Project 50 developed as a plan to drive through all fifty states before I turned fifty, but in reality, the quest began at the age of eighteen. Since becoming a legal adult, I added states sporadically, and by 2010 the list of states to visit dwindled to ten. I embarked on an aggressive campaign to tackle the remaining twenty percent and within one year, all but one had slid to the “Conquored” column. On September 16, 2015, I landed in Honolulu and fulfilled the quest. With my bucket list effectively shattered, the reflection and recapping phase began and the collection of stories of the journey began to unfold.
- The Ice Machine In The River
- The UP
- Through the Ocala National Forest
- You Go, Girl
- Between Here and the Channel Islands
- To Live And Die In A Week
- In The Footsteps Of My Grandfather
- Life Is A Highway
- You Can See Forever
- My Oldest Memory
- On A Clear Day
- Antelope Island
- Chocolate World
- Overnight On The Amtrak
- One Hundred Years
- Trees
- My Dashing Parents
- Spans
- Hidden Beauty
- The 5th Lake
- OMES
- Are You Ready for Some Baseball?
- After the Clock Struck Twelve
- Leap Day
- Beautiful Beasts
- Perceptual Property
- George Washington
- My Son’s Mecca
- Went-to-the-Sun Road
- And the Moon Rose Over an Open Field
- Conan the Hoosier
- Jumping Off Point
- In Bloom
- Ponies and Locomotives
- Brock University
- Shared by Bears and Coeds
- The Progression of a Snowball Fight
- Jacob Lake
- Another Postcard
- A Day’s Lesson
- Souvenirs
- The Mile High Club
- Mulholland Drive
- The Idiot Tree
- The Rivers of Idaho
- Breathing Windmills
- Vapor Trails
- North Dakota on a Napkin
- Outside the Box
- The Next Chapter
- Ad Placement
- Rapid City, Rapid Change
- The Vet
- Traveling with Boys
- Desert Dust
- On The Advice of Friends
