{"id":5730,"date":"2010-08-24T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2022-01-14T07:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:34:23","slug":"extreme-county-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/extreme-county-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"EXTREME County Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many of us are County Counters here on Twelve Mile Circle. I’m a practitioner myself and I’ve been known to go a couple hours out of my way<\/a> to pick up a few new ones. However, what would you say about a plan to visit every single county in New England within a 24-hour period?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Would you call this misguided? Insane? I call it genius, and about the coolest idea I’ve heard in a long time. I wish I was in a position to actually try something of this level of enlightenment and endurance. The guys at “Every Whatever<\/span>” — an intermittent blog that I love to follow [update: which no longer exists<\/em>] — not only considered the idea but hit the road and tried to achieve it. The expedition took them a couple of hours longer than their goal but they did reach every single county. It’s a great story and you can consult their website to review all the posts they created live from the road as the adventure unfolded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Movie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here’s something even more incredible: they mounted a dashboard camera in their car and took more than 12,000 still photos. They then compiled the photos chronologically into a a 20-minute video<\/span> so viewers can experience the same journey vicariously [again, sadly lost to history<\/em>]. I watched the trip at lightning speed as it progress throughout the day and into the night, then back into the sunlight as a new dawn rose on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n