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Starting Point: San Antonio, Texas
Finishing Point: New Orleans, Louisiana
Trip Totals
States: 48
Towns: 370
State Capitals: 33
Fun Facts
• Pennsylvania is the only one of the 13 original states that doesn't border the Atlantic Ocean.
• You’re never more than 60 miles from salt water in any place in Florida.
• Indiana is the smallest state west of the Appalachian Mountains in the continental United States.
• The state of Kansas has more than 6,000 “ghost towns.”
• Maine is the only state that shares its border with only one other state.
• The Great Salt Lake has no fish living in it.
May 19, 2021
It took 60 days to put our initial virtual journey in the books. Over 8 weeks during spring 2021, we posted our columns as we took […]
December 16, 2020
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March 20, 2021
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March 21, 2021
Most recently updated on May 2, 2023 Driven on March 20, 2022 Originally posted on March 21, 2021 Ever heard of Fred Harvey? Probably not, but […]
March 22, 2021
Most recently updated on May 3, 2023 Driven on March 21, 2022 Originally posted on March 22, 2021 We’d love to linger a bit longer in […]
March 23, 2021
Most recently updated on May 4, 2023 Driven on March 23-24, 2022 Originally posted on March 23, 2021 In old cartoons, there are numerous moments when […]
March 24, 2021
Most recently updated on May 5, 2023 Driven on March 25, 2022 Originally posted on March 24, 2021 Today, it’s all about the border. We start […]
Spotlight
March 18, 2021
The most underreported story of the 20th century. That’s how author Isabel Wilkerson in her book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” describes The Great Migration, the […]
March 13, 2021
I went to bed hungry once. I was in community college in San Diego living in a beach house with two other guys. My roommates weren’t […]
March 6, 2021
We don’t make anything anymore. That’s a refrain heard often in Rust Belt regions and elsewhere in the country. In reality, though, the United States still […]