52

The Sage-Martinsons have no officially visited 52 different state parks.  This number does not count a few we went to before we became passport holders, as well as many many repeat trips to favorite parks. 52 official visits that have been documented by a stamp in the kids' park passports. In order to feel ok about the stamping, we have declared that we must eat a meal, sleep a night, or go on a hike or a swim in order to earn the stamp. It has been quite a journey.  I get a sense of the scope of our travels when I think that it would take us visiting a park every single weekend for an entire year to repeat this.  There are about 72 parks and counting- new ones keep getting created.  We have ambitious plans to hit the northwest corner this summer.  One state park is on an island, 20+ miles out into Lake of the Woods.  We will get there.  We've gone on the vast majority of these jaunts with our good pals the L-Gs.  I love the decade-long quest and hope it continues for at least a decade more.  We have told the kids that we will buy the RV down the road here a bit, as long as they promise to come home in the summers and drive the old foagies around to a park or two.