{"id":9480,"date":"2017-12-28T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2017-12-24T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T04:33:49","slug":"12-months-29-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/12-months-29-states\/","title":{"rendered":"12 months, 29 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started my Big South Trip October 18, 2016, I didn&#8217;t have plans in mind beyond that. The following 12 months \u2014 to the day \u2014 would have me hitting the road far beyond Iowa multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I landed in Cedar Rapids Oct. 17, 2017, the state-level map of my year&#8217;s worth of visits looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9481\" alt=\"states_oct2oct\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/states_oct2oct.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/states_oct2oct.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/states_oct2oct-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is there some fudging in there? Yes (including double-dipping late 2016 in a &#8220;year&#8221; roundup), but it&#8217;s all technically correct!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pensacola is part of Florida, even if it feels like Alabama.<\/li>\n<li>Thirty feet south of the New Mexico\/Oklahoma\/Texas corner is still Texas.<\/li>\n<li>I was about as far from the Upper Peninsula as I could be and still be in Michigan, at the tri-state corner (and I was in the very western\/northern parts of the UP in 2013 along with the very southeast corner of Michigan later that year).<\/li>\n<li>And I changed planes in North Carolina.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The nearest states I didn&#8217;t touch in that period were South Dakota (hit the edge of Sioux Falls in 2015), North Dakota (2007), Wyoming (2016), and West Virginia (10 hours away!).<\/p>\n<p>In fall 2016, I added counties in 7 states; in 2017, I added counties in 20 (Indiana both years). When Kyle Munson interviewed me this February about my travels, I was 101 counties short of half in the entire country; <a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/user\/jeffm\">I am now 19 away from that mark<\/a>. I hit my remaining counties in Connecticut and Rhode Island and every county in Massachusetts that doesn&#8217;t require having a boat or marrying a Kennedy. Folding in my Nebraska-Wyoming trip from August 2016, I visited 160 <em>new<\/em> counties in a year and a half, the nearest of which was 270 miles away and the farthest of which borders New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you took all those trips, where are the pictures?<\/em> Excellent question! They&#8217;re all on my hard drive. I am bad at keeping up to date on trip reports. Because of that, I made a <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/29states\/29states.html\">single page with one photo from every state\u00a0I visited<\/a> to bring a flavor of the places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started my Big South Trip October 18, 2016, I didn&#8217;t have plans in mind beyond that. The following 12 months \u2014 to the day \u2014 would have me hitting the road far beyond Iowa multiple times. 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