My 50th state. What a milestone.
If it wasn’t completely obvious already, I’m a geography lover.
I spent a large amount of time in childhood bedroom with maps and kid-atlases, learning random facts about state flowers and longest rivers and things.
Whenever I visit a city, state, or country I haven’t been to before, I kind of feel like a kid at Disneyland meeting one of the characters in real life. “It’s you! I’ve heard so much about you…”
For a few years now, Alaska has stuck out as the only state I hadn’t been to yet. Getting to see all of them was a bucket-list level item, and as I try to do at least one of those every year, I got my chance this summer
I’m lucky to have seen so much of our big, wild, multifaceted, complicated country. Thank God for road trips and conferences, a few big moves, living out of a van in my 20s, and the upside of having friends that have spread their roots all over the place.
Now what? Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing more of Alaska. I’d love to check out the spots that are so far north things start to get a little weird.
