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Wawa remains firmly in second place in our rankings of best road trip convenience stores. Buc-ee’s Wawa Sheetz QT Love’s 🏷️ 25.05C

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We also stopped by an overlook for Three Mile Island yesterday. 🏷️ 25.05C

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We also visited Clifford Brown Park, an interesting “listening garden” dedicated to the jazz legend. What a fun concept! (see rsjon.es for a video/audio clip). 🏷️ 25.05C https://rsjon.es/2025/05/22/we-also-visited-clifford-brown/

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This morning we dipped down into Delaware to visit three of the schools at the heart of cases that were consolidated into what became the Brown v Board of Education desegregation case (yep it included far more than just Monroe Elemetary in Topeka). 🏷️ 25.05C

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My progress on the first leg of the trip, which started in Columbus and ends here in Philly (Jen flies in tonight for leg 2). Blue counties are ones I’ve already visited. Dark green are the new ones I marked off on this trip, while light green ones are revisits. I’m now over 2000 total counties!

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Worlds End State Park 🏷️ 25.05C

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I’ve driven some great 1+ lane forest roads here in Pennsylvania. Just look at this arching canopy!

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Perhaps the oddest town name sign I’ve ever come across… What exactly is the message here? 🏷️ 25.05C

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A few iphone shots of Adams Falls in Ricketts Glen State Park, best known for its gorge-ous waterfalls—more than 20 of which can be seen on a single loop trail. I could only poke in for a bit given time constraints and the crappy weather, but this was well worth the journey to get there. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Welp, it appears that three unending days of rain is upon me, which will curtail most of the outdoor stuff I had planned today. Oh well, still a few good views to be had, even when it’s unnecessarily wet. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Whoopsie 🏷️ 25.05C

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Pennsylvania ain’t too shabby… 🏷️ 25.05C

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While you hear a lot more about its sequel, this here was the OG. 25.05C

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Got #LostNeededDirections along the way. Had originally planned to stop at the venerable Straub, one of the oldest family-run breweries in the country, but it inexplicably closes at 2pm today. Sadly, that’s been par for the course on this road trip. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Spent the morning wandering thru Forest Cathedral, one of the earliest and most influential campaigns to protect old growth forests on private lands, which resulted in the creation of Cook Forest State Park (PA). A lovely walk, should have taken some more photos! 🏷️ 25.05C

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🤘 🏷️ 25.05C

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Stopped by this fun little local waterfall today, tucked into a small grotto near a railroad line. Looks like the local church maintains the parking area. 🏷️ 25.05C

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Tonight’s view over the Allegheny River. 🏷️ 25.05C

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It would not surprise anyone that the birthplace homestead of Rachel Carson has a yard like this. Paying homage to an American great. 🏷️25.05C

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The dichotomy of the year 2025: tech dude playing around with his high end drone gear midday on a Monday while two seemingly-homeless dudes stretch out and relax on the next benches over. 🏷️ 25.05C

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At the rapid pace I keep on some of these road trips, esp those that I’m planning on the fly, it’s just impossible to coherently post photos/updates. Every trip I assume that it’ll be different this time—for some unknown reason—and yet…same story. Anyway, I’m seeing lots of fun stuff! 🏷️ 25.05C

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I’ve been traveling pretty fast since landing in Columbus on Sat afternoon. But here’s what my accommodations have looked like so far. While I brought a tent, I’ve just been sleeping in the rental car—which has been quite handy, as I’ve been arriving at camp around midnight. 🏷️ 25.05C

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I believe it 😂 🏷️ 25.05C

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After getting stuck behind at least two dozen buggies over the last 15 miles of rural highway, I was not at all surprised to find this sign. 25.05C

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Roadside truths https://rsjon.es/2025/05/18/roadside-truths/

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I’m off on a 2+ week questing roadtrip adventure. I’m flying my camping gear into Columbus, then heading across northern PA via Pittsburgh. Jen flies into Philly midweek, and we’ll hit several national park units up into Maine. She’ll fly home from Boston, and I’ll drive back to Columbus. 25.05C

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“If you save one life, it is as if you saved the world.” 📍 The Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial 25.05C

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It’d be great to have a good term for this : We Need to Remember Problems We Solved

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Our local brewery has a thing about tiny dinosaurs; three scattered throughout. So we had to offer up our own addition (they provided the can). 😆

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I wrote a bit about our recent weekend of local museums, which included a neighborhood historical society, a historic fire station, and an exhibit and interpretative site on the WWII-era Japanese American internment camp that was located just south of metro Phoenix.

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Today is the one year anniversary of my dad’s death. It’s been a weird year since he passed away. I’ve vacillated between reflection, gratitude, sadness, and confusion. Today, I’m commemorating it with a beverage (or several) at the place we’d enjoy happy hour together in his last few years.

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When the wife notices that the BEST DEAL you found happens to add a couple days (cough—ok, quite a few—cough) to the trip, which might allow you to pull some of your roadtrip shenanigans that deposit you in states adjacent to the states adjacent to where you had planned on going, for weird quests.

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Saturday afternoon at the office.

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@robertbreen.bsky.social bet this is going to be really useful! When do you head out to NYC?

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My local public library branch now offers their own version of Amazon Lockers for hold items, which means you can show up any time of day and pick up the book or media item you reserved online without ever going inside.

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I forgot to post this last week, but I also finally updated my progress on a few other relatively new quests (aka, Jen helped research a bunch of shit for me). → A National Park in 50 Different Countries: rscottjones.com/quests/na… → 100 UNESCO... https://rsjon.es/2025/05/06/i-forgot-to-post-this/

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9 years ago today, I visited—nay, SUMMITED—the very very very tippy top high point of…Delaware. No safety ropes, sans supplemental oxygen, avoiding certain danger. Badass style. IT MADE ME FEEL SO ALIVE (and marked off another item on my High Points of Otherwise Flat States quest) 😆🤣🤣

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This 22-min video on the secret economics of Google Street View, especially the “unofficial” street view additions, was more interesting than I expected.

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A rabbit hole to determine if human blood accounts for 2% of all US exports.

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Whoops, I accidentally adopted a new quest today: ☑️ Visiting a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 50 Countries. 😆🤣🤷‍♂️ (I’m at 27/50)

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More time zone craziness: "If you celebrated New Year’s Eve on Kiritimati, went to bed, woke up, enjoyed your New Year’s Day, went to bed again, woke up a few minutes after midnight on the 2nd of January, and took a plane to Jarvis Island, you could arrive just in time to celebrate New Year’s Eve."

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Fell down the rabbit hole on this stuff a few years ago when I was considering adopting an “All the Time Zones” quest: 📺 I Found the Dumbest Time Zone In the end, I made a simple goal of visiting at least 24 Time Zones. With offsets, there are 38 total time zones, and I’m currently at 23 of 24.

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The view from home - #the100pics

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Made it to the new Arizona Wilderness Brewing “Miracle Mile” location today, an early happy hour with a buddy and Jen. Always good beer at Wilderness, and I like this “embossed” mural on the wall.

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Chris La Tray is feeling like a poet again (and also shares some poems from 2025’s Voices for the West compilation). "What I mean by “feeling like a poet” is the sense of awareness to the world beyond the task list. It means looking for and a... https://rsjon.es/2025/05/01/chris-la-tray-is-feeling/

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I updated my /now page.

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