Notes from the Road

Notes from the Road is an American online travel journal and blog founded in 1999 by travel writer Erik Gauger, which focuses primarily on North America.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=7604|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041214095525/http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=7604|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 14, 2004|title=Best of the Web:Notes from the Road |access-date=11 November 2008|work=Forbes Magazine}}{ Forbes magazine praised the site in 2008 for having "photos worthy of National Geographic", 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 Time Magazine in 2005.{{cite news |first=Graham |last=Holliday |title=Web of Knowledge|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901050808-1087778,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313231702/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901050808-1087778,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 13, 2007|publisher= Time Magazine|date=31 July 2005 |access-date=11 November 2008 }}

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."{{cn|date=April 2017}} The focus of the travelogue is not in specific destinations, but in the subjects of travel, from cultural history, to biology, and to the importance of travel writing 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 news |first=Tom |last=Haines |title=Who's blogging? Virtually everyone|url=http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2008/02/17/whos_blogging_virtually_everyone/?page=full |publisher=Boston Globe |date=17 February 2008 |access-date=11 November 2008}}{{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 Great Guana Cay and Sand Mountain.