I think I need to slow down my travel for a while. Since January 2008 I’ve been to:
- By automobile (driving across borders):
- Once: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Nevada.
- Twice: North Carolina, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
- By Plane (landing at airports in the state/country):
- Once: Pennsylvania, New York, and Germany.
- Twice: Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico.
- Three times: California.
- Four+ times: North Carolina.
That’s 22 states, the District of Columbia, and two countries.
With the exception of Minnesota and Louisiana, the states listed were all repeat visits.
I’ve traveled to nearly half of the US states in the past 22 months. I’ve been to the following airports in that time: SFO, OAK, SJC, LAX, PHX, ABQ, DEN, DAL, HOU, MSP, LGA, PHL, IAD, GSO, RDU, and FRA. I’ve driven 19 mainline and 16 spur interstates in various parts of the country though I-40 is the only one I’ve driven nearly end to end (only missing the portion from Raleigh, NC to Wilmington, NC though I drove that in 2007).
If you’ve survived reading this far, is there anyone that would like to go with me to a state I’ve not yet visited? There’s only 7 of those left (ME, NH, VT, WI, ND, HI, and AK).
I need to generate an updated lists of places I’ve visited or not visited — but a quick glance at your list of unvisited states shows that we have ND, HI, and AK in common. The only other state I’ve not visited is Rhode Island.
Sadly, I’ve flown over all the other states on my list except Alaska and Hawaii.
I got Rhode Island when B and I went to Provincetown, MA in 2004 and we drove up. We had to go through Providence to get out on Cape Cod.
I’m contemplating seeing if Big D wants to take in the three northeastern states I’ve yet to visit. He used to live in Delaware, so has seen much of the region there, but that was for about 5 years when he was a teenager. Perhaps I take him to Provincetown before it gets completely de-fagged, and then we rent a car and drive into those other 3 states and take in Boston as well.
If I go to Hawaii, you’re welcome to come along.
I will go to Hawaii with you but we will have to drive there. Can’t they build a bridge? ed
(not my real e-mail but the only way that stupid picture won’t be published)
@Ed: You could always swim.