# How many states have you visited? (poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148 "2010-03-11T19:52:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/81 "2010-03-14T14:38:44Z")
> [@Perciful](#): > > I have been in 7 states so far. Ct, MA, ME, NH, VT, NY, KY. Only 43 more to go!I have never been out out of the North East except a trip to Hazard Kentucky. Don’t ask. I forgot Rhode Island, Thanks. We used to go swimming at Misquamicutt and catch the waves. I have been to 8 states. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/82 "2010-03-14T16:09:19Z")
All 57. Me and the President. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/83 "2010-03-14T16:41:06Z")
Pennsylvania Delaware New Jersey New York Connecticut Massachusetts Virginia Maryland South Carolina Georgia Florida Ohio Missouri Kansas Minnesota Illinois I think I might be missing a couple. It would be more than a couple more if driving through or riding a train (without setting foot down) or airports only counted. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/84 "2010-03-14T20:51:12Z")
**Lived in:** Illinois (Born) Missouri Texas **Visited:** Massachusetts New York New Jersey Delaware Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Minnesota Kansas Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Oklahoma Colorado New Mexico California Washington Idaho Passed through (stopping for gas, or maybe overnight on a long road trip): Connecticut Alabama Nebraska Iowa Montana South Dakota Wyoming Wisconsin ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/85 "2010-03-14T22:27:16Z")
All except: Alaska Maine ND SD Montana Idaho Oregon Iowa ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/86 "2010-03-14T23:13:01Z")
1. But Ms Hook and myself are heading off to Alaska this summer, so it’s soon to be 50. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/87 "2010-03-14T23:17:06Z")
48 for me, all but Alaska and Hawaii. My parents were big on travel vacations and we took one big one and several small ones every year. Then, I was a truck driver. That helped. Then, I drove cars for a living, delivering them all over the US. I got my last 3 of the lower 48, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, when I had to deliver a car to Boston from Kansas City. I took the northern route, stopped in Niagra Falls, then across NY state, through VT and NH, then over to Maine, and entered Boston from the north. I’m sure I’ll never make it to Alaska and Hawaii before I die, so I have to be content with my 48. I’ve also been to Canada, Mexico and England. ---
**Author:** ![Mllz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Mllz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mllz)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/88 "2010-03-15T15:17:46Z")
1. Missing AL, OK, SC. No excuse on South Carolina, since I go to NC a couple times a year–hopefully will take care of that soon. Those other two might be tough without another cross-country road trip upcoming, though… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/89 "2010-03-15T15:51:31Z")
Let’s see… 35 plus Washington, D.C. Grew up in eastern Ohio and was in Penna. all the time, and W.Va. a bit less, as a kid. Frequently vacationed then on the Outer Banks of N.C.; stopped in Va. often on those trips. Also went at least once each to California, Fla., La., Maine, Minn., N.Y. and N.J. on family trips when I was a boy, including great whitewater rafting trips in Ore. and Utah. Just after high school, went to the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mex., passing through Mo. (among other states mentioned elsewhere here) on the way. Visited Ariz., Conn., Colo. and R.I. in college. Had two internships in Washington, D.C., but I think I’d been in town before. Visited my future wife’s family in Vermont while in college, and since have been back just about every year. Went to Hawaii on a wonderful family trip right after college. Then traveled to Ga., Mass., Mich. and N.H. while working on the Dukakis campaign. Went to a seminar once in Dallas, Tex. Went to Alaska a few years back on a terrific Inside Passage cruise. Have been to Illinois, Indiana, Ky., Miss., S.C. and Tenn. on Lincoln- and Civil War-oriented field trips in the past decade or so. More recently, took a river cruise in Washington State. The Dakotas, most of the Plains states and some of the Deep South states are still on my list. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/90 "2010-03-15T18:42:46Z")
Now I want to put up a poll where you can select multiple entries, so people can mark \*which \*states they’ve been in - both since people seem to want to share that, and since I’m a statistics geek and want to see which states are the most and least visited. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/91 "2010-03-15T18:52:20Z")
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Hawaii, D.C., 35(+1) Incidentally, I think your qualification rule is stupid. You haven’t “been” to a state if you’ve driven through the entire thing from N-\>S, E-\>W if you didn’t stop for gas? But if you’re driving through a tiny sliver and you stop for gas, you’ve “been”? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/92 "2010-03-15T19:07:46Z")
> [@Electric\_Monk](#): > > 46 > > All except ND, SD, WY, MT. > > One of these days I gotta fly into Rapid City and drive around a little. What are you waiting for – that’s the best part of the US! Well, I don’t know about ND… 😉 I counted 26. I’m missing the Midwest and the Deep South. ---
**Author:** ![breaking-reality](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@breaking-reality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breaking-reality)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/93 "2010-03-15T21:54:37Z")
IL (born and raised) MO (lived there for a little over a year and live right on the border, so am there on a weekly basis) VT KY TN IA OK WI IN OH WV VA PA NY NJ FL AK WA ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/94 "2010-03-17T19:36:15Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > By the criteria of the OP, 14. > > California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. > > By my personal criteria, only 12. I don’t count Indiana and Ohio because I just spent the night at motels near I-80, during the course of various road trips between IL and NY. I really don’t feel I experienced anything characteristic about either state. Your other poll made me realize that I had forgotten Massachusetts. This is particularly embarrassing since I have family there and spent a couple of weeks with them on at least two separate occasions as a child. I also made an adult trip to Boston, and on another occasion, spent about an hour in Springfield (work-related) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/95 "2010-03-18T14:00:48Z")
All 50 baby! Wow, three running threads in which I can brag about it! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/96 "2010-03-18T15:31:08Z")
3: Arkansas and Missouri (I live close to the border) And Alabama for space camp in sixth grade for science club. If I cound drivethroughs: Kansas (went over the line in Kansas City to say we did it.), Tennessee and Mississippi on the way to Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/97 "2010-03-18T19:30:28Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > All 50 baby! Wow, three running threads in which I can brag about it! That reminds me: in late 2000, in the last days of Bill Clinton’s second term, some White House staffer did some counting and realized that the President had been to every state at least once… except Nebraska. A quick visit was organized, putatitively so that Clinton could congratulate Ben Nelson at a public rally for his election to the U.S. Senate. ---
**Author:** ![silvermist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silvermist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silvermist)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148/98 "2010-03-20T02:46:16Z")
Maine, NH, Vermont, Mass, Conn, NY [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-states-have-you-visited-poll/532148.md?page=4)