How many states have you visited? (poll)

In My Humble Opinion
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My usual method is that you have to eaten a meal there, not at an airport. Doesn’t make any difference.

I’ve been to every state East of the Mississippi but Michigan. I’ve never even been to an airport there.

Out west I’ve missed Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Alaska, and Hawaii.

So, 41.

I’ve lived in (maintained a dwelling for more than month) Minnesota, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.

I’ve got very little memory of Oklahoma or the Carolinas, they barely count. The last state added to my list was Vermont.

62

California: Born & raised in San Francisco (spent an hour in TJ once, too)
Nevada: Reno & Las Vegas
Arizona: Walked across the Hoover Dam (going to spring training next weekend, too)
Washington: Seattle
Illinois: Chicago
New York: NYC (stepped out of the airport in Newark, too, but directly to the Manhattan train)
Massachusetts: Boston & suburbs

We’re in… Delaware.

63

Total of 35 so far. In approximate chronological order, they are:

Birth – 5 Years Old:
Texas, Oklahoma, California

12 Years Old:
Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee

13 Years Old:
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia

14 Years Old:
Indiana, Illinois

15 Years Old:
Wisconsin

17 Years Old:
Minnesota, Missouri

20 Years Old:
Washington (State)

22 Years Old:
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida

23 Years Old:
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina

27 Years Old:
Colorado

As you can see, I saw a lot of the U.S. when I was younger, because my stepfather was in the Army and we moved frequently. Also, my grandparents took me on one of their bus trips when I was 13 years old, so I saw the northeastern U.S. for the first time then. I apparently haven’t been in a new state for over a decade, now, though!

I have been in an airport in Michigan and possibly Ohio, but didn’t count them.

P.S. Interestingly, I’ve never set foot in the state of Alaska, but I did spend a month or so on the pack ice 50-100 miles north of Alaska, which not many people can say.

64

By my criteria, 30; by the OP’s, 29. The east coast from Maine to Florida, the northern half of the country except the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, plus California. The one of the 30 that doesn’t count by the OP’s criteria is Utah. I drove through a corner of it on my way from Wyoming to Idaho but I don’t recall stopping anywhere.

65

29+ DC They are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin

66

28 + 3 airports:

Every state that is east of the Mississippi AND south of the Great Lakes, minus South Carolina, plus MN, IA, MO, AR, LA, NE, KA, OK, and CA.

And DC, Puerto Rico and the USVI, but those weren’t options.

67

Looks like eleven for me:

California (birth state, lived there most of my life)
Oregon (currently reside)
Washington (lived there)
Alaska
Hawaii
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
Colorado
Texas
Virginia

I’m not sure Virginia should really count. In junior high school I went on a three-day field trip to DC, and we left the city for a few hours to visit Mount Vernon. Oh, and the ride to and from Dulles.

68

21 using the feet on the ground rule and meaning it as more than car to service station restroom and back again.

25 otherwise.

69

Confusion, Denial, Ecstasy, Repulsion…

NY, PA, OH, WV, VA, MD, DC, NC, SC, FL, MS, LA, MO, IL, IA, KS, AR, CA.

70

States I haven’t visited:

Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota.

Of those, Alaska’s the only one I really want to visit. I’m definitely not going to visit the others just to say I’ve been to all 50.

71

Only missing Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, and West Virginia. I got Nebraska and Wyoming on our trip East in 2008. I got a bunch traveling for work - living on the East Coast for a time helps also.

I’ve spent at least one night in all the ones I’ve visited except Minnesota and maybe Iowa (I went through that on the train, and I may or may not have been sleeping at the time.)

72
  1. I been in every state East of the Mississippi river.

States I have been West of the Mississippi River.

Washington
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri (Where I live now)
Nevada
Colorado
Arizona (barely crossed over Hoover Dam)
California (barely at Lake Tahoe)
Oklahoma
ETA I didn’t count Minnesota, as I was only in an airport there.

73

This Kanukistani has visited 35 states and Washington, D.C.

I have not made it to Alaska or Hawaii yet (too far, but I’d love to go to either), or Washington or Oregon (came close a few times, but the wild water paddling Idaho was too good to pass by), or the south-east (too many bubbas for me to feel comfortable).

74

36, plus DC. I’m missing most of the flyover country, and Alaska and Hawaii.

75

I’m the only “49.” Some day I’ll make a special trip to Oklahoma and finish the circuit.

76

During the summer, of course. :wink:
I am counting Alaska, despite the fact that I only hit land maybe 12 hours a month.
But I spent a year on the water, so damnit, that’s gonna count!

I screwed up the poll, and didn’t count DC.
16, including DC.
I am not counting anyplace I didn’t spend at least a month in, though.
I’ve driven through a lot more than that. :stuck_out_tongue:

77

I’ve been in every state on the East Coast–from Maine to Florida.

Add to that PA, LA, IL, CA and HI.

Sorry. I don’t feel like counting. Or looking at a map.

78

23 plus DC. Still to be visited: Hawaii & Alaska, the Great Plains and Pacific Northwest, the Heartland, New England and the Deep South.

(In postal terms, I’ve been to PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, OH, IN, IL, MI, TN, KY, MO, OK, TX, AZ, NM, & CA)

79

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.

80

You’ve lived in New England all your life, but never been to Rhode Island?