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RE: Pay It Forward Entry - Week 25

in #curation6 years ago

Oh my goodness! I am blown away by your wonderful words! We do appreciate you sharing our post and even the Question of the Day. I must say, you made me laugh so hard and I do love that.

Yes, we are actually trying to "collect" all 3,144 counties of the United States and it is wonderful. As you mentioned, we try to experience the different cultures, people, and whatever the counties have to offer. I know it sounds a bit odd to be doing the travel this way, but it has enabled us to see a lot of the US already and we are only at 442 counties so far!

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We believe you have to "Get Out, Live Life Outside Your Box" to experience life. Unfortunately, there are some who can't do the travel and our goal is to help them see our world through our videos, photos, and blog posts.

If you want to see how we got started on this adventure, go here: https://steemit.com/counties/@xcountytravelers/we-drive

Oh, and yes, we love to travel together, but it's not all roses! There have been threats of leaving one another along side the road a time or twelve. However, it's usually because we have been driving too many long hours and we need a break.

@bengy, thank you, again for sharing us with your readers.
Thanks,
Ren

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Oh wow! You have a few more to go! I like the way you have mapped this out! It's like a puzzle, or a mathematical networking/optimisation problem, you can't cross a path that you already traversed, and what is the minimal path you can find!

The hardest part of the whole thing is sitting down and mapping it out. We live in a small county in the Northeastern area of Oklahoma. This means we have to take major highways to get to the places where we can go to new counties. For example, we are making a trip to Tucson, Arizona, in October. This means we have to travel all the way across Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle to get to a place we have never been.

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Here you see (from left to right) the states Arizona, New Mexico, Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma. We have We have completed Oklahoma and a lot of the Texas Panhandle. The red counties are the ones we will pass through to get to Tucson and the orange counties are the ones going home. We try not to go the same way twice. This enables us to pick up more counties.

We have decided, if we can get a good reaction to our GoFundMe, we will get every county of Arizona. This would be a first for us because we have had to work on Oklahoma and Arkansas in about three or more trips. If you want more information on this, you can visit our blog and look for the post Every County Counts in Arizona.

I am sure this is more information you were looking for, but you never know.
Ren

Oh wow - then the best is yet to come! You've not been to any of the counties I've lived in!

Oh, I can't wait to get to your counties. What state are you in?
Ren

I grew up in Oregon, but have also lived in Washington (several different parts), Wisconsin, New York and currently live in Wyoming.

Oh so many wonderful counties to visit!
Ren

If you make it to Chicago let me know (@thedarkhorse).

Oh, most definitely. We are planning a trip up highway 75 to Canada, then going east and coming back down through the Chicago area. Not sure when, but sometime in 2019.
Ren

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