As a published author who has written seven books on the history of the Catskill and Adirondacks fire towers and lore and NY, CT, & RI Civilian Conservation Corps camps, Podskoch decided to write a book about all 102 Adirondack towns The Adirondack 102 Club based on the “Vermont 251 Club formed in the 1950s. Professor Arthur W. Peach wrote an article in a Vermont magazine in 1954 where he encouraged people to “take the road less traveled and get to know all of Vermont.”Calling the book the “Adirondack 102 Club,” Podskoch included a space for journaling and a place where readers could get it stamped, stickered or signed from a business or location indicating they had been at a particular town. “The whole thing is to make sure people visit and talk to people and not just drive through,” he said. The reward for visiting all 102 towns was the “Vagabond” patch. By 2015, five people had received their “Vagabond” patch during a dinner organized by ladies from the Brant Lake area who liked the idea of the club. Podskoch replicated his idea of traveling to every town, city and village with the Connecticut 169 Club. Podskoch recruited writers, historians, and officials from each town and asked them to write a short description about their town’s history, interesting places to visit, and good places to eat.The reward for visiting all 169 CT towns, cities and villages is a “Leatherman” patch which commemorates this legendary vagabond, who during the late 1800s wore leather clothes and travelled a 365-mile circuit in approx. 34 days between the Hudson and Connecticut Rivers while camping out in caves.After Podskoch finished and published his Rhode Island CCC Camps Book in December 2020, he began searching for volunteer writers in Rhode Island to write about their town’s history and interesting places to visit. He was able to gather 45 writers in all walks of life: librarians, historians, historical society members, free-lance writers, public officials, college professors, town citizens, and Chamber of Commerce officers. Four months later all the stories and photos were sent to the graphic artist to be printed.