Some last thoughts about traveling, especially during pandemic times. First off: we went WAY too fast. Honestly, if I were to recommend this to anyone, plan on five years on the road and GO SLOW! Go to an area, spend a few weeks to a month there, explore around you, then move on. I did like that we tried to see as many national park sites as possible. We learned SO much and found hidden gems that we wouldn't have, if we had just been hitting the "big ones". It is so hard to understand how far apart things are or how big a state is when you are zig zagging your way across the U.S. It really made everything seem very far apart, geographically, because we were stopping and starting and driving all the backroads. There were places we didn't visit again, since we had done been there somewhat recently between 2016-2018, before we hit the road. Some of those places included Disneyland/L.A. and Washington D.C., especially all the Smithsonian museums. There were plenty of