This Couple Drove A Dodge 540,000 Miles to Every County in the Lower 48

Two people that have, however, are Jon and Jennifer Riehl, a couple with an appetite for road trips and a love for their forest green 1999 Dodge Intrepid — the car that they drove through their final unvisited county in the continental United States last week, with 540,000 miles on the clock. Jon, 31, an engineering instructor at Michigan Tech University, bought the car in 2002 for $9,000 when he was a senior in high school. Finishing off Alaska and making the trip to Hawaii is sure to be a logistical nightmare, but Jon has been plotting out various cost-effective solutions to make it happen: “I’m into collecting things, and I’m kind of stubborn” he says. Jennifer Riehl, 32, was the same way, so when the couple met in 2005, their collective desire to travel occurred organically.