Our Original Thirteen Colonies

This is NOT the thirteen original colonies that formed the United States of America. Not the union for which Betsy Ross may (or may not) have sewn the first US flag. But with our entry into Arkansas at Texarkana, we add the thirteenth state to our tour which aims to visit 49 of the 50 United States. No one is ruling out Hawaii at this point, but let's face it- it's a long and very wet drive! Texarkana is a border town, literally. We wondered if the postal employees suffered some form of governmental schizophrenia as they, literally, stand at the counter with one foot in Texas and one foot in Arkansas- just to mail out our post cards. You can check the "States Visited" map to see what our first thirteen were.
This is also the first leg of the portion of the trip that will follow Spring north as far as Pennsylvania, before veering west and then north with a summer end game of Alaska.