- Started this journey
- Visited the Badlands almost completely without other tourists. Deafening Silence
- Visited Wall Drug
- Saw Devil’s Tower
- Saw a rockslide happen right where I was going
- Fell in love with mountains, Rockies and Sierra Nevadas
- Rolled uphill
- Saw tumbleweed tumblin’
- Drove on a beach
- Enjoyed the surf of a huge storm
- Walked on countless beaches
- Waited for Elk to wander off the highway
- Walked among the redwoods
- A pretty boy in the Castro said he loved my outfit
- Watched surfers off the Monterey coast
- Hung out in El Capitan meadow
- Stood in the lowest spot on the planet
- Saw the stars in the desert
- Stared down a mountain lion
- Drove 10,000+ miles
- Drove all the way across Texas
- Drove down Route 66 with the top down
- Occupied all of the time zones in the lower United States
- Crossed the Golden Gate and Mackinac bridges
- Experienced Canada, the United States, and Mexico (saw)
- Saw all of the Great Lakes (though Erie is a stretch, but I saw the Canal and Niagara split it with Ontario)