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 […]

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 […]

We took a break in 2024 and did some international travel. This year I also started a new job so unfortunately no long vacations until next year. We took the three day Memorial weekend opportunity to visit our 45th, 46th, and 47th state – Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa respectively. It was jammed packed but extremely […]

Lorene and I love to cruise. We stay ready – anywhere, any place, anytime – you ask and we are probably there. I took this particular cruise in 2012 and again in 2017. I had been thinking about it for the last few years and in early in 2024 I mentioned to Lorene that we […]