Walt: A Story of Fathers, Sons, and Road Trips

Walt Seymour took a road trip with a friend from Madison, Wisconsin, across the United States and Canada, and then down into Mexico and back home in 1926.

He was only sixteen years old, and he kept a diary and photographs of his travels that his son would ultimately discover—and in a bid to reconnect with and pay tribute to his father, the son set out on his own journey, stopping at the same places his father did decades before.

The result is two different diaries whose entries show the cha...