Quest for State Soils
Many months of planning and hundreds of dollars in gas later, I have collected a good handful of the US state soils (and soil from the only bit of a state I touched, not wanting to drive to Houston from the TX panhandle etc etc). My plan is to make or buy a shadow box for the whole US and put the soil in each with cataloged tags (recommendations welcomed).
The drive was beautiful and took me on routes and to locations I would have never thought of exploring, like the Black Hills in WY and Gloss Mountain State Park in OK. It was also painfully boring through most of OK and ND. Next time I head out west, I plan to take I-80 and nab the IA and NE soils to fill in that hole, and maybe one day I can make it out to the actual state soil sites in the states I didn't fully explore. The issue for all states come with HI and AK, but I'll figure that out somehow. Thought my fellow soil nerds would like this!