50 States Complete It’s official. In September 2025 we officially visited our 50th state. We flew to Anchorage and immediately sprinted over to the Welcome to Alaska sign to document our arrival. Crossing this one off my list felt oh so good.
Our dream was to take an Alaskan cruise as our final stop on our road to 50. Unfortunately life had other plans. We wanted to finish #50 this year so we settled on flying in and claiming our victory. We narrowed it down to Anchorage or Juneau. Juneau would have been great because it’s the […]
#49 of #50
2025
Musings
2025 Edit Part II We are almost complete! We took another mini road trip over the extended 4th of July weekend. We flew into Fargo, visited the city for half a day then drove south to Bismarck. We spent the night and then visited Bismarck and the capitol building. We then headed to the North […]
#47 of #50
2025
Musings
2025 Edit After taking 2024 off to take a couple of international trips, we resumed our state countdown. We had achieved 44 and needed just the last six. I always grouped the travel so that we could see multiple states on a single road trip and had planned just two more trips to complete our […]
It’s a given I like to travel but sometimes life makes you take a break. I started a new job in February and they graciously scheduled my start date until after I came back from our February cruise. With my new responsibilities unfortunately this means no long vacations until next year. Weekend getaways it is. […]