In Retrospect

I went 51 in 51

I watched the 3 rivers come together at “Point Park” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

I went for my first “Halloween Costume Party” in South Windsor, Connecticut

I rode on the “Wine Train” in Napa, California

I watched one of worst movies ever made in Mayfield Heights, Ohio

I spent an evening listening to live music on the “Music Row” in Nashville, Tennessee

I saw the city from the top of ‘The Arch’ in Saint Louis, Missouri

I had my palm read at ‘Reverend Zombie’s Voodoo Shop’ in New Orleans, Louisiana

I crossed the length of ‘Central Park’ in Manhattan, New York

I walked through the famous ‘Skyway’ in Minneapolis, Minnesota

I hiked the “Continental Divide” in Glacier National Park, Montana

I saw the “fish toss” at ‘Pike Place Market’ in Seattle, Washington

I spent an afternoon on the “Cliff Walk” in Newport, Rhode Island

I had breakfast before sleeping after sunrise during my stay in Las Vegas, Nevada

I saw one of the best marketing films at the “World of Coca Cola” in Atlanta, Georgia

I did an “Escape Room Game” with dozen screaming teenage girls in Austin, Texas

I went to the “Happiest Place on Earth” in Orlando, Florida

I took a ride around the famous “Speedway” in Indianapolis, Indiana

I fulfilled a promise at the “National Cherry Blossom Festival” in Washington D.C.

I went on the “Bourbon Trail” in Louisville, Kentucky

I went to a “comic-book themed museum” in Baltimore, Maryland

I visited all the bars up and down the one main street in Fargo, North Dakota

I stood in line for doughnuts at midnight in Portland, Oregon

I went to my first “State Fair” in Springfield, Illinois

I walked the “Freedom Trail” in Boston, Massachusetts

I went to one of the nation’s most famous zoo’s in Omaha, Nebraska

I had a drink in the same bar where the “Revolutionaries” hung out in Dover, Delaware

I understood why the sport of “NASCAR” matters in Charlotte, North Carolina

I found a “speakeasy” behind a drug store in Jackson, Mississippi

I stood at the edge of the chasm in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

I visited ‘Fort Sumter’, where our Nation was reborn, in Charleston, South Carolina

I saw a “Western Showdown” at ‘Old Cowtown Museum’ in Wichita, Kansas

I attended the taping of the longest running network broadcast in Salt Lake City, Utah

I saw the “Midnight Sun” in Anchorage, Alaska

I had an uneasy visit to an abandoned prison in Boise, Idaho

I had Lobster the way one is supposed to have it in Portland, Maine

I saw an incredible “Frank Lloyd Wright House” in Manchester, New Hampshire

I found not 1, not 2, but 3 “secret bars” in Denver, Colorado

I saw the best “State Museum” of them all in Charleston, West Virginia

I hiked down to the “black sands” of the caldera in ‘Volcanoes National Park’, Hawaii

I spent an afternoon discussing “race relations in the South” in Birmingham, Alabama

I studied “Hot Air Balloons” and “Nuclear Science” in Albuquerque, New Mexico

I visited the “other White House” in Richmond, Virginia

I learnt “Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world” in Des Moines, Iowa

I stood under the "Presidents noses” on Mount Rushmore in Rapid City, South Dakota

I remembered some of the good times from my college days in Madison, Wisconsin

I walked the ‘Jersey Shore Boardwalk’ in Asbury Park, New Jersey

I spent a fantastic morning on a typical New England Farm in Burlington, Vermont

I walked through a field of geysers in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

I saw a football game with 111,000 fans in Ann Arbor, Michigan

I rode a “streetcar trolley” in Little Rock, Arkansas

I was reminded by Woody Guthrie on why I had started this journey in Tulsa, Oklahoma

I went 51 in 51