The Larshops have set sail. First stop? Freedom. No, really! We’re staying at a lovely Harvest Host farm in Freedom, ID.

Freedom actually gets its name from an old polygamous community, who settled on the Idaho/Wyoming border when Utah outlawed polygamy. The border town was no accident–if officials showed up from Idaho, folks would slip out the back and be in Wyoming, or vice versa.

So how will we tackle the lower 48 over the next year? Clockwise.

That’s the short answer anyway. From our first stop in Freedom (look it up, it’s a tiny town on the Idaho/Wyoming border), we’ll go on to America’s First National Park: Yellowstone. After meandering through parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa, we’ll rest up with Mama Larshops’ side of the family in Wisconsin. Pick up some additional midwestern states before turning our attention to New England in the fall, then start heading south along the Atlantic seaboard as the weather turns. Winter over in the deep South, ring in the new year in the Keys, and begin trekking west as the sun returns in the spring. We’ll be exploring the desert southwest in the spring, and work our way from Mexico to Canada along the west coast in April and May before spending a little time in British Columbia, Idaho and Montana before returning to our home in Salt Lake in time to celebrate our nation’s birthday on the 4th of July, 2021!

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