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🔗 United States Trip 2021

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I have been working on visiting all of the National Parks in the Contiguous United States for almost a decade, and I decided it was time to finish. Even before I started this journey, I was always enamored by RVs. I would spend hours browsing through websites of RV makers and YouTube videos. For once, I wanted to dip my toe in these waters.

The COVID pandemic has not ended yet, but the worst seemed to be behind us. After no trips at all in 2020, I did not want to wait any more. I wasn't getting any younger. I decided I would take a 6 month trip, with the intention of purchasing a cheap RV for the duration. I started my trip in the New England area, where I rented a car and started driving through RV lots. They were almost all empty. Apparently, people bought RVs in droves during the pandemic. Instead, I decided to rent an RV for 3 months.

I travelled with the car for the first month in New England, then drove south near the Atlantic coast until I reached Jacksonville, FL, where I picked up the rental RV. I spent a month travelling within Florida, going as far south as its southermost point of Key West. I then returned north and turned west, moving between states and parks. I stopped for a relatively long time in Las Vegas, NV, before driving to Los Angeles, CA, where I picked up my sister from the airport and took her on a 3 week trip of her dreams. We traveled in southern California, Las Vegas, Arizona and New Mexico, where I took her on a trip through many filming locations of her favorite TV show Breaking Bad in Albuquerque.

After my sister left, I continued east to revisit friends in Texas, where I returned the RV. With a new car, I turned north to Oklahoma and Kansas before moving north-east towards New Jersey, from whence I flew back home.

During this trip I visited many nature preserves and finally completed my project of visiting all of the National Parks in the Contiguous United States. My last park was Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.

Living in an RV for a while (I also worked remotely from the RV) was a great experience that I'm glad to have experienced. Those three months flew by.

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Macy's July 4th Fireworks Display, New York, NY, 2021-07-04 Macy's July 4th Fireworks Display, New York, NY, 2021-07-04 Moses Statue in Albany, NY, 2021-07-05 Lake George, NY, 2021-07-07 Welcome Sign to Moriah, NY, 2021-07-09 Stowe, VT, 2021-07-13 Stowe, VT, 2021-07-14 Jackson, NH, 2021-07-15 Jackson, NH, 2021-07-15 Acadia National Park, ME, 2021-07-19 Bird in Boston, MA, 2021-07-23 Cranberry Bog near Foxborough, MA, 2021-07-24 Cranberry Bog near Foxborough, MA, 2021-07-24 Surprising Beach in High Point State Park, NJ, 2021-07-28 Somewhere In the Area of Delaware Water Gap NRA, PA, 2021-07-28 Shenandoah National Park, VA, 2021-08-02 Somewhere in Virginia, 2021-08-02 New River Gorge National Park, WV, 2021-08-04 Ashevilla, NC, 2021-08-06 Owl in Congaree National Park, SC, 2021-08-09 RV Park in Starke, FL, 2021-08-13 Ocala National Forest, FL, 2021-08-18 Silver Springs State Park, FL, 2021-08-19 Key West, FL, 2021-08-23 Approaching Dry Tortugas National Park, FL, 2021-08-24 Dry Tortugas National Park, FL, 2021-08-24 Chicken Are Roaming the Streets of Key West, FL, 2021-08-24 Somewhere in Mississippi, 2021-09-07 Dinosaur Tracks in Dinosaur Valley State Park, TX, 2021-09-14 White Sands National Park, NM, 2021-09-18 White Sands National Park, NM, 2021-09-18 Chiricahua National Monument, AZ, 2021-09-21 Lake Mead National Recreation Area, NV, 2021-09-30 Voltures in Lake Mead NRA, NV, 2021-09-30 Valley of Fire State Park, NV, 2021-10-02 Valley of Fire State Park, NV, 2021-10-02 My Rental RV at a Campground in California, 2021-10-11 Calico Ghost Town, CA, 2021-10-19 Las Vegas, NV, 2021-10-25 Las Vegas, NV, 2021-10-25 Route 66 in Seligman, AZ, 2021-10-25 Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, 2021-10-26 Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, 2021-10-26 Albaquarque, NM, 2021-10-31 Halloween in Albaquarque, NM, 2021-10-31 Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, TX, 2021-11-07 American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City, OK, 2021-11-19 Wamego, KS, 2021-11-27 Nashville, TN, 2021-12-05 Christmas in Pittsburgh, PA, 2021-12-19