[SunkenCiv]

[MIchaelTArchangel]

It takes 113 hours ONLY if you live at one end of the route of the other end of the route.

[Vigilanteman]

Considering that most people have to get back where they started, a longer but more circular route would be preferable.

[ctdonath2]

Someone have a a program to generate shortest route from given starting point?

[al_c]

I wouldn’t exactly call that “through” the 48.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[bgill]

One the way back, it’d be more fun to take in the quirky sights.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/location/

[PlateOfShrimp]

Yeah, but a REAL route through the US would include Tucson, Tucumcari, Tehachapi, and Tonopah.

[ThomasThomas]

Can you stop at Wally World on the way?

Portland, Oregon: World’s Smallest Park
Officially designated as a city park in 1948, all 452 square inches of it. Awarded Guinness recognition in 1971. - See more at: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6065#sthash.IaJinDFR.dpuf

I would go for a trip to the craziest roadside tourist attraction in each state.

But some states it would hard to choose just one.

You could spend a month on Route 66.

[Dr. Sivana]

Shortest. Not necessarily the fastest.

[pepsi_junkie]

I guess, if you consider touching the territory of a state at the border for a few minutes before turning into another one as driving “through” that state...

[Gay State Conservative]

Only 211 miles to South of the Border!

[cripplecreek]

When you’re in a big hurry to hit them all.

I figure I could vote in 4 states iffin I had a mind to. Possibly 5.

[morphing libertarian]

love this stuff. Driven cross country 9 times. Been to 49 states, so just 8 short. Oh, North Dakota.

[lacrew]

[eastforker]

All 48 states yet you see less than 30% of the country

[M Kehoe]

I gotta pee.

5.56mm

[Gideon7]

Are they sure it is optimal? The Travelling Salesman problem is well known in Computer Science because it is one of the simpler examples of an NP-hard computational problem.

The complexity increases exponentially, and when you throw in hundreds or thousands of possible roads, finding a truly optimal solution might take an awful lot of time.

[SamAdams76]

To me, this kind of short cut is not really driving through the 48 states. Maybe technically you can claim that you drove through 48 states when all you did was touch the border of most of them.

I suppose I could also rent a motel room in Denver and say I joined the Mile High club, but that wouldn’t be quite in the spirit.