Out of town for a few days

I'm not quite sure that I have any regular readers, since I've only been maintaining my site for a couple of weeks. Michelle and I are leaving this afternoon for a pre-wedding honeymoon to the Pacific Northwest. Later today, I'll be in Seattle. It would be kind of neat to run down to the ocean today (which is about five miles from my house) so I could see the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the same day...never done that before!

I have set a goal for myself to visit all fifty states before July 15, 2009 -- my 26th birthday. That way, I can say that I've been to all fifty states by age 25. We fly into Seattle tonight and will rent a car. We'll drive as far east as Glacier National Park in Montana and as far south as Salem, Oregon. The big triangle will give me two new states (Washington and Oregon) and complete the lower 48 for me! I'm very excited to know that by Saturday, I'll only be two states away from my goal (Alaska and Hawaii).

I've never actually met anyone that has been to all fifty states. Well, I'm sure that I have, but I certainly didn't know about it. My grandma's friend had been to 49, missing North Dakota, and my friend's dad, Bob, has been to all but Alaska.

I'll try to post from the road. Time to go pack!