When I was 19 years old, I crossed the country by car on my way to a job fighting forest fires in California. On the way, I traveled US 50, which has been dubbed "the loneliest road in America." Coming down from the mountains into a sagebrush valley, I saw an old pickup truck ahead, parked in the middle of the highway. I stopped and got out, seeing an old man slumped over the wheel. I didn't know what to do, so I shook his shoulder through the open window, hoping he wasn't dead. He groggily awoke and said he was okay, that he had just gotten tired and decided to sleep sometime in the night. Why in the middle of the road? I'm guessing that alcohol had a lot to do with his decision-making. At any rate, I was apparently the first person to come along that lonely stretch of road.

SIZE: This photograph is printed at an approximate final size of a bit over 3x3,” and is printed on cotton rag photographic paper using pigmented inks for an estimated 400-year display life.

LIMITED EDITION: This photographic print is part of a limited edition produced by photographer Lee Rentz. The edition consists of 250 prints, which includes all sizes and methods of printing.