State map

[solipsistnation]

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

A lengthy train trip when I was 15 covered a lot of those. We headed north from Oregon, turned right in Seattle, and made our way to Chicago. We headed back southward, after spending a week in Washington DC. We cruised the Mississippi on the [Bad username or site: http://www.juliabelle.com/ @ livejournal.com]Julia Belle Swain, and then headed back toward the west coast, pausing in Sacramento for two days before returning home.

That meant I've spent quite at least a few hours in almost every state, and more in most of them.

Comments

[qedrakmar.livejournal.com]

I notice no-one has ever been to Wyoming. This further proves my theory that Wyoming is a cover-up for a hole in the universe.

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[barbica.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't been there myself, but I believe it does exist because my sister spent 4 years theregoing to college (U. of Wyoming). This led us to often ask her "Why Wyoming?????"

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[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

I've been to Wyoming, I just haven't posted my version of the map. Anyway, your theory isn't far off.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The only time i've driven through Wyoming was when i was driving on I-80 from California to Colorado. I enjoyed seeing the "liquor & fireworks" shacks on the side of the highway. Nothin' like mixin' booze and pyrotechnics!

[zotz]

What is it that you're avoiding in the middle? You're giving it a fairly wide berth, so it must be pretty scary.

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[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Nebraska is a place of sheer and undiluted existential despair. It's best to keep as far from it as possible.

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[beckyjen.livejournal.com]

having driven there a few weeks ago and having my license plate disintegrate purely from being in the state (ok so the torrential downpour might have had something to do with it), I'd have to agree with you on that.

[kateelizabee.livejournal.com]

The trouble with Michigan and Florida is that they're both peninsulas, so most of the time they have to be your destination in order for you to visit. Unless they make long distance hydroplane cars, that'd be cool.

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Of course you meant feature of Michigan which has two penninsulas. This makes it twice as good as Florida, which is, after all, largely special effects and swamp. It also keeps out the riff raff. :-)

On the other hand, Michigan would be on more direct paths if Congress didn't make them give Toledo back to become a state. (Not sure if that would have been worth it, though.)

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[kateelizabee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I live in the LP, and my great grandparents came to the Finnish Mecca that is the UP when they came to the US.

Yeah, but IIRC, we got the UP in exchange for Toledo.

Oh, we have plenty of riff raff here =)

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[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

I know--some of them are related to me. :-) (Mixed bag of Eastern Europeans that came over to work in the factories two generations ago.)

Haven't been through the UP lengthwise in some time. Gorgeous country.