Best road trip route to visit the lower 48

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ius-computes-the-ultimate-american-road-trip/

Who needs an atlas when you have an algorithm? Data tinkerer Randy Olson, who previously developed the optimal search path for finding the bespectacled main character of the "Where’s Waldo?" books, has used this same algorithm to compute the ultimate American road trip.

At the urging of Tracy Staedter from Discovery News, Olson set out to find the quickest driving route that would stop at a national natural landmark, national historic site, national park or national monument in all of the lower 48 states. He also included Washington, D.C. and added another stop in California to get to a total of 50 stops.

But all of this begs the question: If you follow his suggested route for road-tripping the lower 48, will you, or will you not FIND WALDO???