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.

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 […]