Member number 62 is Hugh Donovan who completed the task by entering Clermont County, Ohio, at 1:50 PM, August 24, 2019. Prior to yesterday, its 100% Club had 61 members. The Extra Miler Club is an organization for folks who have that as a goal. There are 3142 counties in the United States of America and a surprising number of people have visited all of them. Jimmy Buffet, 1977 Posted in Travel | Tagged Maps, Statistics | Leave a reply An Awesome Travel Accomplishment If we weren’t all crazy, we would go insane.Ĭhanges in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, After all, I’m a guy who will turn around to drive a missed bit of old alignment that looks exactly like the road I was already on. Again, that doesn’t mean a lack of respect for folks who plan their travels primarily or exclusively to reach different counties. On the other hand, if I see that an unvisited county is just a few miles away, I’ll quite happily make a jog or even drive straight there and back for the score. My “live” map, which also contains numeric counts by state, is here.įor another, I’ve never made a trip or plotted a route specifically to accumulate counties. Hugh’s count was a bit less than that when I first learned of his quest back in April, but that didn’t last long. There are 1731 counties marked on the map. The map above is mine from Mob‑ (a.k.a., Why do you think they call them counties?) which anyone can use to track their travels free. That doesn’t mean I don’t track the counties I visit. It might have been feasible if I’d started when I was 30 or 40 or, like Hugh’s grandson, 15, but not now. It’s because I do not see visiting every U.S. That’s not because I don’t think it is a good organization or because I don’t respect its goals. There are, you see, quite a few differences between a man on a mission and a guy just wandering into places.įor one, I am not an Extra Miler Club member. The truth is that neither the counts nor the counting are all that similar. I had actually thought I might include something about my own county counting when I began writing about Hugh’s counting in An Awesome Travel Accomplishment but, in the end, I didn’t. I was about to queue up a Trip Peek for today’s post when it occurred to me that a follow on to last week’s post on Hugh Donovan completing visits to all 3134 U.S.
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