5500 Miles, 17 States, 9 Days, 1 Epic Adventure (WORK IN PROGRESS!) Preface: Late in 2011 the idea of an epic road trip began to bounce around between Sarah and I. After some loose planning and thought we came up with the idea to drive through every state north and west of Texas while hitting several of our "Life List" destinations in the process. We didn't want to plan everything out to the last detail so that we could leave ourselves open to opportunities along the way but we did plot each of our desired stops on a map to establish a route that would help us reach each of them while also passing...