LAKE VIEW, Iowa (KTIV) - An Eastern Iowa man has spent the last decade seeing Iowa in a way few others have: One county, and at least one mile on foot, at a time.

He made a recent stop in Western Iowa’s Sac County, marking off his latest county.

Most people run for exercise, but Tyler Sullivan of Iowa City runs for adventure, and he is on a mission to run at least one mile in every single county in Iowa. With 97 down, he’s almost at the finish line.

In 2015, during a drive to Mason City to visit his girlfriend, Sullivan said he realized he didn’t recognize many of the counties he passed through, sparking an idea to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties.

“I have ran through 1,298 towns. I actually might do number 1,299 after this interview,” he said.

He started driving to different counties

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