Category: States

My 50 State Goal is One Closer to Completion

39 down, 11 to go. One may wonder how I managed to visit a state since posting my states visited list yesterday, especially considering that I was at Il Vesco Vino and The Happy Gnome last night. The trick was to open my email this morning and read the following email:

You’ve been to Maryland. We were there when we went to DC and Gettysburg.

Thanks, Mom. I’m glad someone in the family has a memory. Now that my memory has been refreshed, I do, in fact, remember visiting Maryland. We passed through Chevy Chase where there were more Mercedes, BMW’s, and Jaguars than we had seen over the many miles traveled from St. Paul, MN in the family truckster.

I remember pondering in the back seat of our family truckster, “Chevy Chase – the actor – must be really rich for such a wealthy town to be named after him.” Fletch was an awesome movie, so this seemed plausible. To this day, I figure that’s the case, but Wikipedia has their own version of the truth.

So, does anyone remember being in any of the remaining 11 states on my list? Here they are:

NM, TX, OK, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC, DE, MD, and RI.

States I’ve Visited

I found a fun little tool over at Top Five and Then Some via Jackalope Ranch that maps out the states I’ve visited. Oddly, one state that stands out is Jackalope’s controversial home-state of Texas:

I’ve been to Texas many times if you count airport layovers in Dallas and Houston, but I don’t play like that. However, I this did make me realize that I have not set a concrete definition of what it means to visit a state. Feedback welcome.

For those counting, the 12 I’m missing are, NM, TX, OK, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC, DE, MD, and RI.

Just how I should go about knocking off the last 12 is yet to be determined. Maybe a bike tour from New Orleans to Hilton Head to take out the Southeast? Hiking trip in Taos? A visit to the Crawford Ranch? What are the must-see things in my unseen states?