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Jeremy Hastings of Texas is a member of The Extra Miler Club, a non-profit organization with membership open to anyone having specific travel goals. The primary purpose of the club, which has a quarterly publication titled The Extra Miler, is to encourage members to visit every county (and equivalent jurisdiction) in all 50 states of the U.S.A. He was recently in Daniels County looking over the courthouse in Scobey on a Saturday when local resident Phyllis Kaul struck up a conversation with him leading to this photo. There are 3,141 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 States and District of Columbia. Here’s an excerpt written by Hastings that appeared in a 2019 edition of The Extra Miler: “The county adventures for 2019 featured two state completions and a hodgepodge of singular counties collected on work trips. The main event was a Labor Day sojourn through New...