William Elmore Gann is a photographer, photojournalist, and teacher born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on a Mississippi River farm. He is a world traveler raised in Southern California, and has been writing and photographing for over fifty years. 

He was a Navy Photographer in Vietnam. Gann's by lines are found in Scholastic Magazine, American Folk, the Anaheim Bulletin, The Los Angeles Times, The Fullerton Observer, Sierra Magazine, and countless Web-based publications. He has published five Ebooks. During his working years, Gann traveled in a ’66 VW Kombi on expeditions around North America. This book is a collection of road stories.