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Title: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Duke87 on January 17, 2014, 08:23:52 PM
I also included Canada for the sake of completeness.

1987: NY
1988: NJ, DE, MD, DC
1989: FL
1990: CT
1991:
1992:
1993: PA
1994:
1995: RI
1996:
1997:
1998: MA
1999:
2000:
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004: OH
2005: VA, NH, ME
2006: CO, VT
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010: WV
2011: ON, QC, IN, KY, NC, SC, GA, AL, TN
2012: IL, MO, KS, UT, AZ, NV, CA, NM, TX, OK, AR, LA, MS, MI
2013:


NC moves from 2011 to 1995 if you count visiting an airport only, and VA moves from 2005 to 2001 if you count driving through without putting your feet on the ground.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: sammi on January 17, 2014, 09:14:48 PM
Since when does Canada have states? :spin:

2000: CA, FL, NY, NJ. MI and TN if you count my layovers at DTW and MEM.
2001 - 2009: N/A
2010: ON, QC
2011: N/A
2012: N/A
2013: IL, IN, MI
2014: Planned: OH, PA
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Brandon on January 17, 2014, 09:15:53 PM
1977: MI, IN, IL, OH, WI, MN, SD, WY, ID, MT, NE, IA, CO, UT, NM, TX, OK, LA
1978: MS, AL, GA
1979: TN, KY
1980: AR, MO
1984: AZ
1985: FL, SC, NC
1986: ON, NY, MA, VT, NH
1992: WV, PA, MD, DC, VA
2003: NV, CA
2007: HI
2009: KS

States/provinces/territories I have not been to yet: AK, OR, WS, ND, ME, DE, NJ, CT, RI, QC, PEI, NS, NB, NF, MB, NWT, NU, YT, BC, AB, SK, PR, GU, NMI, USVI

Ones I hope to get in 2014: DE, NJ, CT, RI

Ed: Modified as I went to some states earlier than I originally thought.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: KEVIN_224 on January 17, 2014, 09:29:47 PM
I was born in Connecticut in 1971. Since that time?

1974: MA/NH/ME (Moved to Wells, ME when I was three years old)
1983: NY (not 100% sure)
1984: RI (not 100% sure)
1989: NJ/DE/MD/VA and DC (Peter Pan escorted tour to Washington DC with a VA hotel room)
1990: VT (October 13th, entered via US 7 in Pownal)
1991: PA (March 16th, entered via Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia)
2009: IL/FL (Chicago-Midway and Tampa, respectively, with separate plane trips)
2010: IN/OH/NC/TN (IN via Chicago on an NICTD train to Hammond, others on separate plane trips. Even without Hammond, I ended up in Indianapolis on a different plane trip from Chicago about 4 weeks later.)

Next state I want to add? Georgia. My next closest new state would be West Virginia.

As for the other posts, I don't count it if I fly over a given state. I've been over Michigan on a return flight from Chicago-Midway to Bradley Int'l north of Hartford. I do count Florida on my 2010 state count since I was inside of Orlando's airport (MCO) for a plane change. That happened twice. I was also stopped there with one other trip.

My brother has been in the same 18 states (and DC) that I've been in. My brother has also been in WV (1998) and WI (2005). Briefly, he has also been in QC (1997) and ON (2000).
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: sammi on January 17, 2014, 09:31:43 PM
Quote from: Brandon on January 17, 2014, 09:15:53 PM
PEI ... NF ... NWT
Minor nitpick... These should be PE, NL (for Newfoundland and Labrador), NT.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: corco on January 17, 2014, 09:41:51 PM
1988: Ohio
1989: Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee
1990: Nevada, California
1991: Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin
1993: Florida
1994: Hawaii, Alabama
1995: Maryland, South Carolina
1997: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho
1998: Oregon
1999: Washington
2000: Massachusetts, New Hampshire
2001: Missouri, South Dakota, Montana
2002: British Columbia
2004: Arizona
2007: Utah, Colorado, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Ontario, Quebec
2010: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
2011: Louisiana, Arkansas
2013: North Dakota, Alberta, Saskatchewan

Hoping to add MN, CT, RI, NJ, NB this year.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: 1995hoo on January 17, 2014, 09:53:24 PM
1973: Texas, New York
1974: Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia
Unknown, but likely 1974 or 1975: District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey
1977: North Carolina
Unknown, but likely 1979 or 1980: West Virginia and Connecticut
1981: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick, Rhode Island
1982: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
1984: Ontario, Quebec, Vermont
1985: Pennsylvania
1987: Ohio, Michigan
1988: Colorado
1989: Prince Edward Island
1991: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (not all on the same trip, either)
1997: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
1998: Illinois
1999: Minnesota
2003: Hawaii
2004: Idaho
2005: Alaska, British Columbia (I don't count Utah–15-minute airport connection)
2007: Wyoming
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: oscar on January 17, 2014, 10:19:55 PM
I don't remember that level of detail.   What I do recall:

last state visited:  Hawaii (1999)
second-to-last:  Alaska (1994)
third-to-last:  probably North Dakota (1994, on my way to Alaska), but since my father's family lives in the northeastern corner of South Dakota, and we lived for a few years in Fergus Falls MN when I was a little kid, odds are we cut through ND at one point or another

first:  North Carolina (1956), assuming being born there counts as a "visit".  That was followed by moves to Minnesota, Virginia, back to North Carolina, California, Connecticut, and back to Virginia, with lots of hard-to-track visits in between (particularly the first four moves, where we had to drive through a bunch of states but I was too young to remember which ones), plus a 1957 trip to be shown off to my Italian grandparents, which probably included an airport connection in New York but I don't know for sure it was there.

For Canada, first one might've been New Brunswick in 1989, on my way to PEI and Nova Scotia (in that order), though that might've been preceded by visits to Ontario and/or Quebec.  1994 was a rapid-fire sequence of visits to Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon, on my way to Alaska.  First visit to Newfoundland in 2003; Manitoba, 2008; and Northwest Territories, 2012.  I haven't been to Nunavut Territory.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: bassoon1986 on January 17, 2014, 10:29:22 PM
1986: LA, TX
1990: AR, MO
1996: OK, MS
1997: TN, IL, KY
1999: OH, VA, DC
2000: NM, CO, AL, FL, GA
2006: VT
2007: KS
2008: WV
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Eth on January 17, 2014, 10:36:25 PM
1987: Georgia
1992 or '93 (can't remember which): Alabama, Florida
199x (really not a clue which year, but definitely before 2000): Tennessee
1997: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio
2006: District of Columbia
2007: Maryland
2008: Delaware, New Jersey
2010: New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, California (and airport connections in Texas and Colorado)
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Laura on January 17, 2014, 10:48:34 PM
1987: Born in Maryland
Unsure - best guess between 1987-90: PA, DE, DC, WV, VA
1993: FL (Disney World for 1st time)
1996: NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA (trip to Boston)
1997: NC, SC, GA, AL (trip to Florida via Alabama)
2001: ON (Niagara Falls)
2007: QC (Mont Tremblant); TN, KY (Mammoth Cave)
2008: CA, AZ, IN (trip to Inland Empire, CA - AZ and IN were airport layovers); OH (Columbus - Quarter Horse Congress)
2010: VT, NH (after the Springfield, MA meet)
2013: ME (Portsmouth, NH meet)

Outside of North America
2005: Vietnam (with layovers in South Korea)
2007: Turkey, Greece, Italy (with layovers in England)


iPhone
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: vdeane on January 17, 2014, 10:57:10 PM
1991: New York (duh), California (only time I've been there, remember nothing, don't usually count it but whatever)
Early 90s: Ontario
2004: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
2009: Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
2011: Connecticut, New Jersey
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: hbelkins on January 17, 2014, 11:05:01 PM
Can't remember when I first visited OH, WV, VA, IN or TN because I would have been a youngster in my single digits, but I'm sure those first visits were prior to 1968. I do remember going to Ohio up I-75 in a driving rainstorm in the back seat of my dad's 1957 Chevy. Guessing a lot here as to years in my youth...

1961: KY
1968(?): NC
1974(?): GA, FL, SC
1982: MD, DC
1985(?): IL
1991: DE, NJ, MO, KS, CO, UT, NM, AZ, NV, ID, WY, SD, IA, NE
1995: AR
2004: PA
2006: AL, MS, MI
2007: NY
2008: LA
2009: CT, OK, MA, VT, NH, ME, RI
2010: TX, WI, MN
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Buck87 on January 18, 2014, 12:11:20 AM

1987: OH
1988: KY, TN, AR, LA, TX, PA
1990: IN, MI
1992: IL, IA, NE, SD, WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, NV, UT, CO, KS, MO
199X: WV (somewhere in the early 90's)
1997: NY, ON
1998: AL, GA, FL, SC, NC, VA
1999: MS, NM, AZ, CA, OK
2000: MD, DE, DC
2001: QC, VT, NH, ME, MA, RI, CT, NJ
2002: WI, MN, ND
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: DandyDan on January 18, 2014, 03:31:37 AM
I was born in Minnesota in 1972.

I am too young to remember anything from 1972-1977, but somewhere in there, I presumably visited Wisconsin and Illinois in 1973 (because my grandparents lived in Illinois).  I also visited North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and, South Dakota for the first time in 1973, but I was too young to remember, but I do remember all of those in 1978.

I have no idea exactly when my first trip to Iowa was.  3 different uncles and aunts live or used to live less than 10 miles north of Minnesota-Iowa border, but there wasn't a reason to ever go to Iowa and my parents are not the type to just go to Iowa just to say we were in Iowa, probably because they had already been there, and my dad had lived there for a time.  The first time I definitively remember being in Iowa was about 1982, because that was the year my dad decided we should go back from my grandparent's in Illinois via Iowa, plus that was the year we went to the IA/MN/SD tripoint, which somehow isn't in the Big Sioux River.

Anyway, the rest of the list:
1996-Nebraska (the year I moved here) and Missouri
1997-Kansas
1999-Indiana (fairly amazing being I used to live in the Chicago area and that I never went to Indiana while living there)
2001-Virginia, DC, Maryland
2002-Ohio, Michigan
2003-Kentucky, Tennessee
2009-Texas, New Mexico, Arizona

I have no idea what my next state will be.  My friend wants it to be California, but I want to make the trek to Colorado some time.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: maplestar on January 18, 2014, 08:49:20 AM
I seem to have good enough records to be sure about almost all of the list. The only question is when I first visited QC, because we lived close to the ON-QC border and my mother's aunt lived there about an hour from where we lived, so my first visit is younger than I remember.

1976: ON, QC (presumably)
1977-93:
1994: AB
1995:
1996: NY
1997-2004:
2005: NS
2006:
2007: DC, MD, NC, PA, VA, WV [Airport only: IL, NJ, OH]
2008: DE, FL, GA, SC
2009: MI, OH* (previously airport only)
2010: NJ* (previously airport only)
2011-13:

Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: pianocello on January 18, 2014, 12:02:20 PM
1996: IN (I presumably visited family in MI and IL by the end of that year)
1998: KY, TN, GA, FL
2000: IA
2009 (I think): OH, PA, MD, VA, DC
2010: MO, MS, LA
2011: WI
2012: WV, NC
2013: TX, OK
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: algorerhythms on January 18, 2014, 01:16:27 PM
1985: MD
1986 (guessing): PA, WV
1992: DC, VA
1994: NY, ON
1998 (guessing): KY
2003: NJ
2006: DE, OH, IN, IL, MO, OK, TX
2007: TN, AR
2009: AL (airport only), NC (airport only)
2010: SP (Brazil), PE (Brazil)
2011: GA
2012: UT (airport only), CA
2013: QC
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: JMoses24 on January 18, 2014, 01:54:02 PM
1985: OH
Somewhere between 1987 and 1992: IN
1992: KY
1996: TN
1998: GA, FL
2002: NC, SC, WV, VA, MD, PA, NY, NJ, DC and Ontario, Canada (Not all in the same trip, actually was back-to-back...literally came home from a South Carolina church trip, and was off the next day for a northeast family vacation)
Sometime between 2006 and 2010: MO, IL
2012: CA
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: signalman on January 18, 2014, 02:04:07 PM
1980: NJ, state I was born in
1981 or 1982: NY and PA
1985: DE
1986: CT, RI, MA
1987: VT and NH
1988: MD, VA, WV
1993: NC, SC, GA, FL
1996: OH, IN, IL, IA, NE, WY, MT, SD
1998: KY, MO, TN
2005: NV, AZ
2012: ME
2013: LA
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: DaBigE on January 18, 2014, 02:11:10 PM
1984: born in WI
'84-89: IL, IN, MI (don't remember much of those years)
1993: MN, IA, SD
1998: OH, PA, WV, VA, MD, D.C., CA
2009: AZ

Still a lot of the great US of A yet to see...
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: mrose on January 18, 2014, 02:24:20 PM
I like this one.

1977: NE (born)
1978: CO
1981: KS, OK, TX
1984: IA, IL, WI
1985: MO, MI
1987: IN, KY, VA, DC, MD, PA, OH
1991: TN, NC, SC
1992: FL, SD, MN
1994: GA
1998: AZ, NV, CA
2005: HI

Been awhile now since I've added one. Wyoming or New Mexico are probably the two best candidates now.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: sammi on January 18, 2014, 03:15:16 PM
Adding the Philippines. Unofficial abbreviations from here (http://www.tvphilippines.tv/pinoy-exchange/43-philippines-island-life-and-abroad/226-2-letter-philippine-provincial-code-province-ph).

1997: MM, BU, PA, TA, PG, LU, BG
2004: NE
2007: IS, IN
2009: CA, LA, BT, ZS
2010: AL

I was born in Manila, and when I went home to my grandparents for the first time we took: MM, BU, PA, TA, PG, LU, BG. You'll see the same provinces in reverse order in the 'most recent' thread when I went back to Manila for the last time before flying out of the country.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: FreewayDan on January 18, 2014, 04:16:48 PM
1980: CA
1984: AZ, NV
1989: NM, TX
1992: LA
2010: IL, WI
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Charles2 on January 18, 2014, 04:59:40 PM
Born in AL in 1960

1960: AL, FL
1961: MS, TN
1964: AR, TX, OK, KS, CO, NM
1965: KY, NC, VA
1971: MO
1974: SC
1976: OH, WV, PA, NY, MD, LA
1978: IN
1981: IL
1990: MI
1991: DE, NJ
1993: IA
1994: VT, NH, MA, CT
2002: NE
2004: NV
2008: WI
2012: SD, MN
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on January 18, 2014, 05:06:56 PM
I haven't visited any states yet. So I go with countries:

1993: Born in Spain
1995: France (Just barely, didn't entered for good until around 2005)
Sometime around 2003: Andorra
2009: Portugal
2010: Italy

Edit: Spain, region by region:
1993: Born in Aragon. Catalonia.
1994: Valencian Community
1995: Navarre
1998: Canary Islands
Around 2003: Castile and León
2004: Basque Country, Cantabria
2005: Rioja
2006: Castile-La Mancha, Madrid community, Region of Murcia
2007: Balearic Islands
2008: Asturias
2009: Galicia

Only two to go. Andalusia may fall around Easter, and Extremadura is out of the plans for the time being.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: formulanone on January 18, 2014, 05:30:21 PM
1978-79: FL, GA, TN, NY, CT, NJ, RI, MA (first time I was aware there were states)
1980: KY, NH
1981: VA, MD, DC
1982: DE, PA
1990: NC, SC
1991: ME
1998: ES (Spain)
2000: WA, BC
2001: CA, NV
2004: AL, MS, LA
2011: IL, MI, TX, OK, MO, OH, AR
2012: WV, IN, MN, IA, AZ, KS, VT, WI
2013: CO
2014: NE
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: jp the roadgeek on January 19, 2014, 12:59:13 AM
The early days (pre-1980) are guesses/ photos showing me in that state/stories from parents

1975: CT (born)
1977: RI (picture of me at Misquamicut)
1978: FL, MA, NH, ME  (road trip to ME, picture of me at grandparents in FL)
1981: NY, NJ, PA (road trip to Sesame Place/Lancaster County)
1982: GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE (road trip from FL to CT)
1984: VT (visiting dad's old roommate)
1988: MO, HI (Hawaii vacation), PQ
1991: DC (school trip)
1993: Bahamas
1998: WV (drove in and turned around at Harper's Ferry)
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Alps on January 19, 2014, 01:04:18 AM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on January 19, 2014, 12:59:13 AM
The early days (pre-1980) are guesses/ photos showing me in that state/stories from parents

1975: CT (born)
1977: RI (picture of me at Misquamicut)
1978: FL, MA, NH, ME  (road trip to ME, picture of me at grandparents in FL)
1981: NY, NJ, PA (road trip to Sesame Place/Lancaster County)
1982: GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE (road trip from FL to CT)
1984: VT (visiting dad's old roommate)
1988: MO, HI (Hawaii vacation)
1991: DC (school trip)
1998: WV (drove in and turned around at Harper's Ferry)

My problem is that at least 40 of my states would be pure guesses. I didn't keep track too well of what year I went most places.
1983: NJ, NY (probable)
1983 or 84: CT
1984 or 85: PA
1985: PR
1986 or 87: FL
... stuff
2000: TX
2001: LA
2004: OR, WA, AK
2008: HI
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Duke87 on January 19, 2014, 12:44:06 PM
Yikes, what on earth were you doing back in the 90s that results in so much uncertainty?

In my case this was easy since my family never traveled any significant distance unless it was to go on vacation. Furthermore, none of those trips were particularly ambitious or complex and all of them are well documented.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Jim on January 19, 2014, 01:04:10 PM
As with many, some early states/provinces are guesses.  I completed my set of 50 states in 2006 with Hawaii.  Still missing the Canadian Maritimes and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

1970: NY
197?: ME, MA, NH, NJ, VT, ON
1977: CO, IL, IN, IA, MO, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, TX (road trip to NM, CO)
1978: DE, DC?, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA (first road trip to FL)
early 1980s: CT, RI, WV, QC
1985: AZ, CA, ID, KY, MN, MT, NV, SD, UT, WI, WY (first XC road trip to CA)
1989: KS, MI (Yellowstone road trip)
1997: AL, TN (MN/KC/StL/FL road trip)
1998: AR, LA, MS (conference trip to Vicksburg)
1999: OR, WA (trip to Seattle)
2000: AB, BC (Banff ski trip)
2001: AK, ND, MB, SK, YT (AK road trip)
2006: HI
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Alps on January 19, 2014, 01:10:49 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on January 19, 2014, 12:44:06 PM
Yikes, what on earth were you doing back in the 90s that results in so much uncertainty?
I'd have to ask my mom to dig back through 30 years of records to find when individual trips took place, and I don't really care.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: agentsteel53 on January 19, 2014, 06:04:17 PM
1986: NY, CT, RI, MA, NH, ME, ON, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, TN, WV
1987: VT
1988: NB, NS, PE, QC, NF
1998: OH, MI, IN, IL, IA, NE, CO, UT, ID, WY, MT, WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, NM, TX, OK, MO
2003: AR
2004: KY, KS, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC
2005: WI, MN, SD, HI
2006: ND
2007: AK
2010: AB, BC, YT, NU
2011: NT

have not yet been to MB or SK
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: theline on January 19, 2014, 06:45:52 PM
This isn't going to be easy. Some early ones are approximate, but here goes:
1951: IN (born there), OH (relatives there that we visited regularly)
1954: IL, IA, SD
1955: KY
1956: PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA
1957: MI
1959: NY, ON
1964: MO, KS, CO
1965: CA, WI
1966: TN, MS, LA, AR
1967: CT, RI, MA
1969: OK, TX, Mexico (I don't know the state names, but the major cities were Monterrey, Mexico City, and Acapulco)
1974: NC, SC
1976: WV
1978: FL
1979: NV
1980: MN, WY
1982: WA
2006: GA
2009: AL

I didn't count "visits" to a couple of airports that would have moved that state earlier in the list. It doesn't seem like a visit if you don't get out of the terminal.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Takumi on January 19, 2014, 07:46:20 PM
1986: Virginia
1990?: North Carolina. I remember a few early trips to Raleigh and Wanchese around then. It may have been earlier.
1994: Tennessee
1997: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
1998: Maryland
2000: DC, West Virginia, Pennsylvania
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: PHLBOS on January 20, 2014, 02:56:06 PM
1965: Born in MA
1971: NY, NJ, GA, FL
1972: NH
1975: RI
1978: ME
1979: CT, DE
1980: VT
1989: MD, DC, VA
1990: PA
1995: OH, WV
1996: MI
1998: TX
2003: KY, OR, UT
2004: CO, IL
2005: WA, WI
2006: AZ, NC, TN
2008: MN
2010: MS
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: hobsini2 on January 20, 2014, 06:04:11 PM
1976: WI
1980: IL
1983: IN
1985: IA, OH, PA, WV, MD, VA, DC
1994: MN, TX, TN, MI
1996: NJ, FL, CA, AK, MO, AR
2000: NE, KS, OK
2001: KY
2002: NV
2003: SD, ND, MT, WY
2004: CO
2005: NY
2006: NM, MS, AL, GA, CT, RI
2007: MA
2008: DE
2009: NC, SC
2011: UT

So by my count that's 41 states plus DC.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: leroys73 on January 20, 2014, 07:20:09 PM
Wow! That is a tough one for an old fart.

Born in Ohio 1949

I know I visited Kentucky in the early 50s when I lived in Ohio.

Around 1955:  PA and NY along with ON
1957:  IN, IL, MO, KS, OK
Probably 1962:  Texas
Around 1965:  TN
1967:  VA, NC, SC
From 1967 thru 1969 I drove in most of western Europe plus Yugoslavia and Greece.
1969:  NJ
About 1971:  NM, AZ, UT, CO, WY
About 1973:  CA, NV
1974:  NE, SD, WA, OR, MT, ID, BC, AB, First time to drive in Mexico (Coahuila province) 
1975:  WV, MD, VT, NH, MA, ME, CT, RI, NB, NS, PE
1976:  LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, MI, WI, MN, IA
1977:  HI, AR
2001:  DC
2009:  ND
2010:  DE
2013:  MB, SK
2015:  QC

Years are correct or very close. 49 states (Alaska this summer on motorcycle) + DC, 8 Provinces (should add more this summer).
I have revisited 36 + DC and 4 Provinces on motorcycle since 2008. My goal is to visit all states except HI and all Provinces with paved roads on my Made in USA Honda VTX 1300R motorcycle by the end of 2015 when I will be 66.

Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Dr Frankenstein on January 21, 2014, 09:44:14 AM
1990: Born in QC
1991: FL (Miami) (Skipping the intermediate states on the road trip)
1994: NY (Lake Placid)
1999: NB (Kouchibougouac), PE (Charlottetown)
2000: ON (Niagara Falls)
2001: VT (Lake Champlain, not sure where specifically)
2008: ME (Sunday River)
2010: NH, MA (Dad picking up his kit car from the manufacturer in Wareham)
2011: NJ (Newark meet, trip to Wildwood), CT (New Haven meet)
2012: PA, DE, MD, DC, VA (Trip to Va. Beach, Richmond meet)
2013: MI (Detroit Auto Show), NC, SC (Trip to Myrtle Beach)

Planned for 2014: MB, SK, AB, BC, OH, IN, IL
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: hm insulators on January 21, 2014, 10:17:54 AM
This is a fun thread! Let's see here, not counting California where I was born in 1961:

AZ: Sometime when I was a little boy, say 1964 or '65. The second time was in 1997 when my parents moved here from Virginia, then
   several trips to Arizona before I moved to Phoenix in 2004.
OR: 1977; a family trip to visit my brother who was living in Salem at the time.
HI: 1978, then my parents and I moved there in 1979. I moved back to California in 1986; my folks to Roanoke, Virginia of all places
   in 1993.
NV: 1987 or '88
UT, CO, WY, MT, ID and a tiny corner of WA: 1993. Because the old Dodge I owned then wouldn't make the long trip, I rented a car
   and made a big loop through those states; my objective was an insulator-collector's convention (yes, there are such conventions,
   hosted by the National Insulator Association; Truvelo has been to some, also) in Denver that year. I also did OR and NV that trip.
VA, MD, PA, NC, DE, NJ, WV: 1994 to visit my folks in Roanoke, Virginia (flew into Charlotte, NC from LAX, then changed planes
   to Roanoke; I did some driving around North Carolina, too. This was to visit my parents in Roanoke, then I drove to another
   insulator convention in Pennsylvania.

For good measure, one trip to Taiwan with my then roommate (who is originally from there) and a couple of his buddies.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Kacie Jane on January 21, 2014, 12:34:07 PM
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on January 21, 2014, 09:44:14 AM
NB (Kouchibougouac)

Gesundheit.

My list:

1985: born in NY
1988: moved to NJ
sometime before 1992: WA, CT and maybe some more that I can't remember
1992: PA, OH, IN, IL, WI, MN, SD, WY, MT, ID
1993: DE, MD, DC, VA
94-97: ND, RI, MA
1998: MI, ON
1999: IA, NE, OR
2000: VT, NH
2001: NC, SC, GA, FL
2002: PQ, ME, WV, MO, KS, CO, UT, NV, AZ
2003: CA, BC, AK

(May be off on the years in a couple of places, but I think I have them all in the right order at least.)  So no new states in the past decade, buuuuut... I'm driving from Seattle to Florida and back in May/June, so I might be able to knock off the rest of "lower 48" this year.  Then I'll just need to start planning a Hawaiian vacation....
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: english si on January 21, 2014, 02:23:34 PM
1997 - FL
2003 - MI, CA, NV, AZ
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Mike_OH on January 21, 2014, 05:09:22 PM
1981: Ohio (born there)
Early 80's: KY, IN, TN, GA, FL
Mid-to-late 80's: NC
1990: IL, MO
1991: PA, NY, MI, plus Ontario
1993: WV, VA, MD, plus DC.
1996: AL
1997: WI
2001: NJ
2004: SC
2013: AZ, TX (DFW airport only)
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Roadsguy on January 23, 2014, 10:48:38 AM
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: ce929wax on January 29, 2014, 12:43:09 AM
For me, it is:
1985:  Michigan (born)
1986 (roughly): Illinois and Indiana (Dad was stationed in Waukegan)
1987 (roughly): Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina (Dad was stationed in Charleston)
1996: Wisconsin
1997: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California
1998: Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas
1999: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
2007: Colorado
2008: Virginia (Lee County).

Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: doorknob60 on January 29, 2014, 12:50:11 AM
Some of these are guesses, I'll do my best.

1993: Oregon (born), Washington (total guess)
1998: California (I went on many trips there in elementary school, but could have happened earlier)
2006: Idaho (this may have happened much earlier too, don't remember)
2009: Nevada
2010: Wyoming, Montana
2011: New York
2014: Utah (airport only)
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: UNDSIOUX on January 31, 2014, 08:43:04 PM
In approximate order of when I first visited the state in each calendar year-

1977- Born WI
1985- MN
1987- IL
1990- MO, MI
1991- IN, OH
1992- KY
1994- VA, DC, MD, FL
1995- ND, NC (connecting flight CLT only)
1996- MB, KS, SD
1997- TN, AZ, NV (connecting flight LAS only)
1998- CA, AB (connecting flight YYC only), BC, WA
1999- GA
2000- ON (YYZ airport only), NY (LGA, HPN airports only)
2001- OK, TX, NM, CO, NE, IA
2002- NV (full visit), UT, AL, AR, MS, PA, NY (full visit), NC (full visit), SC, ON (full visit)
2003- WV, CT, MA, NH, NJ

States have not visited- AK, DE, HI, ID, LA, OR, ME, MT, RI, VT, WY
Provinces- AB (still need to do full visit), SK, QC and all eastern provinces/islands

2006- Married to a spouse who has no sense of adventure in travel so I don't see any changes to this list happening anytime soon.. :-/
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: Sanctimoniously on January 31, 2014, 08:50:11 PM
Does this count driving through a state to get to another place? If so, some of these dates may change and additions would be made.

California: 1990, at birth.
Florida: Circa 1992.
Louisiana: 1996.
Mississippi: Circa 1998-2000.
Texas: Circa 2001.
Illinois: 2008.
Virginia: 2008.
North Carolina: 2010.
Massachusetts: 2010.
South Carolina: Circa 2011.

Foreign countries:
Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan: 2011.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: roadman65 on January 31, 2014, 09:48:09 PM
1987 IL
1989 OH and KY
1990 TN
1992 LA MS AL
1997 TX
2000 MO KS NM AZ NV UT CO
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: ET21 on February 01, 2014, 06:58:43 PM
1992 (year born): Illinois
1996: Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida
1997: Indiana
2000: Iowa
2001: Michigan
2003: Minnesota, California
2005: South Dakota, Wyoming
2006: New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio
2007: Alaska, Colorado

Foreign: Canada
Ontario: 2006
British Colombia: 2007
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: sammi on February 01, 2014, 07:05:09 PM
Quote from: ET21 on February 01, 2014, 06:58:43 PM
Foreign: Canada, 2006
Nope. Canada isn't foreign enough. You need to add provinces here. :sombrero:
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: ET21 on February 01, 2014, 07:08:04 PM
Quote from: sammi on February 01, 2014, 07:05:09 PM
Quote from: ET21 on February 01, 2014, 06:58:43 PM
Foreign: Canada, 2006
Nope. Canada isn't foreign enough. You need to add provinces here. :sombrero:

They gave us Justin Beiber, that's foreign enough for me  :)

I edited it :P
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: sammi on February 01, 2014, 07:11:22 PM
Quote from: ET21 on February 01, 2014, 07:08:04 PM
They gave us Justin Bieber, that's foreign enough for me  :)
Yeah, sometimes makes me not want to be Canadian :-D
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: formulanone on February 01, 2014, 10:45:28 PM
Quote from: UNDSIOUX link=topic=11404.msg2752
2000- ON (YYZ airport only), NY (LGA, HPN airports only)

White Plains is an unusual place to make a flight layover. Unexpected change in travel plans?
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: theline on February 02, 2014, 12:38:56 AM
Quote from: theline on January 19, 2014, 06:45:52 PM
This isn't going to be easy. Some early ones are approximate, but here goes:
1951: IN (born there), OH (relatives there that we visited regularly)
1954: IL, IA, SD
1955: KY
1956: PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA
1957: MI
1959: NY, ON
1964: MO, KS, CO
1965: CA, WI
1966: TN, MS, LA, AR
1967: CT, RI, MA
1969: OK, TX, Mexico (I don't know the state names, but the major cities were Monterrey, Mexico City, and Acapulco)
1974: NC, SC
1976: WV
1978: FL
1979: NV
1980: MN, WY
1982: WA, BC
2006: GA
2009: AL

I didn't count "visits" to a couple of airports that would have moved that state earlier in the list. It doesn't seem like a visit if you don't get out of the terminal.

ET21's recent post including British Columbia reminded me that I've been there, to the beautiful city of Vancouver. I've added it above.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: golden eagle on February 05, 2014, 09:22:17 AM
1974: New York (born there), Mississippi (moved here)
1983: Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois
1984: Wisconsin
1986: Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana
1987: Alabama, Florida
1988: Michigan
1990: Louisiana
1991: Georgia, South Carolina
1996: California
2001: Texas
2003: Arizona, New Mexico
2008: Nevada

This summer, I plan to go to Washington, D.C. I know I'll be able to Maryland & Virginia to list if I fly; North Carolina will be added if going by car.
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on February 05, 2014, 11:08:17 AM
1974: IN
1977: OH, IL, MO, KS, CO, NM, AZ
1983: MI, KY, TN
1984: WV, PA, MD, DC, VA, GA, FL
1985: AR
1986: CA, TX, OK
1990: IA, NE
1993: WI
1997: NJ, NY
2000: WA, OR
2001: MN, ND, MT, WY, SD
2002: UT, ID
2003: SC
2005: DE
2006: CT
2008: MS
2009: NC
2012: AL, LA
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: bugo on February 05, 2014, 12:45:24 PM
North Dakota: 2009
South Dakota: 2002
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska: 2001
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida: 1996
The rest: not sure
Title: Re: The year you first visited each state
Post by: hm insulators on February 11, 2014, 02:28:48 PM
Quote from: sammi on February 01, 2014, 07:11:22 PM
Quote from: ET21 on February 01, 2014, 07:08:04 PM
They gave us Justin Bieber, that's foreign enough for me  :)
Yeah, sometimes makes me not want to be Canadian :-D

But you can be proud that you gave us Rush and Red Green! :clap: :clap: :clap: