I call it 50at60. A quest to see all 50 states during my 60th trip around the sun inspiring the name of the site I decided to start. The plan? To share my research, planning, and documentation of this kind of what can only be described as a bucket list of sorts.
As I have already been to most states (about 40 I think), some of these will be a revisit, but a visit none the less. And what exactly constitutes a “visit”? Well, to give it some sort of a bar to reach or metric, I have chosen a minimum of 36 hours spent in the state. I know, an easy achievement that I am sure I will surpass with most of these visits.
So again, as I mentioned, the site like I said is called 50at60.com. A quest to visit all 50 states during my 60th year here on Earth. To accomplish this, I plan on taking monthly outings in somewhat carefully planned routes, loops, and efficiently planned paths as to NOT haphazardly wander about, the the roamer I have been up until now during my travel trips. Seems like a good idea as my plan is not to empty my retirement savings!
I do like to wander though, but decided to take a different approach this time around, or this entire YEAR around. In fact, I started creating a couple of maps to get the journey started.
My first state will be Nevada (I think) as I have booked myself at the TravelCon convention / conference in Portland, Oregon in May so I figured I would design or route the first outing around that.
Seemed like a nice way to start the journey.
I attended this Conference before in Boston and it seemed like a perfect time to connect with like minded Nomads as well as travelers of all types to get me in the mood and focused for the year. I created this map today actually that covers 8 states. A pretty efficient plan if I do say so myself 🙂
The first trip is sneaking up 🙂
I will be trying to focus on small towns on this first loop, as well as most others. In fact, I did a whole month of posts of exactly that, small towns, that will be released starting tomorrow, April 1, 2024 on a daily basis! Make sure and check back here for that. I’ll try to put a tab for the small towns on the site, as well as all the small town posts after all the posts have been uploaded 🙂
With the help of AI, I have created some images from 6 of the first areas I hope to visit on this first leg out on the “project”. I think they came out pretty cool or at the very least, sparks the imagination!
Will I follow these exact routes? Who know. Most likely not. They are a good start though. A good start for THIS roaming cat 🙂
