State 50

To me, it made perfect sense to have The Last Frontier State by MY last frontier.

Going to all fifty states before turning thirty was something I always hoped to do. I made it to 49, but some years, there’s a pandemic, and other years you get pregnant, and soon that before thirty list has a few adjustments in pen to make it a before 33 list.

This summer, I finally got to go to my 50th state, which was Alaska- a state I somewhat deliberately saved for the very end because it seemed like the coolest note to end on. I was right. I’d love to go back, knowing how much more there remains to see and do.

I feel super lucky. To have seen so much of this big, complicated country. To have friends who want to share the adventure and celebrate this with me. To have kids just at the start of their own adventures.