UntraveledRoad.com allows users to virtually travel to a multitude of locations

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UntraveledRoad * Virtual Travel for the Hiker, the Traveler and the Outdoorsman

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Kelvin Smith was born in Port Angeles, Washington and by age eight had also lived in Utah, Wyoming, California and Alaska. His fascination with roads began at an early age as he spent hours building them in the sandbox and drawing them on paper. After earning a degree in music and then working for 15 years in software development, those childhood moments made a revival as he conceived of the idea of virtual travel.

The emergence of digital photography, along with the growth of the internet, gave life to a project which had been tossed about for some time. In casting about for a domain name at the peak of the dot-com boom, Robert Frost's poem The Road Less Traveled suggested the image quiet roads in the forest and having a choice of direction. In 1999 the hometown of Paris, Idaho became the first virtual tour to be photographed and within a couple months the tour extended by highway into Utah on the south and several miles to the north, and up some of the canyons of the Bear Lake Valley.

Spending long hours and days on the road in the hot sun many miles from home, Kelvin's children take turns accompanying him on photography trips around the country, visiting a great variety of places. As Dad takes photographs, the children enter information about them into a computer, including directions, links, street names and location names. With the help of automated proprietary software, the tours are generally ready to upload to the server when the trip is over. The western United States are over-represented in the collection, being close to home, but the goal is to cover as much territory as time and resources will eventually allow.