Montana was always going to be an emotionally complicated state for me to visit because I first dreamt up the idea of this 50 states trip while vacationing there with my former partner. But first I had to solve the challenge of how to get my car back from Alaska. I had three possible options: 1) drive back through The Yukon and British Columbia, 2) take the ferry down with it, or 3) have it shipped. Remarkably all three options cost around the same. I’d had the luxury of driv

It feels weird to call Alaska a state. It is simultaneously distinctly American and something else entirely. It feels removed from the...

The driving route from Ithaca to Fairbanks, Alaska took me over 4,200 miles through 6 Canadian provinces and territories in sub-zero...

South Carolina marked the halfway point of this trip. It should have been a thrilling milestone. I should have been beaming with pride....

Florida. The name conjures images of bright sunlight sparkling off of aquamarine water, golden beaches, and Disneyland. I experienced...

Little did I know when I set out that a dangerous walk along a breakwater, a Civil War cannon, and a naked sunrise awaited me in North...

Mother Nature finally caught up with me in Maryland... My four hour drive from Pittsburgh to Annapolis was uneventful except for one...

After a five-month hiatus from the trip, I felt conflicted as I pulled onto the highway. It was like starting all over again, but without...

If you had told me at the beginning of this trip that my week in Iowa would be one of the most action-packed yet, I’d have told you to...

I had only planned to visit my friends on Martha’s Vineyard for the weekend, but it was so idyllic I turned it into my Massachusetts...

I don’t have much to say about New Hampshire other than I went there. It’s not that the state was awful or anything, I just didn't do a...

I was having a lot of big feelings as I departed Ithaca , on my way to the only New England state I had never visited. The two weeks I’d...

Almost two hundred years before I entered Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this remote patch of wilderness helped prevent a war between two...

I am commonly asked what my favorite place so far has been, and the answer always shocks people. I fell in love with Sandusky, Ohio....

West Virginia has always conjured up images in my mind of the locals from Deliverance , hillbillies from the backwoods of Appalachia...

It’s a tale as old as time. Man goes to Indiana for a car race and a rave breaks out… My drive to Indiana, like the drive to Kentucky,...

I hadn’t been to Tennessee since my move out to LA in 1998. On that trip, I hit a chunk of metal in the road and blew my tire 40 minutes...

Kentucky is best known for two things - horse racing and bourbon - and I had plans for both. Equipped with my new hat and dress shirt I...

I almost moved to New Orleans when I was nineteen. I was working at The John Thomas Steakhouse (which was sadly claimed by COVID), and I...

The drive from Tulsa to Fayetteville was only two hours, so I got there on Saturday. I checked into my Airbnb early and had dinner at the...