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Two Riders. 48 States. One Question: What Is Love's Story?

Could knowing love’s story across places, cultures, and lives help reconnect us with one another and create a world of hope; one in which differences do not divide, but fascinate and inspire? Ride with us through the stories, photographs, radio, film, and encounters gathered across 100,000 miles, and through the work still growing from them.

Since 2014

On The Road & in The Studio

100,000+

Miles So Far

48

States

Hundreds

of Conversations & Interviews

The Question That Put Us on the Road

After four decades together, people kept asking Scotte and Toni Burns the same question: What’s your secret? Rather than offer an answer, they climbed onto their Harleys and carried the question across America.

They listened in churches and bars, reservations and prisons, city streets and quiet kitchens,  discovering a living map across this diverse human geography of how people find one another, hold one another, and become more fully human through it.

Where the Journeys Have Led So Far

Book Cover - A Map of Souls

A Map of Souls: The Quest for Love's True Story

The book born from 100,000 miles of road, story, inquiry, and encounter.

Scotte writes at his desk in Spearfish, SD

Read The Log

The Cartographer's Log

Scotte’s ongoing essays on love, marriage, consciousness, the road, and a few good dogs - work that grew from Journeys to Love and continues beyond it.

Scotte & Toni film new video - Deadwood, SD

Media & Archive

Videos, joint podcast appearances, PRX radio programs Love Is History and Tales from The Heart of America.

As Seen and Heard On

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NPR Logo - Link to SDPB
Public Radio Exchange - Love Is History show
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