keep hearing Jeff Goldblum‘s voice in my head on repeat saying, ‘Nature finds away.’

All the sudden there are no cars on the road, way less pollution. You can taste something better in the air. After living here for years, I saw the stars clearly for the first time this week.” - Raffi | 03/31/20 (Adams Morgan, D.C.)

03/31/20 (Capitol Hill, D.C.)

“Oh, he’s in there. But I don’t think he’s coming out anytime soon.” - Juan | 03/31/20 (Washington, D.C.)

“Of course we’re still out here putting work in. Nothin’ builds itself.” - Dennis (Greg, Hai, Dennis) - 03/31/20 (Washington, D.C.)

“13 months. She just started walking.” - Kimberly (Lydia, Kimberly) | 03/31/20 (Washington, DC)

“It’s a little boring doing the distancing thing. Kind of like watching paint dry!” - Woody (Mike, Woody) 03/31/20 (Beaverton, MD)

“I’m keeping my hands in the dirt. They seem safer there anyway, and it’s good for mental health too.” - Sandy | 03/31/20 (Beaverton, MD)

“Wait, wait, let me go grab my buddies. They’re just over there fishing, they gotta be in the pic too.” - Colton (Steven, Chris, Colton) 03/31/20 (Beaver Creek, MD)

“I’m traveling with my brother, heading back for work. Did I already tell you what I do? Mortician.” - Cynthia | 03/31/20 (Hancock, MD)

“I drive with a partner, we’re headed to Ohio. There’s so much work right now, we can’t keep up. And there’s no way he would let you get him in the picture with me… he just woke up.” - Henry | 03/31/20 (Hancock, MD)

03/31/20 (Cumberland, MD)

03/31/20 (Morgantown, WV)

“Doesn’t feel different to me at all. I’ve been isolated for two years, walked all the way here from Nebraska. Some people are nice, some people are a**holes. I don’t have a phone or email, but you could find me on Facebook. My profile picture is stoned Bart Simpson giving the finger. Pretty rad.” - Jesse | 04/01/20 (Morgantown, WV)

“Same as the religion. I was named by a minister. Born on Christmas Eve. Be safe out there man, it’s getting crazy out here.” - Christian 04/01/20 (Morgantown, WV)

“Our aunty is inside, she isn’t coming out, but she said it’s ok. Can you see the tire swing in the picture? It’s ours.” - Aaliyah (Aaliyah, Dyllon, Alec) 04/01/20 (National, WV)

“I always smile like this!” - Anyza - 04/01/20 (Westover, WV)

“I’m headed further up the hill, let me catch my breath first.” - Ginni | 04/02/20 (Fairmont, WV)

“My dad was army, uncle was marine. I went in at 28, my brother was in at 18. We were in the same platoon, on a buddy system. Boy was that a mistake. It was just stressful. If I did something wrong they would call him, and if he did something wrong, they would call me. They had us all mixed up all the time. Now I’m just waiting on a chance to get to the VA. My neck is killing me.” - Chuck | 04/01/20 (Fairmont, WV)

“Just up the road, about three or four trailers down, just before the pink one, I think it’s white and blue or white and green, something like that. Real nice people, just tell them, well... just tell them the Jones family sent you down, they might not know me but I do know that they know them.“ - Christian | 04/01/20 (Worthington, WV)

“I’m a fourth generation coal-miner and she’s a nurse. Life really hasn’t changed that much since all of this started, we have already not been spending money. This whole area used to be all Democrat, back when they were supporting coal mining jobs. But when they switched about 10 years ago, everybody started voting Republican. We had to vote for Trump last year, not because he would’ve made a great president, but because we needed to keep our jobs.” - James (James, Jesse) 04/01/20 (Shinnston, WV)

04/01/20 (Huntington, WV)

04/02/20 (Huntington, WV)

“I went to undergrad and grad school here, and now I’m the associate athletic director, so I have to come check the grounds. The birds sounds nice this morning, this place can also be so peaceful. Full capacity is over 38,000 people.” - Scott | 04/02/20 (Huntington, WV)

“Even though it’s spring break, we are still giving out meals. We feed about 1000 kids every day between our school and several others in the area. I’m a cafeteria manager from a different school nearby, but this is where they need me to be right now.” - Joey (Catlettsburg, KY) 04/02/20

“Hard at work or hardly working more like it. They gotta make sure I don’t fall off the ladder, I’m a heavy catch.” - Brad (Don, Pat, Josh, Josh, Doug, Sam, Brad, Jason) | 04/02/20 (Catlettsburg, KY)

“I’ve been doing this type of work for a long time.” -Don | 04/02/20 (Catlettsburg, KY)

“We’re gonna have drive-in church on Easter Sunday, the pastor set it up so they can all tune into a local frequency and listen live, even with the windows rolled up if they wanted to. And we probably should anyway. I teach arts and crafts, been coming here for 20 years, it’s gonna be hard not to be able to hug anyone at service next week.” - Paul Joseph Jr. | 04/02/20 (Portsmouth, KY)

04/02/20 (Vanceburge, KY)

“Now I know not everybody likes the idea of cutting down a lot of trees, but the truth is the truth. All our pulp and waste products go directly towards making paper products, and right now, that’s toilet paper.” - Wayne | 04/02/20 (Vanceburg, KY)

“We’re not very big, we do what we have to do to keep going. The big guys are doing the same. We’re still running hard, they’re still running hard. It’s all gonna work out.

This is basically the thing I enjoy most, I’m my own boss, we just do what we gotta do to keep doing it. This gets in your blood.” - Ryan | 04/02/20 (Maysville, KY)

04/02/20 (Covington, KY)

“Sí, puedes tomar una foto. ¿Es para un proyecto escolar o algo así?” - Anonymous | 04/02/20 (Covington, KY)

“We used to go to the library everyday, not right now though, that’s for sure.” - Stacie (Stacie, Mike) 04/02/20 (Cincinnati, OH)

“We’ve been spending a lot more time with our babies, not working since everything started. We get outside every chance we get though. Thank you lord for a yard for these kids.” - Lemark (father & family) | 04/02/20 (Cincinnati, OH)

“It’s actually their 20 year anniversary today, and we literally just closed an hour ago!” - Brooke (Travis, Jennifer, Travis, Brooke) | 04/02/20 (Waldron, IN)

“Most of the cases we see are not specific to covid-19, our focus is primarily on more general medical issues. The more people we can serve here, the more space we can help free up in hospitals for the people who need it most right now.” - Kylee | 04/03/20 (Greenwood, IN)

“There are a lot of restaurants around here still going strong, there’s a lot of supportive people in this community who want to see their favorite places stay open.” - Pudder’s Restaurant Team | 04/03/20 (Shelbyville, IN)

04/03/20 (Shelbyville, IN)

“Can’t get high for free. Gotta pay the fee. Rolling through the fog like my name was D O double G. Gotta get high. Gotta get by. Every single day, gotta live my life. God done demanded it. Gotta underhand that sh*t. I’m on my knees praying so hard that God don’t even understand it. And every single day it’s the same ol shit. But we’ll keep on moving, baby we don’t quit.” (freestyle) Anonymous (Dog, Friend, Rapper) | 04/03/20 (Lafayette, IN)

“It’s been a crazy couple of weeks figuring out solutions to shift everything we do to online only. Sunday services, small groups, student ministry events, meetings, they're all happening through the barrel of a lens these days. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

We’ve even live-streamed a funeral due to restrictions on in-person gatherings. When your job is serving people, it doesn’t stop because of a pandemic, the methods just change.” - Craig | 04/03/20 (Shelbyville, IN)

“My husband works as a firefighter in Indianapolis, at one of the stations most affected with the virus. He just got a test, and it came back clear, so now we can finally head up to Wisconsin, luckily where my parents live there are no recorded cases.” - Lauren (Lauren & daughters) | 04/04/20 (Wolcott, IN)

“Do you want me to smile or not? Who am I kidding... I always end up smiling!” - Dell | 04/02/20 (Morocco, IN)

“Be careful in Chicago!” - Tanya 04/04/20 (Remington, IN)

“We’ve been doing this for a long time. When there is such need among the kids of today, for us on the streets of Southside Chicago, something has to be done. This sport has so much to teach: humility, hard work, patience, family support, all of that. And in the meantime, with our current limitations, we keep reaching out in the ways we can.” - Ray | 04/04/20 (Harvey, IL)

04/04/20 (Chicago, IL)

“No estoy tan preocupado, esto es mucho más seguro que Venezuela.” - Marco | 04/04/20 (Chicago, IL)

“Peace in these streets brother. God bless the people researching how to defeat this monster.” - Lewis | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“26 hours straight.” - Dr. Sarah | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“We’re hanging in there. Not sure when the government money will come through, our application has been in for a little while now. Until it does, we’ll keep doing what we can, one day at a time.” - Scott | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“Tati doesn’t have school right now, so early might be a stretch. If we go for a bit later she’ll be up. Coffee out back when you get here?” - Matt (Tarah, Tati, Matt) | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“I still love it, but it takes a lot to manage. Urban agriculture is such a difficult practice to get right, even when you get it right. I’m by no means sure where things will go from here, but I’m certainly not giving up on this.” - Kerem | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“The last time I came in I put fresh arrangements in the windows, but they might be pretty wilted. But that means now we’ll have more petals to put out on the sidewalk.” - Christine | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“Always good to see you. Let us know when you’re in town again,. We’ll be here.” - Elvis (Yair, Elvis, Poncho the shop-dog) | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“La familia.” - Rocio | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“I mean... what I’ve been doing around here lately? Since I moved in, I’ve honestly just been inside most of the time. Otherwise I get out for walk around the new neighborhood. Looks like there will be a lot of interesting spots around here, when they are open again.” - Zach | 04/04/20 (Chicago, IL)

“As soon as I got back from a trip to Mexico with my mom and sister on the 18th, everything began to shut down. My dad was supposed to come over from Scotland at the end of March. But now he’s there and my mom is still in Atlanta with my sister.” - Kari (John, Kari) | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“It’s so crazy. It’s been three weeks since I’ve really had any real human contact, not even touch, just normal conversation. I’ve been talking to neighbors through the window, but I haven’t really left my street. If this keeps going much longer, I may have think about getting out of here, but I don’t want to lose my place.” - Tiffany | 04/05/20 (Chicago, IL)

“The market is going to come back. In fact, it never went away.” - (Anonymous) | 04/06/20 (Green Bay, WI)

04/06/20 (Green Bay, WI)

“It’s so weird to not be able to hug, but this is way better than nothing.” - Sarah (Sarah, Kaitie, Brad) | 04/05/20 (Green Bay, WI)

“Oh yeah! I grew up around here and used to come to this area for hikes all the time. I was just hear the other day, I know a good spot.” - Viviane | 04/06/20 (Delafield, WI)

“God’s been good to me.” - Joe | 04/06/20 (Johnson’s Creek, WI)

“It’s still business as usual, but it’s really raised hell with our prices. It’s, oh man, we lost over a dollar on beans, easy 50 cents on corn. Before it was at about a break even level, but now we’re at a loss. Yeah, we... we’re gonna be tight.” - Ron |04/06/20 (Walworth, WI)

“No matter who is in office, or what challenges we are facing, we are all in this together - walking the same trails, heading in the same direction. The virus is offering us an opportunity to course correct, if we choose to take it.” - Mark | 04/07/20 (Oregon, IL)

04/07/20 (Oregon, IL)

“The planes we fuel having been running non-stop, mostly Amazon and toilet paper. The second this all started we were getting called in overtime.” - Tommy | 04/07/20 (Oregon, IL)

04/07/20 (Oregon, IL)

04/08/20 (Waltcott, IA)

“Ag business is in the sh*tter. Nobody’s buying bacon anymore, restaurants don’t have as much demand and all the sudden a lot of things aren’t quite as necessary at the moment. Futures market alerts on my cellphone all day every day don’t help my stress.” - Ron | 04/08/20 (Sigourney, IA)

04/08/20 (Knoxville, IA)

“We’ve had so many people coming in, the company even had a discount pick up event near the beginning of the virus. I know they were trying to get people cheaper food, and they want to make money, but we had over 500 people come through here, no masks, no shield, nothing. I can’t wait until they let me take vacation, I have over two weeks saved up.” - Heather | 04/08/20 (Indianola, IA)

“We normally have three different baseball teams and full-time wrestling to work around. He is off work and I am able to work from home, so it isn’t really working out too badly for us. Sometimes by the end of the day we want to kill each other, but by morning it’s all hugs.” - Megan (Talon, Lenox, Jason, Megan, Diesel the dog) | 04/09/20 (Indianola, IA)

“I’m just happy to be alive bro, happy to have work and happy to be healing through the community support around me. It’s been a bumpy road, and I’m ready to keep making changes for a smoother ride overall.” - Chad | 04/09/20 (Pleasantville, IA)

“Fortunately, folks have using EMS for true emergencies only and that has kept our call volume down. That gives us more time to sanitize, and eat.” - CJ (Haylee, Alex, CJ) | 04/09/20 (Carlisle, IA)

“I can’t be working 80 hours a week for very much longer, or at least it’s getting hard to keep up that pace. I have three babies at home and two jobs, so it doesn’t really matter what I want to do, it’s what I have to do.” - Darnell (Darnell, Joe, Jim) | 04/09/20 (Des Moines, IA)

“Should throw some sparks if I hit it at the right angle.” - Jim | 04/09/20 (Des Moines, IA)

“So you’ve been across the country and back and still haven’t gotten it done?! Come on through, we’ll be here.” - Tim | 04/09/20 (Urbandale, IA)

04/09/20 (Indianola, IA)

“A lot of people are really struggling right now, which forces us to do our Celebrate Recovery ministry in new and creative ways. Same message, but different ways of bringing hope and healing to the broken through the power of Jesus! - Mike | 04/10/20 (Indianola, IA)

“People are way more than just numbers. We’re way more nuanced than that, there’s so much detail to explore and try to understand. Now listen, my wife is way better at that than I am. She started working with developmentally challenged kids when she retired, after 30 years working at the bar. I’m still amazed, and I see her doing it everyday!” - Pete | 04/10/20 (Griswold, IA)

“It’s actually been a lot busier, people are bored and buying tons of stuff for home projects. Never would have guessed it.” - Anonymous | 04/10/20 (Omaha, NE)

“I love being able to help educate people, especially when they have questions that they might not normally feel comfortable asking. I’ve been blessed to feel comfortable in my own skin, and I chose this job because I get to share that with people. Feels pretty essential to me.” - Irmelda | 04/10/20 (Omaha, NE)

04/11/20 (Omaha, NE)

“We got married last June, she’s from Trinidad and I grew up around here. Sometimes we like to hit Burger King and cruise around the area, one of the few normal things we’ve kept up doing.” - Ben (Ben, Ruth) | 04/11/20 (Omaha, NE)

“It’s a team effort. In 2017 we almost won the food truck wars competition, took second place. 2018 we got the award for best food truck in Nebraska. I didn’t even find out until the city told me, I was busy trying to keep up with the work. This is what I love to do, and I’m gonna keep doing it.” - Omar | 04/11/20 (Omaha, NE)

04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

“I don’t go to that church, never been inside. There’s been people over there though, lot of people all dressed up in real bright colors, lotta pink and yellow. Gotta get that Easter selfie.” - Kerry | 04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

“Oh yes, please! We were just trying to get a selfie with the timer, could you take one for us too?” - Steph (Sawyer, Craig, Steph, Hank) | 04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

“24/7, rain or shine, we always stay working.” - Anonymous | 04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

“We don’t have green olives, but we do have black.” - Nathan | 04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

04/12/20 (Omaha, NE)

04/13/20 (Tarkio, MO)

“Down the street you can still see my great-great-grandfather’s graduation picture, my graduation picture, my brother’s, and his. We’ve kind of just dug in and made a name, made a reputation here. And I think there’s still the calling and the need to do this because, as he said, people don’t really ever stop dying.” - Braden (Braden, Shawn) | 04/13/20 (Rock Port, MO)

“He’s the best damn drag race car tuner in the Midwest, don’t let him fool you... but he’s sh*t at darts! You wanna drink buddy?” - Jamie (Jamie, Todd, Andi) | 04/13/20 (Mayetta, KS)

“The three amigas.” - Anonymous | 04/13/20 (Rock Port, MO)

“I have a bunch of friends that can’t even leave their house, their parents have them on total lockdown.” - Kamar (Christa, Kamar) | 04/13/20 (Topeka, KS)

“It hurts to have to let so many people go. We are waiting on the government money still and fully intend to bring everyone back that we can. But who knows how long people can wait. It really sucks.” Eli | 04/14/20 (Topeka, KS)

“This town is actually pretty small, everyone knows everyone here if you stay around very long. That’s a nice thing sometimes, but sometimes it’s nicer not knowing what‘s going on across the street.” - Brett | 04/14/20 (Topeka, KS)

04/14/20 (Topeka, KS)

“I came over from Mexico 27 years ago, and now I live in Batavia, Illinois with my husband. We met online and he started coming to visit me on his bike at the drive-thru where I work... eventually I made him go get a license. We started dating, and six months later, we got married. Now we’re having a honeymoon driving across the country.” - Samara | 04/14/20 (Topeka, KS)

04/14/20 (Eureka, KS)

“Right now if you walk onto a reservation clinic, even if you’re from another tribe, they’ll take care of you, no questions asked. Matter of fact, they do that for each other all the time. I came here in a bad spot, and I’ve been more than taken care of, and I have a pretty dope gig now.” - Kameron | 04/14/20 (Pawhuska, OK)

“This town came up almost overnight when some key people invested into it. Most of these shops and restaurants you see around here are new, the downtown area is alive now... well not exactly right now, but compared to only a few years ago, this is still way better.” - Ryan | 04/14/20 (Pawhuska, OK)

04/14/20 (Pawhuska, OK)

“We’re still doing what we can, making distanced appointments and spending a lot of time on the phone. A lot of time.” - Ty | 04/15/20 (Pawhuska, OK)

“This placed used to be a DayLight donut shop, the oldest in the country before it shut down. I’ve been running the shop out of here for five years now, since 2015. Now the only donuts we make here are steel ones.” - Phil (Charles, Jack, Phil, Fish) | 04/15/20 (Pawhuska, OK)

“A Shawnee family is inviting the public to celebrate a veteran in a special way. A drive-in funeral service will be held on Thursday for Robert Cearley at the Shawnee Bowl parking lot. Cearley had been a member of a bowling league there for many years and was inducted into the Bowling Hall of Fame in 2004. The service will start at 2 p.m. If you would like to attend, please stay inside your vehicle.” - K. Severin (ABC8 Tulsa News) | 04/15/20 (Shawnee, OK):

“That place across the road used to be a part of this place. Then they turned it into an animal park. I used to ride horses for Joe’s dad, so I know them for oh, a bunch of years, back in the eighties.

Joe wasn’t a bad neighbor, what they did on their side of the road was their business, what we did over here was ours. They borrowed the tractor, sh*t like that all the time. One of the things that’s bothered me, and everybody around here the most is... as crazy as they all were, they all carried guns, strapped to ‘em. And that’s just a disaster waiting to happen, and it did happen over there.” - Shawn | 04/15/20 (Wynnewood, OK)

“Let’s be quick about it.” - Anonymous | 04/15/20 (Wynnewood, OK)

04/15/20 (Wynnewood, OK)

04/15/20 (Cache, OK)

04/16/20 (Sulphur, OK)

04/16/20 (Purcell, OK)

“Sometimes it’s slow, sometimes it’s busy, depends on the day. We find ways to keep each other laughing everyday.” - Isaiah (Myranda, Isaiah, Kyra) | 04/16/20 (Central, OK)

“I’m trying to retire and move to Oregon or Washington area, probably Spokane. I’ve never been there, but it looks beautiful. Now I just have to get back to work as soon as possible and keep saving.” - Fran | 04/16/20 (Central, OK)

04/16/20 (Lone Wolf, OK)

“I love that I get to call this my job. Finding stories, writing them, laying out the paper, printing, marketing, it’s a lot, but it’s not as hard as you might think, even for one person. And because of this work I know almost everyone around the area, and a lot that aren’t even from here at all. I have 287 subscribers, one as far as Oregon.” - Sydney (The Claude News) | 04/16/20 (Claude, TX)

“I’ve been out here for a week and a half so far. Used to be a welder, went to tech school about a half an hour away from here, but a week ago I got in a fight with my friend and he kicked me out of his trailer. I’ve been out here ever since.” - Tex | 04/16/20 (Amarillo, TX)

04/16/20 (Amarillo, TX)

“Mucho gusto, ten suerte con tu proyecto y cuídate por el camino.” - Anonymous | 04/16/20 (Amarillo, TX)

04/17/20 (Santa Rosa, NM)

04/17/20 (Dilia, NM)

04/17/20 (Pecos, NM)

“Oh, I love it out here man. I already worked from home, so that hasn’t changed much... for me it’s all about finding a place where I can keep getting outside.” - Brandon | 04/17/20 (Santa Fe, NM)

“I’ve lived alone for a long time, and I’m quite good at it, but a week or so before the virus hit, I met Tula and adopted her. Might have been chance, but either way, I’m glad she’s around.” - Michael | 04/17/20 (Santa Fe, NM)

04/17/20 (Sante Fe, NM)

“If a governor or ruler were to say something in contradiction to the law of God like, “Now you have to have an abortion.” or something, that is clearly in defiance of God’s law and no one would abide by it. This is, this is different, distancing and isolation is not getting in the way of us serving the Lord. And it’s a temporary thing, and it’s for the good of others.” - Jael | 04/18/20 (Topeka, KS/Sante Fe, NM)

04/18/20 (Santa Fe, NM)

“Pandemics up until the scientific revolution were caused by angry gods who were judging among those who died and then judged among those who died and lived, you know, who went to heaven. That was our Christian archetype, that same formula goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and even before. There’s an epidemic in the Iliad… so that’s, that’s how old this is.” - Dr. Todd G. | 04/18/20 (Santa Fe, NM)

04/18/20 (Los Cerrillos, NM)

“I love this place, this is home. It’s not perfect, but hell... neither are we, and we’re still doing alright.” - Dave | 04/18/20 (Santa Fe, NM)

“Was talking to a close friend the other day. She told me about two couples, childhood friends actually, that took the time to visit each other a couple weeks back. They wanted to blow off steam and hadn’t seen each other in years. Work was no longer an excuse so they finally connected. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀

One of the couples stopped to visit her on the way to their destination. Both men died from COVID-19 last week. Their wives tested positive/ asymptotic. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀

If there’s one thing I hope folks take away from this pandemic experience, it would be that we truly are all in this together. - Heidi | 04/18/20 (Los Cerrillos, NM)

04/19/20 (Santa Fe, NM)

“Doesn’t really matter what we catch, as long as it’s clean enough to eat. Otherwise it’s just a nice excuse to get out of the house.” - Esteban (Ximena, Jasmine, Esteban, Manuel) | 04/19/20 (Pilar, NM)

“Quiero verlo primero.” - Stefanie | 04/19/20 (Pilar, NM)

04/19/20 (Taos, NM)

“There are a lot of days when I have to convince myself not to drive all the way out here for the view, for this feeling. You just can’t come out here and not have your life put a little more into perspective.” - Juliette (Juliette, Sitka) | 04/19/20 (Taos, NM)

04/19/20 (Taos, NM)

“This is some of the craziest times we’ve ever experienced. Some of us are working, some of us are laid off, some are in total limbo, so why not take a picnic? If we’re gonna talk about what’s next and what we can start doing, might as well do it with a view.” - Kayla (Alan, Anita, Kayla, Tahbo) 04/20/20 (Canoñes, NM)

“We stay in hotels with a lot of delivery stops each day, 4-5 days on the road and then a few days off. You have to keep moving with unstable product, before it goes bad. Sometimes when we can’t get rid of it all in time we have to call in another truck to help. It’s good work, thank god we like working together, it’s a lot of time in a car with another person.” - Paul (Paul, Anthony) | 04/20/20 (Nageezi, NM)

04/20/20 (Bisti Badlands, NM)

04/22/20 (Farmington, NM)

04/21/20 (Shiprock, NM)

"Battling COVID on the reservation is a fight for the lives of our country's sacred Native Americans. We will not rest until we win." - Dr. David (Dr. John, Samantha RN, Megan RN, Dr. David) | 04/21/20 (Farmington, NM)

“We’re heading your towards Washington, slowly but surely. The hotels around here aren’t too bad, ours wasn’t super high end or anything either. Pretty cheap, very clean.” - Edward (Edward, Robert) | 04/21/20 (Farmington, NM)

“We’ve served a lot of students in the last few weeks. Hundreds of free pizza lunches for kids who aren’t getting fed at school right now and don’t have great options elsewhere. Lotta phone calls.” - Austin, (Austin, Stephanie, Dylan | 04/21/20 (Farmington, NM)

04/22/20 (Farmington, NM)

“They’re not ready to go back to school yet. It’s been too easy at home with mom.” - Tracy (Tracy, Wyatt, Aiden) | 04/23/20 (Upper Fruitland, NM)

04/23/20 (Waterflow, NM)

“Sarah, I need you before the end.” - Anonymous | 04/23/20 (Kaibito, AZ)

04/24/20 (Page, AZ)

“We’re on the road for this work all the time. New people, new places... it’s doing the same thing for us each place. I think I got better at it each time. Not just the work part but the life stuff too. It’s not to bad.” - Randy (Randy, Kevin) | 04/24/20 (Lone Rock, UT)

“Sure! Let us go get grandpa from his cabin so he can jump in. You can include the baby too but we’re not far enough along for a name yet. Once it’s born that’ll be four. Then we’re definitely done.” - Arielle (Paisley, Arielle, Kip, Brielle, Porter, Dylan) | 04/24/20 (Kanab, AZ)

04/24/20 (New Harmony, UT)

“We’d love to have you for dinner if you can stay for a bit. We’ll set everything up in the backyard.” - Allegra (Franco, JT, Aubrey, Leslie-María, Allegra, Dante) | 04/24/20 (New Harmony, UT)