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States You Haven't Been To

Johnny Dickshot Feb 21 2007 10:42 AM

Let's make a list: Me..\DOH 17 states: Michigan North Dakota South Dakota Minnestota Idaho Montana Washington Oregon Utah Nebraska Oklahoma New Mexico Arkansas Kansas Mississippi Alaska Hawaii

sharpie Feb 21 2007 11:03 AM

I've got 10. Need to take a trip through the deep south and the mountain northwest. Alabama Alaska Arkansas Georgia (though I have changed planes in the Atlanta airport) Idaho Michigan Mississippi North Dakota Montana Tennessee

Yancy Street Gang Feb 21 2007 11:18 AM

Mississippi Kansas North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Oregon Hawaii

sharpie Feb 21 2007 11:29 AM

Johnny, Yancy and I all need to go to North Dakota and Mississippi.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 21 2007 11:33 AM

I think of the ones I haven't been to, North Dakota and Kansas are the least likely. I've been very close to Kansas a few times, crossing the Texas/Arkansas border on I-30 and the Oklahoma/Missouri border on I-44.

sharpie Feb 21 2007 12:14 PM

It is hard to find a good excuse to go to North Dakota.

seawolf17 Feb 21 2007 01:54 PM

Never been west of the Mississippi, so cross off that whole section of country, except Louisiana. Eastern states I've missed: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Mississippi, and Alabama.

RealityChuck Feb 21 2007 02:18 PM

Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon, Washington. Though I've set foot in Illinois and Nevada, they were just short airport stopovers with total time less than two hours.

iramets Feb 21 2007 02:24 PM

I've been everywhere, man, I've been everywhere...

Yancy Street Gang Feb 21 2007 02:27 PM

Guam?

Farmer Ted Feb 21 2007 03:02 PM

12 to go: Alaska Hawaii Idaho Louisiana Maine Minnesota Montana New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota Wyoming

Centerfield Feb 21 2007 03:55 PM

I've been nowhere. 30 states yet to visit. If you count just driving through, and airports, it knocks a few off that list.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 21 2007 03:59 PM

Flight stopovers don't count, but driving through does, I think.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 21 2007 04:14 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Flight stopovers don't count, but driving through does, I think. I'd agree with that. Including "flight stopovers" wouldn't add to the 42 states I've visited, but my kids would have a few of those. For both of my children, they've changed planes in Nevada and Arizona without ever leaving the airport. My son, who did some traveling before his sister was born, has also changed planes in Georgia and Kentucky. My ten-year-old son has been in 28 states, and my five-year-old daughter has been in 24.

sharpie Feb 21 2007 04:25 PM

My 18-year-old (today!) daughter has been to 21 states; my 14-year-old son has been to 19.

sharpie Feb 21 2007 04:26 PM

Still no one has copped to setting foot in North Dakota.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 21 2007 04:32 PM

Well, I confessed to setting foot in New Jersey, and that's far worse.

KC Feb 21 2007 05:01 PM

Washington, Oregon, Nevada (I think I'm the only 44 year old alive to never have gone to Vegas), Arizona, Wyoming, No and So Dakota, Michigan, Wis- consin, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alaska, and Hawaii. Did this without a list, so it's subject to change. OE: wanted to see how I'd do without looking ... Add Idaho, Mississippi, Utah, Nebraska, Minnesota, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Montana. I need to get out more.

TransMonk Feb 21 2007 05:57 PM

I've been to North Dakota...a few times. I've spent time in all of the lower 48 states, only Alaska and Hawaii to go.

Nymr83 Feb 21 2007 06:14 PM

the shorter list would be states i HAVE been to: the original 13 colonies except for Georgia, as well as Vermont, Texas, Colorado (as a stopover to Texas only), Kentucky

Farmer Ted Feb 21 2007 07:47 PM

KC, you're taggin' along on my next Vegas trip. Prolly early Dec. if not sooner.

Gwreck Feb 21 2007 09:09 PM

Driving through doesn't count. You have to get out of the car, turn it off, sit down at a restaurant and spend money in the state for it to count. Anything else is not enough. Flight stopovers, of course, are also not fair. Maine West Virginia South Carolina Georgia Mississippi South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico Colorado Nevada Hawaii Alaska

Johnny Dickshot Feb 21 2007 09:12 PM

Yo G, the whole room needs to know what North Dakota's like. Start a thread!

Gwreck Feb 21 2007 10:09 PM

I'm hardly the expert (now, Iowa, or Wisconsin -- those states I could tell you about). North Dakota? It's a lot like Minnesota, except with fewer lakes. My only time there was part of a Seattle - New York road trip a few years back. I wound up driving the entirety of North Dakota. We spent some time in Bismarck, which is pretty much exactly what you'd think it would be - barely distinguishable from a half-dozen other places. It's not as pretty as Eastern Montana, and it doesn't have the Badlands like its southern neighbor. It's not like I actively dislike the place (like, say Indiana), but I'm not exactly planning a return visit.

Rockin' Doc Feb 21 2007 11:12 PM

39 states (and DC) down and 11 more states to go. I have yet to visit: Maine Vermont New Hampshire South Dakota North Dakota Montana Wyoming Idaho Utah Alaska Hawaii Alaska and Hawaii are the most likely to fall in the reasonably near future.

Nymr83 Feb 21 2007 11:50 PM

maine and vermont are really nice doc

Farmer Ted Feb 22 2007 12:45 PM

Anyone been to the 51st state...Puerto Rico?

Yancy Street Gang Feb 22 2007 12:51 PM

Yep. I was there twice, in 2002 and 2003.

Rockin' Doc Feb 22 2007 01:15 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 22 2007 11:54 PM

Nymr83 - "maine and vermont are really nice doc." So I've been told, 83. I eventually intend to get to all of the 50 states. It's just hard to find time to visit all of them right now. Since all of our families (parents, inlaws, and siblings) live in other states, we spend a great deal of our travel time trying to see family, which doesn't leave a great deal of time to travel to other areas just for fun.

sharpie Feb 22 2007 03:10 PM

Yes to Puerto Rico --- plus I've been to what was then the American Panama Canal Zone.