There are currently six US states I have not visited. Over the next week or so, I expect to cut that in half. Three of the six — Alaska, Hawaii, and North Dakota — are going to take a fair amount of planning and effort to reach, and I don’t know when, or even with any certainty, if that will happen. The others — Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine — are much closer to me as well as to each other, and I have just started a drive that should get me to the capitals of all three over the next several days. I have no meticulously prepared route or schedule, but I know roughly where I’m going and have a few stops in mind.
The journal for the trip is here. This entry is to let blog subscribers know of the trip and to provide a place for comments.
It’s a logical progression. First the Jefferson Highway, then the Jefferson Airplane, and finally the Jefferson Starship. The original Jefferson Highway Association was organized in November of 1915. The current 
Amtrak has a simple but incredibly effective way of avoiding scenes like this at its station in Cincinnati. Eastbound trains are scheduled to depart at 3:27 AM; Westbound at 1:23 AM. That’s AM as in “ante meridian”, as in “before midday”, as in “middle of the night”, as in “dark as a black cat in a coal mine”. That would seem to be sufficient discouragement, but just to be on the safe side, Amtrak frequently misses those times by sizable amounts. On rare occasions, they might even cancel a train a day or two before departure, as they did for me in