The 50 States – Updated December 2011
How many have you visited? Passing through a state doesn’t count for this list.
My total as of 18 Dec 2011: 25 states + Washington, D.C.
List of States
Alabama – fall 2005 to see the Gators vs. Alabama (Urban Meyer’s first year, the spread offense gets crushed, as do Tyrone Prothro’s lower leg bones)
Alaska
Arizona – spring 2008 for a conference in Phoenix
Arkansas
California – first couple times were to San Diego in 2007; later, L.A. in 2010
Colorado – visited friends in Boulder, spring 2010, with a side trip to Casa Bonita in Denver, which is a real Mexican restaurant, not something South Park invented
Connecticut
Delaware
(D.C.) – countless times, most recently spring 2010
Florida – home
Georgia – more trips to Atlanta than I can remember
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana – saw the Gators win the NCAA Final Four championship in Indianapolis in 2006; visited a friend to watch a Purdue football game in 2008
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana – New Orleans, most recently at Xmas 2008
Maine
Maryland - 4 years at Johns Hopkins
Massachusetts - went to a conference in Boston, fall 2010
Michigan – visited a friend at UM law school, fall 2011
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada – finally visited Las Vegas, summer 2011
New Hampshire
New Jersey - saw a lacrosse game at Princeton in 2005; visited friends in 2009
New Mexico - lived in Albuquerque for 5 months while doing an internship at Sandia National Lab
New York - practically grew up here when in the U.S.; saw Niagara Falls during high school; periodic trips to NYC as an adult
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio – went to IKEA store in Cincinnati, 2009
Oklahoma – visited a dear friend/mentor who lives near Tulsa
Oregon
Pennsylvania – first time was a certain infamous trip to Bethlehem, in 2004; visited Pittsburgh in 2009, got a job at Pitt in 2011
Rhode Island – saw a couple friends in Providence, 2006
South Carolina – academic team competition in high school
South Dakota
Tennessee – 5 years of grad school at Vanderbilt
Texas – born in Houston; visited Dallas in 2008 for my Jeopardy! audition
Utah
Vermont
Virginia - taught a SAT course in Fairfax, sophomore year of college
Washington - visited a friend in Seattle, spring 2010
West Virginia - visited a Hopkins classmate who attends WVU med school, Dec. 2011
Wisconsin
Wyoming
First, I love that map!!! Where can I get one? It would take me 50+ years to make one myself.
You seem very well traveled. I really need to visit more states. I would love to go to Helena, Montana and mine Sapphires. Thus far I’ve been to:
Connecticut, Deleware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey (Home State!), New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.
Many more still on the to-do list …
Hey! I found that map here…
http://jalopnik.com/360136/map-of-usa-made-of-states-license-plates
…apparently you can get it for just a bit less than $2,000!
Oh thanks. Maybe once I get a job again or come into some money I will buy one of my own.
Merci for sharing!