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I want to go on a trip this summer, touring all 48 contiguous US states. Anyone ever done it ,or know a good route, resources, shuls and such?
There are 50 states in total
Continental.
Google maps.
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That is the question
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Indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all
To be or not to be
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Or to fall upon the scarves
To light a camel’s yarn
Is to beguile a friend or stage!
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Touring 48 states in the summer? Its possible to be in all 48, but not to tour all of them in so little time. Youll be able to see highways motels and airports, not much more.
Pennsylvania is beautiful especially the mountain part. Also Philadelphia has Liberty Bell its special.
I’ve been to 42 states. Lots of cool stuff to see and will take you a few months minimum to see the major attractions around the country.
There are 4 main highways across the country: 40, 70, 80 and 90/94. You won’t even get close to all the states unless you do all 4. And that takes a loooong time. Are you from the NY/NJ area? Do you consider it a long drive from Brooklyn to the country? The country is quite HUGE, beyond your hasagos. Just going east west across the country twice, to cover all 4 roads is about 12,000 miles; which is about 50 round trips to the mountains. A few detours to cover the intermediate states that don’t intersect those roads, add in a Florida to Maine run, and you’re talking 14-15K miles.
So if you start out your kosher tour on the 80/90, you’ll pass Cleveland, then a small detour to Detroit then Chicago. From there there are several ways to go. If you do the northern route, you’ll get Milwaukee then Minneapolis. Then nothing frum as you go across the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, and Washington until Seattle. The head south to Portland, and California. There are several places in California, but if you goal is numbers of states, you don’t want to waste too many miles there. Maybe hit Nevada and Utah as you go South and go through Phoenix and whatever nothing Jewish in New Mexico. Then Texas, Dallas and/or Houston. Then New Orleans, Mississippi Alabama and Florida. Then up to Atlanta, and maybe the Carolinas. Then head west again covering Tennessee and Memphis, Arkansas, and St, Louis. Then Across Missouri and Kansas (KC) until Denver Colorado. Then you can head back East, via the 80, where you’ll go through Wyoming, Nebraska (there’s some decent Kosher food in Omaha), and Iowa. Then Across Kentucky to West VA, VA, MD, DE, and back home to NY/NJ. Spend a day or two doing the New England States and you’re done!
That wasn’t so bad now that I worked it out. Probably 10k!
So where you headed to first?
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Above the fruited plain
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And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
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Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness
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Thy liberty in law
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In liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life
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Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine
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That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears
America, America
G-d shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
Oh beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America, America
G-d shed His grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music hearted sea
Oh beautiful for pilgrims feet
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness
America, America
G-d shed His grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee
Oh beautiful for glory tale of liberating strife
When once and twice for man’s avail
Men lavished precious life
America, America
G-d shed His grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free
Oh beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears
America, America
G-d shed His grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again thy whiter jubilee
Oh beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America, America
G-d shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
midwesterner,
Any chance of a route around all 48 ceremonial counties of England? A lot quicker than the 48 states, unless you get on to the M25.
Sorry, never been there. Notice the handle; midwesterner, as in middle of the western hemisphere. Other than a two day visit to Zurich for a friend’s wedding, I’ve never been to Europe other than spending time in airports waiting for a connection to or from Israel.
midwesterner,
Disappointing. anyone else?
Disappointing? What were you looking for? I got every significant frum community, and a fair amount of the small ones too, except LA and Miami and surrounding areas, and every state, except 2. If you head north out of Denver on the 25 until you hit 80 going East, you can get Wyoming. And if you head East out of Albuquerque on the 40 until Oklahoma City before turning south to Dallas, you will have all 48. I challenge anyone to do better with fewer miles, and/or more frum communities.
Midwesterner, he was looking for a route in England.
OOPS! And I even responded to him earlier! Silly of me.
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