50 States

31 December 2024

Hilo to Mountain View

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50 States blog

• • 02 January 2023

    The adventure continues

  • 26 February 2023

    Eureka Springs

  • 10 August 2023

    Columbus to Cincinnati

  • 04 April 2023

    Key West

  • 23 July 2023

    Portland environs

  • 19 January 2023

    Tuscon (a desert hike)

• • 27 April 2023

    Oak Ridge to Ashville

  • 12 December 2023

    Portland (Multnomah Falls)

  • 17 November 2023

    Jackson (Grand Teton NP 2)

  • 29 July 2023

    Bar Harbor, ME to North Conway, NH

  • 17 September 2023

    Ashland to Duluth

  • 03 March 2023

    Arkansas to Tennessee

• • 20 April 2023

    Charleston environs

  • 25 June 2023

    Hartford

  • 11 April 2023

    Savannah to Atlanta

  • 10 October 2023

    Topeka (Brown v. Board of Education)

  • 28 December 2023

    Hawaii, the Big Island (Hakalau NWR)

  • 23 November 2023

    Sun Valley

• • 14 January 2023

    The Grand Canyon

  • 13 August 2023

    Cincinnati to Detroit

  • 09 April 2023

    Savannah

  • 04 June 2023

    Wilmington to Atlantic City

  • 28 March 2023

    New Orleans - even further afield

  • 05 August 2023

    Buffalo, NY to Cleveland, OH

• • 11 May 2023

    Fayetteville

  • 15 December 2023

    Lincoln City (King Tides 2)

  • 23 September 2023

    Twin Cities to Cedar Rapids

  • 02 March 2023

    Hot Springs National Park

  • 05 June 2023

    Atlantic City (Cape May, Ocean City)

  • 04 October 2023

    Ironton

• • 04 March 2023

    Memphis

  • 10 January 2023

    Tonopah to Henderson (Another challenge)

  • 15 October 2023

    Lincoln

  • 24 September 2023

    Cedar Rapids (Czech and Slovak museum)

  • 20 January 2023

    Tucson (Desert museum and raptors)

  • 01 February 2023

    Garden of the Gods and The Paint Mines

• • 15 February 2023

    UPS fail

  • 13 June 2023

    Pittsburgh to Lancaster

  • 21 August 2023

    Fort Wayne

  • 26 December 2023

    Hawaii, The Big Island (Hawaii Volcanoes National Park)

  • 21 March 2023

    Jackson

  • 21 June 2023

    NYC 2 [Midtown Manhattan]

• • 11 September 2023

    Milwaukee

  • 18 June 2023

    Catskills

  • 13 March 2023

    Birmingham to Mobile

  • 02 June 2023

    Wilmington (the best laid plans ...)

  • 31 July 2023

    North Conway, NH to Bristol, VT

  • 01 September 2023

    Louisville [Churchill Downs / Kentucky Derby]

• • 18 March 2023

    Biloxi and Ocean Springs

  • 15 March 2023

    Mobile and the Gulf Coast

  • 01 January 2023

    San Diego to Indio

  • 18 December 2023

    Grant's Pass, OR to Klamath, CA

  • 20 November 2023

    Sun Valley (Craters of the Moon National Monument)

  • 12 February 2023

    Alamogordo to El Paso

• • 09 March 2023

    Nashville (sort of)

  • 30 April 2023

    Asheville to Virginia Beach (the worst drive yet)

  • 26 March 2023

    New Orleans - past the French Quarter

  • 01 October 2023

    St. Louis (History day)

  • 25 September 2023

    Cedar Rapids (Amana Colonies)

  • 30 January 2023

    The mystique of frozen water

• • 09 December 2023

    Gig Harbor, WA to Portland, OR

  • 11 October 2023

    Topeka to Manhattan, KS

  • 19 June 2023

    Catskill to NYC

  • 02 October 2023

    St. Louis (More History)

  • 04 February 2023

    Durango to Santa Fe

  • 12 July 2023

    Natick [Boston]

• • 08 July 2023

    Providence to Natick

  • 05 July 2023

    North Kingstown to Providence

  • 30 December 2024

    Hawaii, The Big Island (Punaluu Black Sand Beach)

  • 22 July 2023

    Portsmouth, NH to Portland, ME

  • 25 July 2023

    Portland to Bar Harbor

  • 22 October 2023

    Scottsbluff, NE to Custer, SD

• • 15 November 2023

    West Yellowstone, ID to Jackson, WY

  • 23 April 2023

    Wilmington 2

  • 12 March 2023

    Birmingham day 2

  • 20 October 2023

    Valentine to Scott's Bluff

  • 24 April 2023

    Wilmington to Oak Ridge

  • 27 October 2023

    Wall (Badlands National Park)

• • 11 February 2023

    Carlsbad Caverns

  • 10 February 2023

    Santa Fe to Alamogordo

  • 26 May 2023

    Ocean City (Assateague Island NWR)

  • 19 April 2023

    Charleston

  • 06 February 2023

    Bandolier National Monument

  • 25 April 2023

    Greensboro

• • 09 February 2023

    A short hike

  • 07 December 2023

    Seattle (Wild Lives)

  • 23 August 2023

    Fort Wayne to Indianapolis

  • 24 May 2023

    Easton 2

  • 26 October 2023

    Custer to Wall

  • 22 December 2023

    San Francisco (Museums)

• • 24 November 2023

    Hailey to Boise

  • 16 September 2023

    Ashland (more waterfalls)

  • 29 January 2023

    Denver Environs

  • 03 April 2023

    Islamorada to Key West

  • 14 October 2023

    Colby, KS to Lincoln, NE

  • 06 December 2023

    Seattle (Seattle Art Museum)

• • 14 April 2023

    Atlanta to Columbia

  • 05 October 2023

    Ironton to Kansas City

  • 12 June 2023

    Pittsburgh 2

  • 22 January 2023

    Zion in winter

  • 22 March 2023

    Mississippi to Louisiana

  • 23 May 2023

    Easton (Blackwater NWR)

• • 21 January 2023

    Tuscon, AZ to Zion National Park, UT

  • 07 April 2023

    Miami

  • 28 February 2023

    Buffalo National River

  • 11 January 2023

    Henderson (A day of R&R)

  • 13 July 2023

    Natick ([Salem]

  • 31 August 2023

    Louisville [Bourbon Tour]

• • 01 September 2023

    Des Moines (Bridges of Madison County)

  • 02 May 2023

    Virginia Beach to Richmond

  • 24 February 2023

    Oklahoma to Arkansas (land of Walmart)

  • 21 April 2023

    Charleston to Wilmington

  • 05 September 2023

    Chicago [art museums]

  • 17 February 2023

    Fort Worth

• • 06 May 2023

    Roanoke to Charleston (WV)

  • 14 May 2023

    Washington D.C.

  • 07 October 2023

    Kansas City (Art, history and BBQ)

  • 11 June 2023

    Pittsburgh

  • 29 September 2023

    Des Moines (Living History Farms)

  • 24 August 2023

    Indianapolis

• • 01 November 2023

    Bismark

  • 13 October 2023

    Colby (badlands)

  • 02 July 2023

    Newport 2

  • 21 November 2023

    Sun Valley (Black Magic Canyon)

  • 10 June 2023

    Princeton to Pittsburgh

  • 06 June 2023

    Atlantic City (Foresythe NWR, Ocean City)

• • 13 January 2023

    Henderson, NV to Crand Canyon, AZ (or Friday the 13th)

  • 22 May 2023

    Baltimore to Easton

  • 13 November 2023

    Gardiner, MT to West Yellowstone, ID

  • 10 July 2023

    Natick

  • 15 September 2023

    Ashland (more rain)

  • 13 December 2023

    Portland to Lincoln City

• • 08 December 2023

    Gig Harbor (Washington State History Museum)

  • 22 November 2023

    Sun Valley (Niagara Springs State Park)

  • 07 August 2023

    Cleveland (sex, drugs and rock and roll)

  • 13 April 2023

    Atlanta environs

  • 17 March 2023

    Gulfport

  • 17 October 2023

    Lincoln to Niobrara State Park

• • 28 September 2023

    Des Moines (History day)

  • 20 February 2023

    And ... It's Monday ....

  • 23 February 2023

    Tulsa

  • 13 May 2023

    Fayetteville to Washington D.C.

  • 07 July 2023

    Providence 2

  • 10 March 2023

    Tennessee to Alabama

• • 06 September 2023

    Chicago [history museums]

  • 16 May 2023

    Washington D.C. 3

  • 05 November 2023

    Medora, ND to Great Falls, MT

  • 01 May 2023

    Virginia Beach (and a tornado)

  • 18 September 2023

    Duluth (Gooseberry Falls State Park)

  • 27 February 2023

    Eureka Springs and Sprungbilly

• • 10 May 2023

    Charleston WV to Fayetteville WV

  • 03 December 2023

    Seattle

  • 24 January 2023

    Salt Lake City (but not really)

  • 10 December 2023

    Portland (Oregon Museum of History)

  • 31 May 2023

    Dover

  • 20 August 2023

    Munising to Fort Wayne

• • 24 June 2023

    NYC to Hartford

  • 27 July 2023

    Bar Harbor [Quoddy Head State Park]

  • 19 March 2023

    Gulfport to Jackson

  • 08 September 2023

    Chicago [last look]

  • 20 September 2023

    Duluth to the Twin Cities

  • 20 March 2023

    Jackson environs

• • 29 March 2023

    New Orleans and environs

  • 16 November 2023

    Jackson (Grand Teton National Park)

  • 14 August 2023

    Detroit [Henry Ford]

  • 04 August 2023

    Bristol, VT to Buffalo, NY

  • 21 December 2023

    San Francisco

  • 11 December 2023

    Portland (not a good day)

• • 29 December 2024

    Hawaii, The Big Island (Kona helicopter flight)

  • 27 December 2024

    Hawaii, The Big Island (Waipi‘o Valley)

  • 30 June 2023

    Groton, CT to North Kingston, RI

  • 01 August 2023

    Bristol [Isle La Motte]

  • 09 May 2023

    Charleston 3

  • 18 February 2023

    Texas to Oklahoma

• • 19 May 2023

    Washington D.C. to Baltimore

  • 08 March 2023

    Knoxville (and a relatively cheap lesson)

  • 30 March 2023

    Louisiana to Florida

  • 04 May 2023

    Richmond to Roanoke

  • 18 July 2023

    Keene to Portsmouth

  • 18 May 2023

    Washington D.C. 4

• • 08 August 2023

    Cleveland to Columbus

  • 18 October 2023

    Niobrara to Valentine

  • 19 November 2023

    Jackson, WY to Hailey, ID

  • 20 June 2023

    NYC (I survived alternate side parking)

  • 08 February 2023

    Another abbreviated day

  • 03 November 2023

    Medora (Theodore Roosevelt NP, North Unit)

• • 26 July 2023

    Bar Harbor [Acadia National Park]

  • 02 August 2023

    Bristol [Quechee Gorge]

  • 10 April 2023

    Savannah environs

  • 18 January 2023

    Sedona to Tucson

  • 18 April 2023

    Charleston environs

  • 15 May 2023

    Washington D.C. 2

• • 25 March 2023

    Baton Rouge to New Orleans

  • 07 September 2023

    Chicago [more art]

  • 04 December 2023

    Seattle (Port Townsend)

  • 01 December 2023

    Fairbanks

  • 15 June 2023

    Lancaster to Philadelphia

  • 18 August 2023

    Paradise to Munising

• • 01 January 2022

    And that is why they call it an adventure

  • 25 February 2023

    Beaver Lake and Leatherwood Lake

  • 18 November 2023

    Jackson (Grand Teton NP 3)

  • 03 August 2023

    Bristol environs

  • 12 November 2023

    Gardiner (Yellowstone NP - Lamar Valley)

  • 02 November 2023

    Bismark to Medora

• • 01 January 2023

    Malibu to San Diego via Highway 1

  • 09 August 2023

    Columbus environs

  • 20 December 2023

    Klamath to San Francisco

  • 16 August 2023

    Detroit to Paradise

  • 17 December 2023

    Grant's Pass (Crater Lake)

  • 25 January 2023

    SLC to Moab

• • 30 November 2023

    Fairbanks (Chena Hot Springs 3)

  • 05 July 2023

    Newport - Bristol [It's all about the people]

  • 12 May 2023

    Fayetteville 2 (and some clouds!)

  • 14 December 2023

    Lincoln City (King Tides)

  • 01 January 2023

    NYC 4 [museums]

  • 31 October 2023

    Fargo to Bismark

• • 16 June 2023

    Philadelphia

  • 15 January 2023

    Grand Canyon to Sedona (Did I make it out of the Grand Canyon?)

  • 25 December 2023

    Mountain View to Hilo

  • 02 December 2023

    Fairbanks, AK to Seattle, WA

  • 31 December 2022

    Pre-departure

  • 27 May 2023

    Ocean City, MD to Rehoboth Beach, DE

• • 05 January 2023

    A day in San Diego

  • 03 September 2023

    Herod

  • 12 October 2023

    Manhattan, KS to Colby, KS

  • 11 August 2023

    Cincinnati

  • 06 November 2023

    Great Falls to Whitefish

  • 16 January 2023

    Sedona

• • 16 March 2023

    Mobile to Gulfport

  • 22 April 2023

    Wilmington

  • 01 July 2023

    Newport

  • 23 December 2023

    San Francisco to Mountain View

  • 08 June 2023

    Princeton

  • 10 September 2023

    California to Milwaukee (by way of MDW)

• • 21 September 2023

    Twin Cities (History day)

  • 14 November 2023

    West Yellowstone (Red Rock Lakes NWR, MT)

  • 27 January 2023

    Canyonlands National Park

  • 16 April 2023

    Columbia environs

  • 08 November 2023

    Whitefish (Bison Range)

  • 15 December 2022

    Questions people are asking me

• • 03 October 2023

    St. Louis to Ironton

  • 06 March 2023

    Memphis to Nashville

  • 06 August 2023

    Cleveland

  • 29 October 2023

    Wall, SD to Fargo, ND

  • 16 December 2023

    Lincoln City to Grant's Pass (Newport Harbor)

  • 28 May 2023

    Rehoboth Beach (Prime Hook NWR)

• • 16 February 2023

    And now it's a story

  • 29 April 2023

    Asheville 2

  • 27 June 2023

    Hartford to Groton

  • 30 September 2023

    Des Moines, IA to St. Louis, MO

  • 17 January 2023

    Sedona (Snow is better than rain)

  • 03 June 2023

    Wilmington (Brandywine parks)

• • 20 May 2023

    Baltimore

  • 08 April 2023

    Miami to Savannah

  • 24 March 2023

    Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge

  • 03 May 2023

    Richmond

  • 15 August 2023

    Detroit

  • 01 April 2023

    Sarasota to Islamorada Key

• • 09 January 2023

    Exploring Toponah, Nevada

  • 30 May 2023

    Dover (Bombay NWR)

  • 03 February 2023

    Durango

  • 14 March 2023

    Mobile

  • 22 February 2023

    A good surprise

  • 08 May 2023

    Charleston 2

• • 26 June 2023

    Hartford 2

  • 22 June 2023

    NYC 3 [Downtown Manhattan]

  • 31 December 2024

    Hilo to Mountain View

  • 14 September 2023

    Madison to Ashland

  • 12 January 2023

    Henderson (It's a small world)

  • 23 October 2023

    Custer

• • 25 November 2023

    Boise (Snake River Birds of Prey NCA)

  • 31 March 2023

    Destin to Sarasota

  • 12 September 2023

    Milwaukee to Madison

  • 07 November 2023

    Whitefish (Museum of the Plains Indian)

  • 07 February 2023

    Sometimes life throws you a curve ball

  • 25 October 2023

    Custer (caves)

• • 29 November 2023

    Fairbanks (Chena Hot Springs 2)

  • 05 February 2023

    Santa Fe

  • 02 February 2023

    Colorado Springs to Durango

  • 24 October 2023

    Custer (Mt. Rushmore)

  • 05 December 2023

    Seattle 2

  • 24 July 2023

    Portland environs 2

• • 14 July 2023

    Natick [Saugus]

  • 25 May 2023

    Easton to Ocean City, MD

  • 01 January 2023

    Kansas City (A tale of two cities in more ways than one)

  • 27 November 2023

    West Seattle to Fairbanks, AK

  • 28 July 2023

    Bar Harbor [Acadia National Park]

  • 31 January 2023

    Denver to Colorado Springs

• • 26 November 2023

    Boise to Seattle

  • 21 October 2023

    ScottsBluff

  • 30 October 2023

    Fargo

  • 26 September 2023

    Cedar Rapids to Des Moines

  • 30 August 2023

    Lexington to Louisville

  • 28 August 2023

    Lexington [Red River Gorge, Natural Bridge State Park]

• • 23 September 2023

    Twin Cities (history, art and politics)

  • 19 July 2023

    Portsmouth

  • 29 May 2023

    Rehoboth to Dover

  • 12 August 2023

    Cincinnati 2

  • 07 May 2023

    Charleston, WV

  • 05 March 2023

    It's all about the people

• • 16 July 2023

    Keene [Rhododendron State Park]

  • 09 October 2023

    Topeka

  • 26 August 2023

    Indianapolis to Lexington

  • 09 July 2023

    Natick [Lexington and Concord]

  • 19 August 2023

    Munising

  • 27 August 2023

    Lexington

• • 11 March 2023

    Birmingham

  • 20 July 2023

    Portsmouth 2

  • 04 November 2023

    Medora (Roosevelt NP, South Unit)

  • 09 November 2023

    Whitefish to Gardiner

  • 07 January 2023

    A day in Joshua Tree National Park

  • 25 August 2023

    Indianapolis [Big Oaks NWR]

• • 07 June 2023

    Atlantic City to Princeton

  • 17 August 2023

    Upper Peninsula

  • 01 March 2023

    Another difficult history lesson

  • 23 January 2023

    Zion National Park to Salt Lake City

  • 27 March 2023

    New Orleans - further past the French Quarter - and back again

  • 06 April 2023

    Key West to Miami (with another car issue)

• • 17 June 2023

    Philadelphia to Catskills

  • 01 June 2023

    Dover to Wilmington

  • 22 February 2023

    Intersections and connections

  • 17 July 2023

    Keene [Mount Monadnock]

  • 14 June 2023

    lancaster

  • 17 April 2023

    Columbia to Charleston

• • 28 November 2023

    Fairbanks (Chena Hot Springs)

  • 13 February 2023

    Disaster averted

  • 28 October 2023

    Wall (Badlands NP 2)

  • 08 January 2023

    Indio to Tonopah

  • 01 January 2023

    My first challenge

  • 28 April 2023

    Asheville

• • 22 August 2023

    Fort Wayne 2

  • 28 January 2023

    Moab to Denver

  • 15 July 2023

    Natick, MA to Keene, NH

  • 09 September 2023

    Chicago to California

  • 05 April 2023

    Key West 2

  • 26 April 2023

    Raleigh-Durham

• • 03 July 2023

    Newport 3

  • 09 June 2023

    Princeton 2

  • 01 January 2023

    Denver

  • 04 September 2023

    Herod to Chicago

  • 19 February 2023

    Oklahoma City

  • 19 December 2023

    Klamath

• • 13 September 2023

    Madison

  • 21 July 2023

    Portsmouth 3 [Great Bay NWR]

  • 02 September 2023

    Louisville to Herod, IL

  • 28 June 2023

    Groton (Stonington)

  • 19 October 2023

    Valentine

  • 17 October 2023

    Niobrara

• • 21 May 2023

    Baltimore 2

  • 03 January 2023

    Lucia to Malibu

  • 10 November 2023

    Gardiner (Yellowstone NP - Mammoth Hot Springs)

  • 15 April 2023

    Columbia

  • 23 March 2023

    Baton Rouge

  • 05 May 2023

    Roanoke

• • 14 February 2023

    Austin

  • 11 July 2023

    Natick 2

  • 26 January 2023

    Delicate Arch

  • 01 January 2023

    Groton [Mystic]

  • 29 August 2023

    Lexington [museums]

  • 07 March 2023

    Nashville

• • 02 April 2023

    Islamorada

  • 11 November 2023

    Gardiner (Yellowstone NP - Mammoth Hot Springs 2)

  • 30 July 2023

    North Conway

  • 24 December 2023

    Mountain View

  • 06 July 2023

    Providence