By the time I retired, I had visited as many countries as I had visited states of the United States. I felt as though I had missed an opportunity to see as much of our country as possible. During our mission to visit all of the Major League Baseball parks, my husband and I visited some additional states. But we still had more to go.
So in 2014 and 2015 we set out on a new mission to visit the rest of the United States. During the eighteen months I saw more and learned more about our country than I did during my formal education. What I saw and experienced gave me a greater appreciation of our country, its different landscapes and its diversity of people and cultures. In June 2014 we covered the Great Plains. The fall of 2014 we covered the southern states with an emphasis on the Civil Rights historic sites. In March 2015 we spent a week in Hawaii and in June 2015 we spent a week in Alaska. We completed our mission! Thanks to my husband for helping make this possible; sharing the experience made it more meaningful.
But there are places we would like to revisit and places we missed. So we are creating a new list...
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