2016
2 new states · 2 of 48
Before the van. A roadtrip through Colorado and Utah, back when all of this was still a maybe.
- Colorado
- Utah
The YearsEvery way into the record, on one page
The Slow Version
Eight years of the lower forty-eight, in the order the van found them.
The map on this page starts empty, the way ours did. Scroll, and it fills in the order it actually happened: two roadtrips before there was a van, one enormous loop, and a few years that added nothing to the map and everything to us. The dates come straight from the timestamps on eight years of photos.
The same eight years cut the other way, by season rather than by year, are on month by month.
Keep scrolling: the map fills in one year at a time, 2016 to today.
2017
2 new states · 4 of 48
Still pre-van. Arizona and Oregon, and the maybe getting harder to ignore.
- Arizona
- Oregon
2018
1 new state · 5 of 48
We moved into the van that October, in Colorado, and learned to winter in it. Wyoming was the first state the van gave us.
- Wyoming
2019
25 new states · 30 of 48
The big loop. South for Mardi Gras and a season on the Florida panhandle, then north all the way to a sunrise on Cadillac Mountain. Twenty-five new states in one year.
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- New York
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
- West Virginia
2020
1 new state · 31 of 48
Almost no new ink. Nebraska on a summer crossing, and otherwise the places we already loved: Colorado, Utah, Arizona.
- Nebraska
2021
2 new states · 33 of 48
Two new states, opposite ends of everything: Montana and the white dunes of New Mexico.
- Montana
- New Mexico
2022
4 new states · 37 of 48
The West Coast year. California, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, and the 101 driven the slow way.
- California
- Idaho
- Nevada
- Washington
2023
1 new state · 38 of 48
Illinois joined the map.
- Illinois
2024
9 new states · 47 of 48
The Great Lakes run. Nine new states between the Dakotas and New Jersey, and Lake Superior showing off at Pictured Rocks.
- Delaware
- Iowa
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Wisconsin
Today
48 of 48
Ohio is the one missing from the years above. We have driven it, and those photographs have not made it into the archive yet.
The odometer reads 129,783. A hundred thousand of those are ours.
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