Road Trip Photos: The Ballad of Route 89 From Canada to Mexico—past seven national parks and 1,700 miles (2,735 kilometers) of the promised land—on the West's most Western highway. Photograph by Jeff Pflueger
In Emigrant, just north of Yellowstone National Park, we stopped at a well-loved watering hole known as the Old Saloon. During a short happy hour, we had plenty of wild conversations with the locals. Here, a man at the bar tells me of his early days as a biker. —Photographer Jeff Pflueger