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Jean Disser is a lifelong traveler and road trip enthusiast whose first cross-country adventure began at age nineteen in a weathered Honda Civic with a cooler, a tent, and a paper atlas. That trip—from the Atlantic coast of Maine to the Pacific cliffs of Big Sur—sparked a passion that has since taken her through all fifty states, across Canada from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, and along the length of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
Over the past two decades, Jean has logged more than 200,000 miles of road travel, often with nothing more than a basic vehicle, a willingness to take wrong turns, and an insatiable curiosity about the small towns, diners, national parks, and quirky roadside attractions that define the American road experience. She has driven the Icefields Parkway in winter, crossed Death Valley in summer, navigated the switchbacks of the Million Dollar Highway in the dark, and spent three months living out of a station wagon while exploring the national parks of the western United States.
Jean's writing has appeared in *Outside Magazine*, *Travel + Leisure*, *Roadtrippers Magazine*, and the *Washington Post*. She is the creator of the Miles to Moons travel newsletter, which reaches over 40,000 subscribers with practical trip-planning advice, gear recommendations, and dispatches from the road. Her previous book, *The Weekend Wanderer: 52 Short Road Trips from America's Major Cities*, was a finalist for the National Outdoor Book Award.
When she is not on the road, Jean lives in Bend, Oregon, where she restores vintage travel trailers, hikes in the Cascade Range, and teaches road trip planning workshops through the local community college. She believes that the best travel stories come from the unplanned moments—the flat tire that led to a conversation with a kind stranger, the wrong turn that revealed a hidden canyon, the diner where the pie was so good they stayed for breakfast the next morning too.
