I attempted to complete my attempt to find caches in all contiguous counties on my way to and from Oregon (from Tennessee). I only needed one county (in Oklahoma) on my usual route out west, so I had made tentative plans to cut north into Kansas to make progress on an alternate route. I was effectively prevented from doing this by strong storms in Kansas predicted for the day I was to arrive so I stayed to the south and found a few random caches on that route.
On the way back east, I only needed caches in Missouri counties. I found a few caches along the route before hitting Missouri. Somewhere along the vacation, I lost the list of counties in Missouri I needed to hit, so after I found caches in the northwest corner of Missouri, I simply tried to get as many counties along I-70 as I could. As you can tell by looking closely at the Missouri map, I only appear to have missed one county (near St. Louis). Pretty good considering I got there around the morning rush hour.
I added 10 counties to my list: 1 in Oklahoma to close my southern (east to west) route. 1 in Colorado, and 9 in Missouri to almost close my northern (west to east) route. If I get another chance to make this trip, I'll try to hunt more counties in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado to try and close that route.
