2025 stickers

On the passenger-side slide-out, we have a large sticker with the Sinclair Trails logo, a map of the US showing the states we’re visited, a QR code for the website, and stickers with the SinclairTrails.com domain name and @SinclairTrails social handle:

The states sticker consists of separate stickers for each state, applied to a base sticker. Our rule is that we have to have done something in a state for it to count (e.g. camp, eat in a restaurant, or explore something, not just driving through). Once we have done something in a new state, we add its sticker. We’ve now visited all of the contiguous states, 48 out of 50; just Alaska and Hawaii to go:

These stickers tend to fade fairly quickly; here’s what they looked like a year ago, for comparison:

We may get new stickers that include Canada when we visit Alaska, since we’ll drive through part of Canada to get there.

On the driver-side slide-out of the coach, we have stickers for each of the National Parks we have visited, that being another of the goals in our travels. We visited 5 more parks in 2025 (plus revisited several), so have visited 52 of the 63 parks; just 11 left:

Of course, we’ve also visited numerous National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and other classifications. With 433 units of various types in the National Park System, not to mention parks administered by states, forest services, etc, we had to cap the memorializing of them somewhere! National Parks are the goal; others are gravy.

However, inside our coach we have a framed board with a wooden map of the US, around which we add stickers and pins for any kind of attraction we visit (we get stickers if available small enough, but tend to get pins instead). It’s populated a bit more since 2024, 2023, and 2022, though still some space for future attractions:

The wooden map has pins for states we’ve visited; the pins feature the state flags:

Fun memorabilia.