Red indicates the counties I’ve been in, blue the counties (city, in the case of Baltimore) I’ve lived in. I finally knocked off Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska on a recent road trip. I do admit I went out of my way to hit Nebraska (#49) but it was only a 90 minute detour. It took 67 years of travel to achieve this (I only started trying to achieve it about 9 years ago, when I realized I’d already visited over 40 states).
I also hit 13 boroughs in Alaska.
I estimate I’ve spent the night in 41 states.
As for other bits of North America, I’ve also visited Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. That doesn’t make up for missing Hawaii so far, but I think it should count for something!
Add to that British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Yukon Territory. Plus Sinaloa and Baja Cali Sur in Mexico, and Guanacaste, Costa Rica. And the islands of Sint Maarten/St. Martin, and St. Kitts. Plus Curacao, but that’s considered a part of the South American tectonic plate, my only visit to any SA area.
How many states have you visited? No counting flying over, or just changing planes in an airport, unless you had to spend the night!
Impressive! Was it some sort of quest, or did it just happen? Mine was just happening naturally as I passed 40 states, then it became a quest, with special detours to hit Kansas and Nebraska.
Same for me - I’ve been to every state except Hawaii.
I’ve actually spent a couple of months in Alaska. Been to a few states only once, such as North Dakota. Spent most of a week in South Dakota, though, which was… sufficient.
I found this neat clickable map that helped me figure out that I have been to at least 39 states.
The following link shows the states I’ve visited or at least driven through. I’ve changed planes In Michigan and Ohio, but I don’t think I’ve ever been there otherwise, so I didn’t include them in my tally.
ETA: I’ve also been to D.C., Puerto Rico, and the USVI.
Heh. Was visiting my mother (divorced, I was living with my father at the time) in New York City when the air traffic controllers hit in the summer of 1981. Thirteen years-old me was put on a Greyhound bus (eventually multiple) to travel from NYC to Oakland, CA. Quite the trek on my own at age 13. It’s the only time I’ve seen pronghorn antelope in the wild - if I’m remembering correctly it was while stopped after an accident on the Great Plains (bus was lightly side-swiped by a semi-truck, cracking all the windows on one side of the bus).
Not counting airport transfers, I think I’ve been in or through 29 or 30 states or thereabouts. There are a couple of more I wouldn’t mine hitting, but I don’t feel compelled to make them all. Too many places I’ve been that I’d like to go back to see a second or even fifth time and there is only so much time in life .
The only state I made a conscious effort to hit was Arkansas. I was in Memphis TN, and thought “it’s over that bridge.” So I drove over and spent a little time on that side of the river.
Other than that, a bunch of road trips when younger, and moving around a lot as a young adult.
I’ve been to 42 states, plus DC. The ones I still haven’t visited are:
Idaho
Iowa
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada (been in the airport, though)
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Of the ones I have left, New Mexico sounds like the most interesting, although I would kind of like to do a Chicago-to-west-coast Amtrak trip sometime, which would let me knock off a few more.
From my map you may note I’ve driven across the bottom of eastern Montana and I’ve driven along the top of eastern Montana. I really hope to never do that again. Though it was nice doing 90 on US Highway 2. Miles and miles of flat, straight nothing and nobody.
I also hope I don’t have to cross North or South Dakota again. Though it was more relaxing driving that than it was driving from Port Angeles WA to east of Seattle.
Southwest and Northwest Montana are beautiful though. Yellowstone and Glacier Parks. Agree that Eastern Montana doesn’t have much going for it, but we have one daughter who loves it there.
Oh, Glacier was glorious. We were there about 3 weeks ago, for the first time. We considered doing Yellowstone too, but decided we lacked the time to really explore it. We’ll go back and spend a week there, perhaps next year. We also hit Roosevelt NP in NDak, which was really quite beautiful, and Devil’s Tower NM, WY.
Heh, my tally of foreign countries is really quite pathetic: Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France (courtesy of St. Martin in the Caribbean), and St. Kitts. Grand total of 8.
The only states I’m missing are Florida, Mississippi and Hawai’i. I’ve just retired, so I’ll probably put together a quick jaunt to Biloxi in the next year or so. I can use hotel points at one of the casinos, and motor over to Florida for a meal to check two of the three off the list. When my SO retires (soon) we can bang out Hawai’i and complete my list.
All but 12. Most of that is in the NE though I’ve spent time in NY.
I did get to Hawaii. My wife worked in Alaska for awhile. She drove there in ~1989 in a Chevy Sprint. Actually, it was a pretty darn good little car, made it to Alaska and back anyway.
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