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This is an expanded yet condensed version of my 29 states in 12 months<\/a> of ’16-17. The only additions to the red group on this map were Wyoming (two months before the 12 began), South Dakota (very<\/em> barely), Washington, Oregon, and North Dakota \u2014 all but SD 12 to 17\u00bd years since the previous stop.<\/p>\n At the close of this decade, my least-recently-visited of the 48 are Georgia, Montana (less than 15 hours in the one visit), Idaho, Utah, New Jersey (at 2 hours, now the record-holder for least time spent), and California<\/a>.<\/p>\n But small-ballers only count states. Counting counties is where it’s at<\/a>, and I racked up 128 new counties in 11 states the past two years, for a current total of 1680 (53.47%). But again, my nearest unvisited counties with an interstate in them are in Indiana and Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an expanded yet condensed version of my 29 states in 12 months of ’16-17. The only additions to the red group on this map were Wyoming (two months before the 12 began), South Dakota (very barely), Washington, Oregon, … Continue reading
![Counting counties is where it’s at<\/a>, and I racked up 128 new counties in 11 states the past two years, for a current total of 1680 (53.47%). But again, my nearest unvisited counties with an interstate in them are in Indiana and Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is an expanded yet condensed version of my 29 states in 12 months of ’16-17. The only additions to the red group on this map were Wyoming (two months before the 12 began), South Dakota (very barely), Washington, Oregon, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/counties\/user-gifs\/USA\/jeffm.gif\"){kind=link}