Notes from the Road is an American online

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and

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founded in 1999 by

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Erik Gauger, which focuses primarily on North America.{ ''

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'' magazine praised the site in 2008 for having "photos worthy of

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", and called it the best-looking travel blog they had seen. ''Forbes'' also noted that the navigation system was poor and that links were often overlaid over photographs. ''Notes from the Road'' was also picked as a favorite website by ''

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'' in 2005. According to the site, "Notes from the Road is a project in experimental travel writing - it is about subjective travel; the kind of real world of random things and real people." The focus of the travelogue is not in specific destinations, but in the subjects of travel, from

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, to

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, and to the importance of

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in society. Gauger founded the site in January 2000 to let friends know about his travels, and has since broadened to include other content such as details about political disputes between preservationists and developers in various parts of the globe.{{cite web , url=http://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/traveling/notes-road.html , title=notes from the road , access-date=11 November 2008 , date=20 October 2008, publisher=Wandering Educators ''Notes from the Road'' covers travel issues which are rarely covered by the travel media, such as controversial environmental battles such as those on

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and Sand Mountain.

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