As a New Year's resolution, I want to see all 254 counties in Texas. I was jumping at the bit to get going, so I started before New Years and decided to first visit some of the furthest-away counties. I would visit each county's courthouse to prove I was in that county. I initially planned to visit all 26 counties of the Texas Panhandle over a weekend.
With a little route optimization courtesy of Mapquest, I made a plan to visit all these counties in the least amount of time.
I printed out a list and headed out.
I drove to Dalhart on a Friday night and then proceeded to visit all the counties on my list from dawn until dusk on Saturday. I repeated this on Sunday until I got to Childress County. I then made my way south and tried visiting as many counties as I could until I knew I needed to stop and get back to Austin.
Dallam County:
Sherman County:
Moore County:
Hartley County:
Oldham County:
Potter County:
Randall County:
Deaf Smith County:
Parmer County:
Castro County:
Swisher County:
Briscoe County:
Armstrong County:
Carson County:
Hutchinson County:
Hansford County:
Ochiltree County:
Lipscomb County:
Hemphill County:
Wheeler County:
Roberts County:
Gray County:
Donley County:
Hall County:
Collingsworth County:
Childress County:
Cottle County:
King County:
Stonewall County:
Fisher County:
Nolan County:
Coleman County:
Mills County:
When everything was said and done, I actually was able to visit 33 counties. That's 7 more than initially planned! I got to color in my map a bit more.
