The trip took me to all 50 states. It took me from the Caribbean to the other side of the international date line. It took me from north of this episode and think, oh, cool.

This guy, Andy McGee, traveled to all the really

big national parks in a year, like the Grand Canyon, you know, Great Smoky Mountains,

Yosemite, Yellowstone, you know, all those kinds of places in a whole year. You know,

that's pretty neat. But yeah, he did do that, but he also did a heck of a lot more than that

because he didn't only travel to the big national parks is what they're called.

He traveled to every location that is operated and maintained by the National Park Service.

This includes everything from national memorial sites,

national historical sites, recreation areas,

reserves, preserves, national parkways even.

I mean, the list goes on, national seashores,

rivers, scenic trails,

let's see, scenic rivers and riverways. And there's a,

there's like a miscellaneous category and everything from battlefields and just, just incredible

stuff, military bases that are, you know, historical markers now. So it really is a vast array of locations. And when you add them all

together, the National Park Service, which definitely is in charge of the National Parks, which is

probably their most famous part of their inventory, I guess you could say, there ends up being

over 400 of these places. When Andy did this trip back in say, there ends up being over 400 of these places.

When Andy did this trip back in 2019, there were 418 individual locations that he visited

in a matter of a year. Now there are 422 and still, you know, I don't know if he's going to

have to add those to his list, but he did

them all at the time in a calendar year, which is a hard task because it's all more than one a day.

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