What counties have yall been to? Compared to some people I haven't been to very many :-/
List (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/bignmatt.gif)
[Edited thread title for spelling. -S.]
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/artistjake.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/artistjake.gif)
must get ahead of Larry!
You shouldn't mark counties you haven't been to on the map. It counts them as visited and gives you an unfairly high number on the main leaderboard and throws things off if you want to use the compare-against-another-roadgeek maps.
As for me I have 364 counties clinched at the moment. 77 of those are in Oklahoma, which I have finished all counties of. I also have DC done :P My next most-complete state is Missouri, where I have 47/115 counties for 37.4%.
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/scott5114.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/scott5114.gif)
Quote from: agentsteel53 on October 03, 2009, 11:16:46 PM
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/artistjake.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/artistjake.gif)
must get ahead of Larry!
Not going to happen, Jake... :no: He is on the road clinching counties even as I write this...
Quote from: flaroadgeek on October 03, 2009, 11:21:28 PM
Not going to happen, Jake... :no: He is on the road clinching counties even as I write this...
uh oh. I see my January trip has to be even more massive and made of boners than I had originally anticipated!
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/corco.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/corco.gif)
In the next week I'll be adding Clark NV, Mohave AZ, and San Bernandino CA
I'm in Matt's company here
CO 6/64
CT 8/8
DE 3/3
FL 6/67
MA 13/14
MD 11/24
ME 8/16
NC 1/100
NH 1/10
NJ 15/21
NY 17/62
OH 7/88
PA 21/67
RI 3/5
VA 19/134
VT 8/14
Total: 147
In map form (http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9586/counties.png).
Only a measly 10% of the total. Low end of the totem pole FTW!
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/temptationwaits.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/temptationwaits.gif)
Got most of everything (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/froggie.gif) east of the Mississippi. It's tough breaking that Great Plains barrier when you're stationed on the East Coast, though...
I have over 2900 counties, including everything east of the Mississippi, west of the Rockies, north of I-94, and south of I-20. My remaining counties are all in the middle of the country, which like Froggie means I have to go well out of my way to add to my totals.
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/oscar.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/oscar.gif)
It helps that I've been at it a long time, used to live in California which built up my Western state totals, and also had most of summer 2008 off so I could knock off almost 400 counties last year (the pace has slowed considerably this year).
Also, I have done very little travel outside North America, my *countries* total is only seven (including two visited only as a baby, being shown off to my Italian grandparents). I know I'm way behind at least Froggie on that score.
I'm definitely not near 2900, but here are my totals...
Alabama: 36
Arizona: 5
Arkansas: 28
California: 4
Florida: 19
Georgia: 27
Illinois: 39
Indiana: 17
Kansas: 1
Kentucky: 32
Louisiana: 21
Michigan: 12
Mississippi: 69
Missouri: 23, plus the city of St. Louis, which is an independent city
Nevada: 1
New Mexico: 4
New York: 2
Ohio: 24
Pennsylvania: 1
South Carolina: 1
Tennessee: 26
Texas: 26
Wisconsin: 3
So, 421 plus St. Louis. I'm planning a few future road trips in the next year or two, so hopefully, I'll add a few to my totals.
Been stuck at 815 for awhile. Thinking about taking taking US 61-US 425-US 165-Ark 44-US 49 from Baton Rouge to Helena, Ark. (blues festival in Arkansas this coming weekend) just to pick up a measly 6 or 7 counties/parishes.
That and I keep meaning to pick off St. Bernard Parish so I can have the Gulf Coast (at least from Galveston to Mobile) "completed."
Mine at:
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/andytom.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/andytom.gif)
--Andy
My collection is pretty respectable:
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/terescoj.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/terescoj.gif)
I'm at 1550, just a bit short of half way there.
Quote from: osu-lsu on October 04, 2009, 12:13:57 PM
I keep meaning to pick off St. Bernard Parish so I can have the Gulf Coast (at least from Galveston to Mobile) "completed."
I need Plaquemines and St. Bernard to complete the section from Jefferson Parish to Ft. Walton Beach. I'd thought about going to New Orleans today, but it started raining.
How do you create those county maps?
Quote from: PennDOTFan on October 04, 2009, 07:31:13 PM
How do you create those county maps?
Do as it say's Here (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/new_account.html)
BigMatt
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=842 (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=842)
2047 so far. Sadly I did a lot of traveling without thinking about counties until just over a year ago (when I clinched most of California and Florida). Prior to that, most of my trips left odd stranded counties here or there.
Sykotyk
Here's my map:
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1178 (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1178)
576 counties
The map is not 100% accurate but it's close.
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/miketheactuary.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/miketheactuary.gif)
1214 here
My map:
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1847 (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1847)
I realize that I've been to 434 counties and parishes, so more than the 421 plus the city of St. Louis that I thought I've been to.
Quote from: PennDOTFan on October 04, 2009, 07:31:13 PM
How do you create those county maps?
go here...
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/ (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/)
1667 or 53% for me. My map http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/allniter.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/allniter.gif)
Clinched AL, DC, DE and FL (home).
I havent visited SD or VT yet. :-/
I'm limited:
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1848&big= (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1848&big=)
Meh:
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1852&big= (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1852&big=)
Dammit. I can't even clinch my home state :pan:
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1860&big= (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1860&big=)
^^
Don't worry, I haven't done all of my state. I have somewhere about a dozen counties in Mississippi left to clinch.
Meh... http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/dtp.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/dtp.gif) I really don't get off the East Coast much do I? :-D
QuoteMeh... http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/dtp.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/dtp.gif) I really don't get off the East Coast much do I?
Looks like a ride down I 95.... to St Augustine, FL? :hmmm:
Here are the counties that I've visited:
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1863&big= (http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=1863&big=)
I've only clinched CT and DE so far. So, it's not odd. With all my traveling across Ohio and Pennsylvania, it surprised me that I've never been to every county in each state. The western states (and Texas) are working themselves out quickly without a lot of side trips to do it, really.
Sykotyk
Quote from: allniter89 on October 07, 2009, 11:12:46 PM
QuoteMeh... http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/dtp.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/dtp.gif) I really don't get off the East Coast much do I?
Looks like a ride down I 95.... to St Augustine, FL? :hmmm:
BINGO! :clap:
QuoteLooks like a ride down I 95.... to St Augustine, FL? Hmm.
BINGO!
YAY ME!!! :spin:
I've made it to 504 counties (16%)
I don't think I'll ever be in the league with some of you... :wow:
AL-5
AZ-1
CA-55
CO-9
CT-8
DE-1
FL-9
GA-54
ID-1
IL-8
IN-25
IA-12
ME-13
MD-9
MA-12
MI-38
MN-1
MO-1
NE-15
NV-10
NH-10
NJ-16
NY-26
NC-6
OH-13
OR-23
PA-26
RI-4
SC-6
TN-12
TX-2
UT-7
VT-10
VA-25
WA-23
WV-1
WY-5
DC-1
Jake, I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy. I do have the winning powerball ticket in my possession for tonight, so once I win it....look out :pan:
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/larbearfl.gif
Great job on kicking my butt!
Here's mine. Not as impressive as some, but....
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/miketheactuary.gif
Quote from: Jim on October 04, 2009, 01:14:37 PM
My collection is pretty respectable:
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/terescoj.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/terescoj.gif)
I'm at 1550, just a bit short of half way there.
Per your cmap, you actually have nicked the corner of Waldo County ME.
Quote from: Duke87 on October 04, 2009, 12:54:56 AM
I'm in Matt's company here
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ME 8/16
...
In map form (http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9586/counties.png).
Lemme guess - from NH to Acadia National Park via I-95, I-395, and US1A...
Quote from: yakra on February 03, 2010, 06:27:40 PM
Quote from: Jim on October 04, 2009, 01:14:37 PM
My collection is pretty respectable:
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/terescoj.gif (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/terescoj.gif)
I'm at 1550, just a bit short of half way there.
Per your cmap, you actually have nicked the corner of Waldo County ME.
Thanks. Always nice to pick up a county without leaving the house.
I'm up to 2170 now. So, 125 counties in roughly four months.
If I can go across US-36 in Kansas, I'll clinch the state. Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico I plan to visit later this year (along with the Moki Dugway, Million Dollar Highway, etc).
Quote
If I can go across US-36 in Kansas, I'll clinch the state. Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico I plan to visit later this year (along with the Moki Dugway, Million Dollar Highway, etc).
Word of advice when you go US-36 across Kansas- watch the potholes the size of Cadillacs as you cross into Colorado from Kansas on 36- 36 from the Colorado State Line to 385 might be the worst maintained stretch of theoretically important road in the country
Otherwise it's a fun drive- I highly recommend it- it's my favorite way to get across the land between I-70 and I-80
MI - 1: Wayne
NV - 1: Clark
AZ - 3: Mohave, Yavapai, Coconino
FL - 3: Orange, Brevard, Osceola
CA - 18: San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Kern, San Louis Obispo, Kings, Fresno, Monterey, Merced, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda.
A grand total of 26!
I've done 32 French Departments (out of ~100) and 56 UK Lieutenancy areas* of the UK (out of 99) - all but 5 of the English ones, all but 2 of the Welsh ones, and a splattering of the Scottish ones (I have 29 left to do there) plus none of the 8 in Northern Ireland.
*Counties are messed up in the UK - different countries have different definitions, and there's several different sets of counties co-existing (administrative, ceremonial, etc). Lieutenancy areas are counties for ceremonial purposes - in England at least!
Quote from: yakra on February 03, 2010, 06:35:14 PM
Lemme guess - from NH to Acadia National Park via I-95, I-395, and US1A...
Sort of. Going up we took 295 instead of 95 (post-2004 definitions), and going back we took ME 3 to Augusta. But otherwise yes.
I'm late to the game, but I've finally established my map:
www.mob-rule.com/cgi-bin/makeuser.cgi?user=nightrunner
A few states have a few counties going on childhood memory - chances are I'm missing a few from that and a few extra as well, but it probably evens out.
My map looks like crap compared to you guys but I'm getting there slowly.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi57.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg224%2FBigmikelakers%2FCountiesJune2012.jpg&hash=27c4bbffd3333383da04afab7772798f3cdd1a6c)
Tried to log into that website today but couldn't remember my password. Going to have some new counties to add after next week, anyway.
Quote from: Steve on June 02, 2012, 03:02:17 AM
I'm late to the game, but I've finally established my map:
www.mob-rule.com/cgi-bin/makeuser.cgi?user=nightrunner
A few states have a few counties going on childhood memory - chances are I'm missing a few from that and a few extra as well, but it probably evens out.
How do you have that one big gaping hole in Maine?
Quote from: hbelkins on June 02, 2012, 02:55:55 PM
Quote from: Steve on June 02, 2012, 03:02:17 AM
I'm late to the game, but I've finally established my map:
www.mob-rule.com/cgi-bin/makeuser.cgi?user=nightrunner
A few states have a few counties going on childhood memory - chances are I'm missing a few from that and a few extra as well, but it probably evens out.
How do you have that one big gaping hole in Maine?
I've taken ME 11 down from Fort Kent but didn't stay on it through that one county. Meanwhile, I've also come down US 201 to the west. Counties aren't a priority for me, so the hole might stick around awhile till I get around to clinching 11.
Here's mine:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fcencaroadgeek.gif&hash=513fa215adaeb035187b491182737b59061f68fa)
Why does it seem like everyone's map is formatted slightly differently?
Quote from: deanej on June 04, 2012, 11:33:10 AM
Why does it seem like everyone's map is formatted slightly differently?
You can customize your map as you wish. Its a good way of sorting - by year, by trip, by who you went with/alone, etc.
on that topic - I present my US counties:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fmaster_son.gif&hash=95bb6c2bf51a9535ec861a7866b5a1ca03a785c2)
Canada's not too impressive, all are in NW Ontario
Still need to put together Canada. Here's my U.S. coverage. Next counties are probably going to be an effort to put a big dent in either Ohio or Virginia over labor day weekend.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fdaniel294.gif&hash=c6ff577cca036630da563475d2d2caf9a6ccb557)
I'm in the early planning stages of a short trip in July to clinch North Carolina and pick up a few strays in South Carolina. I've tried to do this two Martin Luther King Day weekends in a row but wasn't able to. Doing it in July instead of January will give me a lot more daylight to work with.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fftballfan.gif&hash=6833862e6fc52f5c677eb8632042c42819c1fef3)
I obtained four new counties over Memorial Day weekend (Bay, Saginaw, Genesee, and Shiawassee counties in Michigan). I was going to visit a friend from college in Flushing (Genesee County) and got there early, so I decided to go get Shiawassee County (to avoid a donut hole, where one has not been to one county but has been to every county surrounding it; Lenawee County is an example of a donut hole county for me). If I go visit friends in Flushing again this summer, I may take a side trip to get Gladwin County and possibly Ogemaw and Arenac counties (and get closer to clinching I-75 and M-55).
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on June 03, 2012, 05:32:03 PM
Here's mine:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fcencaroadgeek.gif&hash=513fa215adaeb035187b491182737b59061f68fa)
How the heck do you have two counties in western Mississippi?
Quote from: Steve on June 05, 2012, 11:58:21 PM
How the heck do you have two counties in western Mississippi?
I have an aunt in Brandon, and we flew to get to get to Jackson.
I'm surprised Mississippi has an airport :-D
this is cool to see where you guys have traveled. You can see the rough outline of an interstate across the country. I saved the pic of my mob rule counties but what's the best way to upload it here?
Quote from: BigMattFromTexas on October 03, 2009, 11:08:12 PM
What counties have yall been to? Compared to some people I haven't been to very many :-/
List (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/bignmatt.gif)
[Edited thread title for spelling. -S.]
So it looks like you skipped a Texas county to reach Louisiana! I'm assuming you flew to Shreveport and then went south?
Quote from: bassoon1986 on June 06, 2012, 08:58:29 PM
this is cool to see where you guys have traveled. You can see the rough outline of an interstate across the country. I saved the pic of my mob rule counties but what's the best way to upload it here?
you can take it directly off the site.
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/agentsteel53.gif
replace my username with yours.
QuoteI'm surprised Mississippi has an airport
Saved my sanity for 3 years. Occasionally cheaper than flying in/out of New Orleans too.
Regarding my own map (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/froggie.gif), I really need to get out West sometime.
Finally nice to put a map to some of the user ids here.
The air travel helps with the heavy lifting, living in the cul-de-sac of the continental United States:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmob-rule.com%2Fuser-gifs%2FUSA%2Fformulanone.gif&hash=8ca5b666798021ddabdc029addf918aa2f297a2f)
Company pays for the travel and most associated expenses, but that means much of the clinching is done one piece at a time. Otherwise, I'm a lightweight compared to most of you!
On the subject, the Washington Post wrote an article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/visiting-every-us-state-too-easy-for-you-how-about-every-us-county/2012/05/23/gJQAguwUlU_story.html) a couple weeks ago on Reid Williamson and his county collecting. Regulars on mob-rule.com may recognize his name as one long being at/near the top of the list.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fjbum86.gif&hash=451aaee9b18e96d91da964415d304198831f990b)
well here's mine. It's pretty obvious to see some of the specific places I've been. I need to venture north and west!
Next in my sights to clinch: North Carolina
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fhbelkins.gif&hash=ec8918a7f2a5b304a38748dbcc73db9639613e61)\
I only lack two counties to clinch New York, but they are Suffolk and Nassau on Long Island and I don't imagine I will get a chance to visit them unless someone hosts another LI meet.
Quote from: froggie on June 07, 2012, 11:12:28 AM
On the subject, the Washington Post wrote an article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/visiting-every-us-state-too-easy-for-you-how-about-every-us-county/2012/05/23/gJQAguwUlU_story.html) a couple weeks ago on Reid Williamson and his county collecting. Regulars on mob-rule.com may recognize his name as one long being at/near the top of the list.
According to the mob-rule scorecard, Oscar Voss (regular here and MTR) is one of two so far to visit each county (parish) in the country. Reid is missing a county in Alaska to be complete. BTW, Rich Carlson and Dave Schul (MTR alumnus) are 16th & 17th on the list as well.
Quote from: bassoon1986 on June 07, 2012, 10:05:20 PM
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well here's mine. It's pretty obvious to see some of the specific places I've been. I need to venture north and west!
I can see from FL to GA you went on US 19, then to US 82, GA 520, US 280, and finally the US 78 (future I-22) to Memphis.
There is no corridor through Georgia with one number that takes them counties. Also, in Alabama, SE and NW from Birmingham has different routes with US 78 curving from E-W to NW to SE and you going from either NW-SE or SE to NW.
Out of 3,086 counties nationwide, I have only been to 25 of them. I got an extremely long way to go.
I have a very strict definition of stopped. When I mean stopped, I mean spent at least one night there.
The counties I have been to are as follows (CSRA counties bolded):
In Georgia:
Columbia County
Richmond County
In North Carolina:
Mecklenburg County
In South Carolina:
Aiken County
Allendale County
Bamberg County
Barnwell County
Beaufort County
Berkeley County
Charleston County
Chester County
Clarendon County
Dorchester County
Edgefield County
Fairfield County
Greenville County
Hampton County
Laurens County
Lexington County
Newberry County
Orangeburg County
Richland County
Saluda County
Sumter County
York County
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X9fi2XllM3g/T9OqNY5hKQI/AAAAAAAABjw/SUpOEvCOVEk/s512/visited%2520GA.JPG)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wer4cdViL1Q/T9OqNImYIZI/AAAAAAAABjk/Zb4jHugY0Us/s834/visited%2520NC.JPG)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-KAhwzWSabuY/T9OqNWCsUmI/AAAAAAAABjs/MLgdnEwEfsc/s552/visited%2520SC.JPG)
Considering I don't live in the country I don't think I've done too badly.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedcam.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk%2Fcounties.jpg&hash=8d366fa3317f492b57fbd797de332dc156d01000)
As time has changed, so have the patterns for various reasons. Light green is the most recent, while lavender reflects the longest of the family trips as a child. (Some of that has been overridden by later trips, driving out to college, etc.)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fjwtaber.gif&hash=c492a21e4109ca550721186695b3388ccdfbe075)
736 counties. I don't go out of my way to collect counties, so my number is much lower than it would be if I were a county counter. I've gone out of my way to pick up a county once or twice in my life. The reason I set up an account is so that I can see where I've been on a map.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fbugo.gif&hash=ee499e52bed4cfb6e708afc2c0930d3e93dd3633)
Quote from: roadman65 on June 09, 2012, 03:00:02 PM
Quote from: bassoon1986 on June 07, 2012, 10:05:20 PM
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fjbum86.gif&hash=451aaee9b18e96d91da964415d304198831f990b)
well here's mine. It's pretty obvious to see some of the specific places I've been. I need to venture north and west!
I can see from FL to GA you went on US 19, then to US 82, GA 520, US 280, and finally the US 78 (future I-22) to Memphis.
There is no corridor through Georgia with one number that takes them counties. Also, in Alabama, SE and NW from Birmingham has different routes with US 78 curving from E-W to NW to SE and you going from either NW-SE or SE to NW.
Yeah that was a trip from Shreveport to Disney World and on the way back we went to visit family in Columbus GA then Memphis. That was in 2000 and I remember we couldn't get on the US 78 freeway until we were past Jasper. IIRC we tried too early to leave 78 to find an exit for the interstate and found a future exit that wasn't completed yet
Quote from: bugo on June 09, 2012, 06:47:45 PM
736 counties. I don't go out of my way to collect counties, so my number is much lower than it would be if I were a county counter. I've gone out of my way to pick up a county once or twice in my life.
I'm a state counter which is why many of my journeys take place around the border of several states. In particular the area to the northeast of Denver where I deliberately tried to cover as many states as possible. I was just one county short of reaching South Dakota which is disappointing but I would have missed my flight otherwise.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fthe49erfan15.gif&hash=405af20e4b893dd5dab75acee60cc7b08db9f1ea)
Finally got finished with mine.
I started college in 2005 and before then, I'd only been to SC, NC, TN, VA, and WV. I've logged 36 states and a ton more counties in the 6 years since then, multiple trips from Alaska to SC, a drive from SC to Los Angeles, traveling for college basketball, and a few other scattered road trips will do that!
Haven't clinched my home state of SC, missing a few rural counties on the SC/GA border. The only state I've clinched is Delaware. :-D
I count states as well. I'm up to a whopping 28, but to my defense I haven't been to any of the small northeastern states. I believe Indiana or Mississippi might be the smallest state I've ever been to.
I haven't yet done my own map and I will wait until later this summer when I will probably pick up some new counties to do my map. One question I have is what standard do most people use to determine whether they have visited a county or not? I intend to use my own standard, but I'm curious to know other people's standards.
My standard for the most part is as long as I remember and was aware that I visited a county, I will count it-whether I actually set foot in the county or just drove through. I prefer to actually see some physical proof that I was in a county(like a county line sign), but that isn't absolutely necessary-sometimes a county line sign isn't put up for some reason(particularly on some toll roads-which annoys me). Also, I do have some cases of where I traveled through some counties while I was sleeping as a passenger in a car or riding on a bus-I count those too. There are also some counties that I know I traveled through when I was little(before I started following along with trips on the map)-those I probably will not count because even though I know I traveled through them, I was not aware at the time that I was traveling through them.
The one I'm most curious to see how other people handle them is visiting a county just by flying into an airport to change planes and never leaving the airport. Miami-Dade County in Florida is the only county that fits this description for me(there are others I have changed planes in too, but have also visited by road at other times). I might be inclined not to count it if not for the fact that I have visited it 4 times in that manner and spent almost a total of 24 hours there-which is more time than I have spent in most other counties. I also am counting Richmond County, NY which I only visited by riding the Staten Island Ferry(and never leaving the ferry terminal before the return trip).
So do most of you count every county you have ever physically been in, or do you require something else-like actually getting out of the car and setting foot in the county?
I got a bit weird with this, I counted every county I had physically been to (airports included) but I don't count those as states I've visited. I've only been to the airport in Salt Lake City, I counted that county but I don't count Utah as a state I've visited.
I also counted everything from family trips when I was little, but they didn't add that many because we never went too far away. Counted my trip on Amtrak from Portland to Spokane as well.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on June 10, 2012, 06:12:14 PM
The one I'm most curious to see how other people handle them is visiting a county just by flying into an airport to change planes and never leaving the airport.
I'm conflicted on this. Right now, I count them on my map, but something still seems a little off about it. This affects three of my counties (the one in Colorado and the two in Texas).
And as for my map, here it is:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ften93.com%2F2012%2Fcounties-by-date.png&hash=04b7ccfa4256ef6eaa0c095e11760586d4e18bb4)
Still a little irritated that I didn't clinch MD and DE before moving back south, but c'est la vie.
Unlike some fastidious county-counters who insist on a visit to the county seat or something else more or less meaningful, I shamelessly count every county I've "entered" (not necessarily "visited"), which means crossing the county line at more or less ground level. I have some "spinbacks" in both my U.S. and Canada totals (crossing the line, then quickly turning around -- but sometimes the "line" is unposted, so you need to continue to a village or highway junction to make sure you crossed the line). But I don't have a count of those, and the number slowly shrinks as I make more legitimate revisits to some of the "spinback" counties.
Three of my counties in Alaska, all of which I include in my U.S. total, raise the airport question noted above. One of them, the Petersburg census area, I passed through on a ferry which docked in Petersburg but I didn't get off in port; I later took a flight from Wrangell to Juneau that stopped at the Petersburg airport, but I stayed on the plane then too. For the Wade Hampton census area, my only contact with the county was a flight to the St. Mary's airport (one of the places featured in the "Flying Wild Alaska" TV series), where I got off the plane to catch a connecting flight which itself made a stop in another airport within Wade Hampton on the way to Bethel. My plan had been for a more substantial visit to St. Mary's village during the layover, but alas the on-and-off local taxi service was "off" when I visited, and nothing worth seeing was within walking distance, so I was stuck at the airport. Bristol Bay borough was similar to Wade Hampton, except a tight flight connection removed the option of leaving the King Salmon airport during the layover.
Every other county I've flown or ferried into, I've either also driven to or through on some other visit, or I've gotten off the plane or ferry to at least set foot in the county.
I would say changing planes at the airport is good enough for both county and state. I currently have no states I've only visited this way so the latter is irrelevant, though I do have a couple of counties clinched this way.
For visiting a state, I have to put my feet on the ground. For visiting a county, all that's necessary is being in something on the ground - driving through by car is fine. So is landing and taking off in the same plane without getting off, for that matter (though, again - no counties currently clinched this way).
Passing through a county by boat also counts. I have one county currently taking advantage of this.
It counts if you don't remember it (either on account of being asleep or being too young at the time), but I have no counties or states in either category.
Here's a current version of my map:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg600.imageshack.us%2Fimg600%2F2286%2Fcountiesii.png&hash=e80099592b4998579ef8f91e6ea5ce7168ebade3)
347 US counties, plus 31 in Canada.
It's about to balloon like hell over the next couple months, though. Big Trip planned!
Eth, that's a very clean map. Did you make that yourself or use a different program? It looks great.
Made that one myself. The base map came from Wikipedia, and I think I altered it to remove the visible county borders. It's an SVG, so pretty easy to work with.
I don't count airports, but at this point I've been to all of the counties I ever laid over in. Your mileage may vary, but I counted the counties in BC and AK that I only ferried through. My take on it is that as long as I was within the state boundaries, I was also within the county boundaries, and at least I'm on something moving at ground level. I definitely have taken photos within counties without having set foot. I don't use the set-foot rule while driving, either, for either county or state clinching.
I know some people have different qualifications for their county visits. James Schul has to visit the county seat before he counts it. Brian Reynolds enters and leaves the county at different spots.
For me, if I have been in the county, it counts. No stop required, don't have to place my feet on the soil for it to count, and I count the ones that I was in as a child on family vacations even if I don't remember the trip. I've only been to Florida twice in my life, once on a family vacation and once on a high school band trip. On the family vacation, my dad (from whom I think I inherited roadgeek tendencies and took them to a new level) wanted to drive US 25 north from its southern terminus, so I was able to go back and trace the counties we traveled through in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina by looking at maps. Ditto for some trips to Virginia and North Carolina, although I later did the Virginia counties on my own.
I would not have Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania or Vermont complete without what Oscar calls "spinbacks." I managed to complete Tennessee, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey without the need to do that. Clinches of Kentucky and West Virginia came without making a conscious effort to visit every county, although my dad and I did take a trip to allow him to say he'd been in every county in the state.
Quote from: hbelkins on June 11, 2012, 12:55:02 AM
I know some people have different qualifications for their county visits. James Schul has to visit the county seat before he counts it. Brian Reynolds enters and leaves the county at different spots.
so do I, mostly. I enter in the northbound lane, I exit in the southbound.
the most bizarre county clinch I've done is to stick my hands over a ranch fence in Texas. We weren't sure if the county line was down the middle of the right of way, at the edge of it, or at the fence, so ScottN and I made absolutely sure by waving our hands over the fence.
yes, it counts if only
part of you is in a given county.
For my map I will count it as visited if I can reasonably "prove" that I have entered that county. I don't necessarily have to see the sign, but if I know, say, that I went through an entire state on some highway and the Wikipedia exit list shows that county along the way, it counts. I also count airports (although the only "layover" I've ever had was when a flight was temporarily rerouted to Chicago Midway due to fog, and I've since visited Cook County) since I can look up what county that's in. There have also been instances where I guessed the location of the county line by a pavement change/bump in the road.
For "slept here", I have to have slept indoors. (Naps count!) This is because I have gone on some camping trips, and I don't remember where a lot of them were, and wouldn't have any way of verifying which county the tent was pitched in. For "lived here", I still count Greene County, MO, even though my legal permanent residence was still in Oklahoma–I slept in MO on a regular basis, and that's enough for the county to be shaded pink on my map.
I have one "questionably clinched" county on my map. That's one where I was county hunting in Texaswith Jake, and we went down a FM road to try to get a county. The road ran right along the county line, just to the east of the county we wanted to get. We were looking for a county road or some sort of driveway to turn down to unquestionably cross the county line–no such luck; there were no turns to the west before the FM road veered away from the line! So we decided to park, and walked over to the edge of the ROW and waved our arms over the fence into the adjoining property, figuring that fence was probably pretty close to the county line. I would like to go back and make 100% sure I entered the county, but until such a time I'm quite content to consider it "questionably clinched". (While I was posting this Jake posted about the exact same thing!)
Scott, do you remember which TX county that was? I want to see if I've re-entered it in a more formal fashion.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 11, 2012, 10:25:47 AM
Scott, do you remember which TX county that was? I want to see if I've re-entered it in a more formal fashion.
A quick check of the map shows it as Stonewall County.
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 11, 2012, 10:29:26 AM
A quick check of the map shows it as Stonewall County.
then the only way I have it is with the arms method.
Some airport layovers are brutal enough that they darn well do count! I only have three of those.
PHX wasn't too bad in Maricopa County, per se...but a three hour wait.
MSP in Hennepin County is a ridiculous walk...how many malls can you shove into one airport? And who laid out the terminals? No connections between them, use your feet and Run Forrest Run!
I suppose landing in CVG and hanging out for 90 minutes doesn't count for much, but I did watch UK defeat Baylor to get into the Final Four (while waiting for my flight to LAX that was supposed to go out of ATL that day), which kind of validates your stay, along with the purchase of a bottled water.
Quote from: the49erfan15 on June 10, 2012, 04:33:56 PM
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fthe49erfan15.gif&hash=405af20e4b893dd5dab75acee60cc7b08db9f1ea)
Finally got finished with mine.
I started college in 2005 and before then, I'd only been to SC, NC, TN, VA, and WV. I've logged 36 states and a ton more counties in the 6 years since then, multiple trips from Alaska to SC, a drive from SC to Los Angeles, traveling for college basketball, and a few other scattered road trips will do that!
Haven't clinched my home state of SC, missing a few rural counties on the SC/GA border. The only state I've clinched is Delaware. :-D
Did you play college basketball?
Quote from: ftballfan on June 11, 2012, 06:25:17 PM
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Finally got finished with mine.
I started college in 2005 and before then, I'd only been to SC, NC, TN, VA, and WV. I've logged 36 states and a ton more counties in the 6 years since then, multiple trips from Alaska to SC, a drive from SC to Los Angeles, traveling for college basketball, and a few other scattered road trips will do that!
Haven't clinched my home state of SC, missing a few rural counties on the SC/GA border. The only state I've clinched is Delaware. :-D
Did you play college basketball?
No - though looking back at my post, it reads that way. I was actually our mascot, and my friends and I traveled to a lot of the away games as fans. Helps when you're on the visiting travel list for free tickets! Our conference had teams in SC-NC-VA, and we'd usually play at least a few out of conference games to make big trips out of.
Quote from: the49erfan15 on June 11, 2012, 06:30:58 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 11, 2012, 06:25:17 PM
Quote from: the49erfan15 on June 10, 2012, 04:33:56 PM
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Finally got finished with mine.
I started college in 2005 and before then, I'd only been to SC, NC, TN, VA, and WV. I've logged 36 states and a ton more counties in the 6 years since then, multiple trips from Alaska to SC, a drive from SC to Los Angeles, traveling for college basketball, and a few other scattered road trips will do that!
Haven't clinched my home state of SC, missing a few rural counties on the SC/GA border. The only state I've clinched is Delaware. :-D
Did you play college basketball?
No - though looking back at my post, it reads that way. I was actually our mascot, and my friends and I traveled to a lot of the away games as fans. Helps when you're on the visiting travel list for free tickets! Our conference had teams in SC-NC-VA, and we'd usually play at least a few out of conference games to make big trips out of.
That's really cool!
I don't count layovers as counties/states unless I leave the terminal. Until earlier this year, the only reason I had Missouri is because I got stuck there overnight after a flight cancellation.
Quote from: ftballfan on June 11, 2012, 06:31:51 PM
Quote from: the49erfan15 on June 11, 2012, 06:30:58 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on June 11, 2012, 06:25:17 PM
Did you play college basketball?
No - though looking back at my post, it reads that way. I was actually our mascot, and my friends and I traveled to a lot of the away games as fans. Helps when you're on the visiting travel list for free tickets! Our conference had teams in SC-NC-VA, and we'd usually play at least a few out of conference games to make big trips out of.
That's really cool!
Thanks! I had a lot of fun with it. I start grad school in August, and it looks like I'll be suiting up there, too. I'm really excited about it.
Quote from: DBrim on June 11, 2012, 06:33:22 PM
I don't count layovers as counties/states unless I leave the terminal. Until earlier this year, the only reason I had Missouri is because I got stuck there overnight after a flight cancellation.
My rule is if I died while there and the death certificate would specify that county, it counts. Therefore, layovers count. OTOH, waving over a fence would not count, just like flying over a county does not count.
QuoteMSP in Hennepin County is a ridiculous walk...how many malls can you shove into one airport? And who laid out the terminals? No connections between them, use your feet and Run Forrest Run!
You must not've been there lately. There's a tram directly connecting Concourses A-D, there's a Concourse connector between A and G, and the Hiawatha LRT connects the Humphrey and Lindbergh Terminals (and is a free ride between the two).
^ that's what I get for following the crowd...walking from Terminal B to G was exercise I needed, but with 45 minutes between flights, minus 15 minutes of "no, you can't board", plus unfamiliar large airport equals me-looking-stupid.
I don't need a multi-million dollar facility to make me look stupid, because I can do it for a fraction of that!
that's still kind of insane, having the domestic and international terminals approximately five miles apart. I've missed a flight before, because I had to make that trip, and then go through customs and security.
Quote from: mukade on June 11, 2012, 11:05:20 PM
Quote from: DBrim on June 11, 2012, 06:33:22 PM
I don't count layovers as counties/states unless I leave the terminal. Until earlier this year, the only reason I had Missouri is because I got stuck there overnight after a flight cancellation.
My rule is if I died while there and the death certificate would specify that county, it counts. Therefore, layovers count. OTOH, waving over a fence would not count, just like flying over a county does not count.
A morbid rule, but a clever one, and the one I'll probably use when I make my own map. (I've got a road trip to Denver next week, although I'm not sure it will add any additional counties. I'll probably post a map after that.)
Quote from: Kacie Jane on June 12, 2012, 04:59:26 PM
A morbid rule, but a clever one, and the one I'll probably use when I make my own map. (I've got a road trip to Denver next week, although I'm not sure it will add any additional counties. I'll probably post a map after that.)
what if you died straddling the county line?
(to answer the inevitable follow-up question: what if you had
two fatal bullet wounds?)
I don't know how the Department of Health would handle it, but I would say yes -- if you get one foot, but not both, the county still counts.
Quotethat's still kind of insane, having the domestic and international terminals approximately five miles apart. I've missed a flight before, because I had to make that trip, and then go through customs and security.
A mile as the crow flies. 3.5 miles driving. A mile-and-a-quarter via the LRT, plus about 2000ft of walking.
It should also be noted that most Delta International flights go into the main Lindbergh terminal. The Humphrey terminal is mostly used by charter flights and the "low cost carriers", namely Sun Country, AirTran, and Southwest.
Quote from: froggie on June 12, 2012, 09:21:48 PM
3.5 miles driving.
I told the cab driver to step on it. He did his damn best, hitting 90mph on what I believe is MN-5 - if not, then some road with a sign for MN-5.
I had remembered, on my outbound flight, how long the transfer took: approximately 20 minutes by subway and foot. so I knew I had to beat that. I almost did.
I reiterate that it is insane for two terminals to be 20 minutes apart. even in such mega-airports like DFW and ATL, I can get from one end to the other faster than that.
Just for a change of pace, here's my Canada map:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2FCanada%2Fdaniel294.gif&hash=5c7264299e07478c30e1f12fa67511381e9f6a51)
I only have one county equivalent in Canada: Algoma District in Ontario (where Soo Ontario is).
Not sure where else to put this, but I figured I would share some information I've discovered when "retracing my steps":
Effingham County, GA exists along a tiny portion of I-95 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=effingham+county,+ga&hl=en&ll=32.332399,-81.315994&spn=0.354493,0.617294&sll=32.378222,-81.383972&sspn=0.354314,0.617294&hnear=Effingham,+Georgia&t=m&z=11), at the border between South Carolina and Georgia.
I-75 crosses over Cherokee County, GA (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cherokee+county,+ga&hl=en&ll=34.090483,-84.60228&spn=0.086861,0.154324&sll=32.750323,-84.001465&sspn=1.411355,2.469177&hnear=Cherokee,+Georgia&t=m&z=13) (there's even one exit).
I-75 also spans a very short (but signed) piece (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=crawford+county,+ga&hl=en&sll=32.332399,-81.315994&sspn=0.354493,0.617294&hnear=Crawford,+Georgia&t=m&z=11) of Crawford County, GA.
Florida's Turnpike crosses into Okeechobee County for a short stretch, before re-entering Indian River County for a few miles (signed).
Here's a rough map:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fmightyace.gif&hash=f739cce129cd240651484b5945f893c467bafc0d)
as far as I can tell, eastbound US-64 goes into Texas. westbound does not. the northwest corner of the Texas panhandle is almost exactly down the middle of the carriageway.
Mightyace, I see you only dipped down into South Carolina for York County. Was that intentional just to check off SC, or were you there for a reason?
No particular reason for asking, that's just my home county. :biggrin:
also mightyace...how did you get to New Orleans? The airport is definitely in Kenner which is Jefferson Parish... :biggrin:
Quote from: bassoon1986 on June 14, 2012, 10:01:30 PM
also mightyace...how did you get to New Orleans? The airport is definitely in Kenner which is Jefferson Parish... :biggrin:
Similarly, Durham NC? RDU airport is in Wake County.
Who is handling that Web site? I applied for an account more than a week ago and have yet to get a reply.
Quote from: the49erfan15 on June 14, 2012, 08:54:42 PM
Mightyace, I see you only dipped down into South Carolina for York County. Was that intentional just to check off SC, or were you there for a reason?
No particular reason for asking, that's just my home county. :biggrin:
My brother and I went to Carowinds which straddles the state line there.
EDIT: Combined posts
Quote from: dfilpus on June 14, 2012, 11:11:51 PM
Quote from: bassoon1986 on June 14, 2012, 10:01:30 PM
also mightyace...how did you get to New Orleans? The airport is definitely in Kenner which is Jefferson Parish... :biggrin:
Similarly, Durham NC? RDU airport is in Wake County.
I hadn't looked those up, I was just guessing.
I have corrected those to match their respective counties for the airports in question.
Quote from: brownpelican on June 15, 2012, 12:26:37 AM
Who is handling that Web site? I applied for an account more than a week ago and have yet to get a reply.
Funny, I got mine the same day.
Quote from: brownpelican on June 15, 2012, 12:26:37 AM
Who is handling that Web site? I applied for an account more than a week ago and have yet to get a reply.
That's strange, I applied after midnight on a week day and got a response within 30 seconds!
Quote from: formulanone on June 14, 2012, 03:33:38 PM
Not sure where else to put this, but I figured I would share some information I've discovered when "retracing my steps":
Effingham County, GA exists along a tiny portion of I-95 (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=effingham+county,+ga&hl=en&ll=32.332399,-81.315994&spn=0.354493,0.617294&sll=32.378222,-81.383972&sspn=0.354314,0.617294&hnear=Effingham,+Georgia&t=m&z=11), at the border between South Carolina and Georgia.
I-75 crosses over Cherokee County, GA (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cherokee+county,+ga&hl=en&ll=34.090483,-84.60228&spn=0.086861,0.154324&sll=32.750323,-84.001465&sspn=1.411355,2.469177&hnear=Cherokee,+Georgia&t=m&z=13) (there's even one exit).
I-75 also spans a very short (but signed) piece (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=crawford+county,+ga&hl=en&sll=32.332399,-81.315994&sspn=0.354493,0.617294&hnear=Crawford,+Georgia&t=m&z=11) of Crawford County, GA.
Florida's Turnpike crosses into Okeechobee County for a short stretch, before re-entering Indian River County for a few miles (signed).
That brings up some other questions I've had that I'll need to figure out when I do my map:
Does I-75 in Kentucky go through Owen County? It appears as though the SB lanes do but the NB lanes do not(I have been on I-75 in the area NB, but not SB).
Does I-74 in Indiana go through Rush County? I've seen slightly different results from different online maps-Bing Maps and MapQuest both make it look like it falls just outside of the county line, but OpenStreetMap makes it look like it does go just inside the lines.
Does the SB side of US 63/167 briefly enter Union Parish in Louisiana just after crossing the state line from Arkansas? The highway serves as the parish line before turning to the SE and entering Claiborne Parish, so I would assume that the SB side is in Union Parish(I have been on this road once, and it was SB).
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on June 15, 2012, 02:38:34 PM
Does I-75 in Kentucky go through Owen County? It appears as though the SB lanes do but the NB lanes do not(I have been on I-75 in the area NB, but not SB).
Does I-74 in Indiana go through Rush County? I've seen slightly different results from different online maps-Bing Maps and MapQuest both make it look like it falls just outside of the county line, but OpenStreetMap makes it look like it does go just inside the lines.
Does the SB side of US 63/167 briefly enter Union Parish in Louisiana just after crossing the state line from Arkansas? The highway serves as the parish line before turning to the SE and entering Claiborne Parish, so I would assume that the SB side is in Union Parish(I have been on this road once, and it was SB).
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/faq.html covers at least one of these questions, and some others people might have as well.
Quote from: DBrim on June 13, 2012, 07:21:30 AM
Just for a change of pace, here's my Canada map:
Good that you got a piece of Nunavut, something on my to-do list. Did you fly up there, or pick it up by a boat trip out of Quebec's Jamesie municipality (since Nunavut includes waters offshore from that municipality)?
Quote from: oscar on June 15, 2012, 03:38:52 PM
Quote from: DBrim on June 13, 2012, 07:21:30 AM
Just for a change of pace, here's my Canada map:
Good that you got a piece of Nunavut, something on my to-do list. Did you fly up there, or pick it up by a boat trip out of Quebec's Jamesie municipality (since Nunavut includes waters offshore from that municipality)?
The first step was driving to the end of James Bay road. From there, the cut-off past Chisasibi goes up to the waters of the James Bay. Since the border of Nunavut includes any islands offshore, we hopped onto a big rock about 5 feet offshore. Therefore, we were on an "island" in the James Bay and therefore in Nunavut. We were prepared to swim if necessary, but we deemed it unnecessary.
US 67 now goes through Craighead County, AR. If you have taken the new segment of freeway to where it ends at AR 226, you have been in Craighead County. Previously, US 67 did not enter the county.
Are there are any serious proposals for any new counties, secessions from existing counties, etc?
Quote from: lamsalfl on June 16, 2012, 02:20:30 AM
Are there are any serious proposals for any new counties, secessions from existing counties, etc?
A proposal for a new Petersburg borough in Alaska, to include most but not all of the existing Petersburg census area, received state approval earlier this month, but is subject to challenges by opponents and to local voter approval. I don't know whether the Census Bureau would keep the remainder of the census area (mainly Kake village and some adjacent areas, with a total population under a thousand) as a separate census area, or fold it into the Hoonah-Angoon census area. If a separate Kake census area is maintained, the U.S. county equivalent count will increase to 3,144 with the creation of the new Petersburg borough.
Juneau borough would also like a small piece of the Petersburg census area, and could get it in a separate proceeding, but the affected area has a lot of fish and glaciers but no people.
Alaska remains the place to look for additional county changes, but after the Petersburg borough is decided, and the 2007-2008 creations of Skagway and Wrangell boroughs, things might stabilize for a little while.
Quote from: lamsalfl on June 16, 2012, 02:20:30 AM
Are there are any serious proposals for any new counties, secessions from existing counties, etc?
There's been a proposal around for several years to reform Milton County, Georgia-which was folded into Fulton County back in the Depression era when Milton County went bankrupt. Milton County was the northern part of Fulton County-the southern part of Fulton County was Campbell County, which was made part of Fulton County around the same time(this is why Fulton County has a somewhat odd shape-it originally was roughly a mirror image of DeKalb County). There has not been any proposal to reform Campbell County that I know of, and the Milton County proposal seems to be stalled for now.
Finally found my password, so here's my updated map:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Falgorerhythms.gif&hash=ec9f0acf4ccc5793bc078d3a842efaf52f9af9b3)
Quote from: deanej on June 15, 2012, 11:05:44 AM
Quote from: brownpelican on June 15, 2012, 12:26:37 AM
Who is handling that Web site? I applied for an account more than a week ago and have yet to get a reply.
That's strange, I applied after midnight on a week day and got a response within 30 seconds!
Looks like my account hasn't been created. :eyebrow:
Maybe your email got caught by his spam filter?
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on June 16, 2012, 10:32:29 AM
Quote from: lamsalfl on June 16, 2012, 02:20:30 AM
Are there are any serious proposals for any new counties, secessions from existing counties, etc?
There's been a proposal around for several years to reform Milton County, Georgia-which was folded into Fulton County back in the Depression era when Milton County went bankrupt. Milton County was the northern part of Fulton County-the southern part of Fulton County was Campbell County, which was made part of Fulton County around the same time(this is why Fulton County has a somewhat odd shape-it originally was roughly a mirror image of DeKalb County). There has not been any proposal to reform Campbell County that I know of, and the Milton County proposal seems to be stalled for now.
Also, in Minnesota I came across a 2009 article about a proposed merger of two counties, and part of a third, in the St. Cloud area (http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/41746222.html). The bill to create the new county used "Lake Wobegon County" as a placeholder for the new county name, though I suspect that if the new county is ever created, local voters would just stick with that name, which is already used for at least a local trail.
I haven't followed up on this proposal, and don't know whether it or something similar is still being kicked around.
As I understand it, it died in the legislature.
There was another, relatively recent, proposal that made it to the 2000 general election. The plan was to split Pine County, MN in two, with the southern half (roughly from Hinckley and MN 48 south) becoming Pioneer County. The proposal was defeated by county voters in the election.
Quote from: formulanone on June 11, 2012, 05:37:34 PM
Some airport layovers are brutal enough that they darn well do count! I only have three of those.
PHX wasn't too bad in Maricopa County, per se...but a three hour wait.
MSP in Hennepin County is a ridiculous walk...how many malls can you shove into one airport? And who laid out the terminals? No connections between them, use your feet and Run Forrest Run!
I suppose landing in CVG and hanging out for 90 minutes doesn't count for much, but I did watch UK defeat Baylor to get into the Final Four (while waiting for my flight to LAX that was supposed to go out of ATL that day), which kind of validates your stay, along with the purchase of a bottled water.
I went to college in St Paul and I have to disagree with you about getting around MSP. I found it dead easy and there are moving walkways within the terminal. The only thing that was not connected to the main terminal the last time i was there was the HHH Terminal off Post Rd. I believe this has since been connected to the main terminal now.
My least favorite airports I have been to are LAX and Memphis. LAX was just way to big to walk between the terminals and Memphis had no moving walkways the last time I was there in '96.
Here is my map as of June 1. I don't know why the background is dark though. oh well.
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/hobsini.gif
Here is the table.
http://www.mob-rule.com/cgi-bin/makeuser.cgi?user=hobsini
Quote from: hobsini2 on June 17, 2012, 02:19:52 PM
Here is my map as of June 1. I don't know why the background is dark though. oh well.
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/hobsini.gif
The background is dark on my PC when I view it in Firefox. It's white when I view it in Internet Exploder. Try using a different browser.
The "background" in those gifs is transparent and it will show up as whatever the background color in the program you're viewing it with is set to. Note that if you embed it in the forum as an image it shows up as the off-white that's the background here. And if you view someone's embedded in the "recent posts" section while replying, it will show up as green if it's an even number of posts before yours, blue if it's in a quote, etc.
My British (administrative) counties.
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Visited is to spend some time there planned as the purpose of the trip.
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Have 555 more to go.
Well, I know in Delaware I have been to three. Anyone, who travels US 13 will go through all of Delaware's counties.
In my homestate, I finally did all 21 back in 1996.
In Florida, I did almost all of them, except Bradford and Union.
[insert Canada here after I figure out which counties I visited last century...]
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As of 2012 Jun 23:
| CA | 1/58 | CO | 10/64 |
| CT | 7/8 | DC | 1/1 |
| FL | 16/67 | GA | 24/159 |
| IA | 12/99 | ID | 8/44 |
| IL | 28/102 | IN | 29/92 |
| KS | 18/105 | KY | 33/120 |
| MA | 7/14 | ME | 9/16 |
| MI | 10/83 | MN | 12/87 |
| MO | 11/115 | MT | 15/56 |
| NC | 16/100 | NE | 15/93 |
| NH | 1/10 | NJ | 10/21 |
| NY | 9/62 | OH | 78/88 |
| PA | 36/67 | RI | 3/5 |
| SD | 12/66 | TN | 10/95 |
| TX | 2/254 | UT | 4/29 |
| VA | 10/134 | WI | 7/72 |
| WV | 8/55 | WY | 13/23 |
| USA | 485/3142 |
I know my count is missing some from a trip that went from the Space Coast up through the Carolinas back to Ohio, but I wasn't quite old enough to navigate yet. (I think I was about 5.) And I do count airport layovers, possibly to a greater extent than others. I count both Tarrant and Dallas counties in Texas because, while the DFW terminals are in Tarrant County, half the runways are in Dallas County, and I have been multiple times in an airplane using those Dallas County runways. But the way I see it, being in an airplane on a runway or taxiway in a county is just as good as being in a car on a highway in a county
Well, as the Extra Miler Club states, if your obituary can say you died in that county, that had to mean you were in it.
Quote from: vtk on June 23, 2012, 12:25:06 AM
[insert Canada here after I figure out which counties I visited last century...]
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As of 2012 Jun 23:
| CA | 1/58 | CO | 10/64 |
| CT | 7/8 | DC | 1/1 |
| FL | 16/67 | GA | 24/159 |
| IA | 12/99 | ID | 8/44 |
| IL | 28/102 | IN | 29/92 |
| KS | 18/105 | KY | 33/120 |
| MA | 7/14 | ME | 9/16 |
| MI | 10/83 | MN | 12/87 |
| MO | 11/115 | MT | 15/56 |
| NC | 16/100 | NE | 15/93 |
| NH | 1/10 | NJ | 10/21 |
| NY | 9/62 | OH | 78/88 |
| PA | 36/67 | RI | 3/5 |
| SD | 12/66 | TN | 10/95 |
| TX | 2/254 | UT | 4/29 |
| VA | 10/134 | WI | 7/72 |
| WV | 8/55 | WY | 13/23 |
| USA | 485/3142 |
I know my count is missing some from a trip that went from the Space Coast up through the Carolinas back to Ohio, but I wasn't quite old enough to navigate yet. (I think I was about 5.) And I do count airport layovers, possibly to a greater extent than others. I count both Tarrant and Dallas counties in Texas because, while the DFW terminals are in Tarrant County, half the runways are in Dallas County, and I have been multiple times in an airplane using those Dallas County runways. But the way I see it, being in an airplane on a runway or taxiway in a county is just as good as being in a car on a highway in a county
If you fly into Newark (EWR) you are in two counties: Union and Essex. Runways 4 and 22 (the two long ones) are in both. Teminal A is in Union, and the other two are in Essex. Try not to hail a cab at Terminal A as it is not in Newark proper and therefore city cabs cannot go there. Only neighboring Elizabeth (city that facility is located in Union County) local taxis you can find that are not as many as neighboring Newark.
Quote from: roadman65 on June 23, 2012, 09:26:38 AM
Runways 4 and 22 (the two long ones) are in both.
That sounds like one runway to me (runways are called differently based on which direction they are used in). Without checking an airport diagram, I'll suppose you mean runways 4L/22R and 4R/22L.
Quote from: bugo on June 09, 2012, 06:47:45 PM
I've gone out of my way to pick up a county once or twice in my life. The reason I set up an account is so that I can see where I've been on a map.
That's how I got into it, to display online more or less where I've been. Then I started taking side trips to fill holes in and pretty up my map, and things went crazy from there.
The Clinched Highway Mapping project, which lets you display your travels in a different way, came after I was firmly entrenched as a county-counter. Had CHM been available before I signed up with mob-rule.com in 2002, I might never have gotten into county-counting.
I have the same attitude towards non-NY counties that I have to state and US routes outside of NY (and major gaps in my clinched map): I don't really care (usually), but I'll keep track of them.
Quote from: oscar on June 23, 2012, 09:47:36 PM
Quote from: bugo on June 09, 2012, 06:47:45 PM
I've gone out of my way to pick up a county once or twice in my life. The reason I set up an account is so that I can see where I've been on a map.
That's how I got into it, to display online more or less where I've been. Then I started taking side trips to fill holes in and pretty up my map, and things went crazy from there.
The Clinched Highway Mapping project, which lets you display your travels in a different way, came after I was firmly entrenched as a county-counter. Had CHM been available before I signed up with mob-rule.com in 2002, I might never have gotten into county-counting.
I started that way, too. I had an RM atlas I highlighted routes I'd driven. Saw the EMC site and thought it'd be interesting to see what counties I had been in. Given the amount of roads I'd driven, felt I'd be way up the list. Turns out, I was barely in a quarter of all counties. so, as you did, I started filling in the map whenever I could to take away the blank spots.
Quote from: vtk on June 23, 2012, 12:25:06 AM
[insert Canada here after I figure out which counties I visited last century
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As of 2012 Jun 23:
| CA | 1/58 | CO | 10/64 |
| CT | 7/8 | DC | 1/1 |
| FL | 16/67 | GA | 24/159 |
| IA | 12/99 | ID | 8/44 |
| IL | 28/102 | IN | 29/92 |
| KS | 18/105 | KY | 33/120 |
| MA | 7/14 | ME | 9/16 |
| MI | 10/83 | MN | 12/87 |
| MO | 11/115 | MT | 15/56 |
| NC | 16/100 | NE | 15/93 |
| NH | 1/10 | NJ | 10/21 |
| NY | 9/62 | OH | 78/88 |
| PA | 36/67 | RI | 3/5 |
| SD | 12/66 | TN | 10/95 |
| TX | 2/254 | UT | 4/29 |
| VA | 10/134 | WI | 7/72 |
| WV | 8/55 | WY | 13/23 |
| USA | 485/3142 |
I know my count is missing some from a trip that went from the Space Coast up through the Carolinas back to Ohio, but I wasn't quite old enough to navigate yet. (I think I was about 5.) And I do count airport layovers, possibly to a greater extent than others. I count both Tarrant and Dallas counties in Texas because, while the DFW terminals are in Tarrant County, half the runways are in Dallas County, and I have been multiple times in an airplane using those Dallas County runways. But the way I see it, being in an airplane on a runway or taxiway in a county is just as good as being in a car on a highway in a county
The "OK, I admit it" must be a reference to Michigan.
Mine isn't that great either...25.6% visited
http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/hwyman14.gif
Quote from: vtk on June 23, 2012, 12:25:06 AM
And I do count airport layovers, possibly to a greater extent than others. I count both Tarrant and Dallas counties in Texas because, while the DFW terminals are in Tarrant County, half the runways are in Dallas County, and I have been multiple times in an airplane using those Dallas County runways. But the way I see it, being in an airplane on a runway or taxiway in a county is just as good as being in a car on a highway in a county
I count airport layovers the same way I count being on a ship in port without going ashore (or sailing the inland waters of a county without a landing); they're colored gray on my map to represent a "sort-of visited" status. I've since visited properly all of my previous airport layover counties, but I still have a lot of inland water visits, particularly for Canada.
Also, with a recent trip to Providence, I have now slept in every state I've visited, which is all but ND. And yes, it's somewhat intentional that that state will be my last; I actually took a trip to HI partly on that premise. :biggrin:
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Here is my map:
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I am very close to clinching Alabama, and it won't take too much for me to clinch MS and TN as well. I would love to get out west more often, though.
347 to 513 in one trip, including 13 new states. Well, that was productive!
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Indeed. Looks like you had fun around the Grand Canyon. The rest of southern Utah and southwest Colorado are well worth venturing into.
Quote from: Sykotyk on July 13, 2012, 11:29:17 PM
Indeed. Looks like you had fun around the Grand Canyon. The rest of southern Utah and southwest Colorado are well worth venturing into.
Wholeheartedly agree! Rent a Jeep in Ouray and hit the four-wheel drive roads.
Updated county maps as of July 2012.
Canada (though it is only greater Vancouver):
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USA:
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Wow, you're only 13 and I only have two more counties in the US than you do (and that's eastern counties, so they're a lot smaller than many of the ones you have!). I feel even more inadequate than this thread already made me feel.
Quote from: deanej on August 12, 2012, 12:18:02 PM
Wow, you're only 13 and I only have two more counties in the US than you do (and that's eastern counties, so they're a lot smaller than many of the ones you have!). I feel even more inadequate than this thread already made me feel.
Hate to make you feel worse, but here are the travels of my not-yet-3-year-old daughter:
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We'll have to get back to a lot of these places when she's old enough to remember them.
Mine's okay considering I'm only 17...
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I'm amazed at how well traveled everyone else here is compared to me... not sure how I'm supposed to fix that. I have a lot of roadtrips I'd like to do, but right now I'm in college with little money, and afterwards I'll be working with little time! I guess you have to have parents who take you to lots of different places (my family vacationed at the same place every year until I was around 10).
^^^
In my case, the trips to Wisconsin were because my mother's family was out there. (And the surviving family members still are.) South Dakota was a trip to see Mount Rushmore and to visit more family. And, Denver was a seminar my dad went to on sabbatical.
Since then, living a good distance from my parent helped. Plus, my NASCAR fandom has taken me to a few places I never would have gone to otherwise. (like North Carolina [Bristol and Charlotte], south Georgia and Florida [Daytona], east-central Indiana and west-central Ohio [Indianapolis])
Quote from: deanej on August 12, 2012, 10:30:49 PM
I'm amazed at how well traveled everyone else here is compared to me... not sure how I'm supposed to fix that. I have a lot of roadtrips I'd like to do, but right now I'm in college with little money, and afterwards I'll be working with little time! I guess you have to have parents who take you to lots of different places (my family vacationed at the same place every year until I was around 10).
It's not too difficult to get started in filling in the counties in your local area... just take weekend day trips where you only use one or two tanks of gas and then go back home. You can probably get your entire state done this way if you get counties done in manageable, cheap chunks. Another way to pick up counties is to just take different routes to places. I had to drive between the OKC area and Springfield MO, where I went to school, so once I got bored of I-44 I started taking less sensible routes (like US-160 to US-169 to I-44, or US-60 to US-69 to I-40) just for something different to do. That let me get a lot of the counties in eastern OK, southeast KS, and southwest MO (and a few in northwest AR). I filled in even more counties by applying the same strategy when we went to visit relatives in Kansas City.
The problem happens when you hit the wall where you have no unvisited counties within several hours' drive. However it is still
possible to do this on a budget, if not exactly comfortable.
QuoteI'm amazed at how well traveled everyone else here is compared to me... not sure how I'm supposed to fix that. I have a lot of roadtrips I'd like to do, but right now I'm in college with little money, and afterwards I'll be working with little time! I guess you have to have parents who take you to lots of different places (my family vacationed at the same place every year until I was around 10).
My trick has been to move every couple years and thoroughly explore the area I'm in. When I lived in Washington, I just started clinching highways and eventually drove every mile of state highway in Washington. The whole state was a day drive away, so I could just take a bunch of loops and get most of it. The rest I got by just taking different routes every time I'd drive home to Idaho.
Same deal with Wyoming. And then Arizona. Now I've driven the entire highway system in three states (I still need 286 in Arizona, but I'm going to get that next week) without doing much more than just taking day trips and taking different routes on drives I needed to do anyway.
In the past couple years since I've been making a little bit more money (but working an average of 45 hours a week while going to school full time) with less time, I've taken to taking one or two big trips a year, but even those are only about four days long and I just drive as far away as possible on interesting roads and turn around and come back (functionally this has become my annual trek to Texas/Oklahoma, exploring different parts of those states every time). Last month, one of my jobs furloughed me for a month since we were between projects and school was out too, so I took my savings and just drove all month, popping in on weekends to work 30 hours at my other job. Unfortunately, that'll be all the driving I really do this year, but it was enough for me to finish the Arizona highway system.
Being kind of a nerd, I don't go out to bars all that often and run up big tabs and stuff- it's amazing how much more money I seem to have compared to peers in my same financial situation since I don't buy much more alcohol/other substances than a 12 pack a week or so. I'm also too busy working to spend money on frivolous things, so my roadtrip budget exists even though I'm going to school full time.
I'm hoping once I don't have to pay for school next year and am hopefully just working one career job, I'll be able to seriously ramp up the driving.
But yeah, moving every two years helps when you're young. As soon as I graduate here in December, I'm going to be looking to go to any state but Washington, Wyoming, or Arizona. With the economy the way it is, I'll take what I can get, but I figure there has to be something in one of those 46 other states (I'd rather not do Hawaii either- I think I'd get island fever).
Arizona 13/15 + 1 Lost County (Lost in 1871) Pah-Ute (Now Clark County, Nevada)
Being paid to tour the country has helped my map quite a huge amount, but there are a few major chunks in there that were due to personal travel (being engaged to a Californian also tends to add to an Easterner's county count!).
Quote from: empirestate on August 13, 2012, 06:59:24 PM
Being paid to tour the country has helped my map quite a huge amount, but there are a few major chunks in there that were due to personal travel (being engaged to a Californian also tends to add to an Easterner's county count!).
Heh, being married to a Californian who has a sister in Alaska has certainly helped me along. Along with corco's idea, I did 6 states in 12 years, along with a huge appetite for day trips. Now I just need to fill out the map...
In my case I was out of college before this was something I even thought to concern myself with (probably never would have if I didn't know other people were doing it). Since then, I've pulled in a decent amount of mileage and counties traveling to and from road meets... but then I've also taken some unrelated road trips, a couple of which went pretty far afield. Yes, having a job means you can't do this constantly, but you do get vacation days, weekends, and holidays you can put to use.
Yeah, I'm hoping that road meets will help with traveling once I get a job and can actually stay overnight. Not sure how vacation time will work though; my family used to take a week long vacation each year (in 2007 we took two because it was my parent's 20th anniversary), and though that's subsided, we might start doing that again after I graduate (I was thinking that Ottawa and/or Montreal could be fun). Maybe if I'm smarter I could turn these into clinching opportunities; I've been kicking myself over not asking my parents to borrow the car when we were relaxing in the hotel in DC (I could have clinched the DC area freeways...).
Also hoping to get a group of friends and do stuff with them, though I'm not sure if I'll be successful in that endeavor.
My list of Mexican municipalities:
BAJA CALIFORNIA
Tijuana
CHIHUAHUA
Ahumada
Batopilas
Bocoyna
Chihuahua
Cuauhtémoc
Gran Morelos
Guachochi
Guerrero
Juárez
Manuel Benavides
Santa Isabel
COAHUILA
Anáhuac
General Cepeda
Ocampo
Parras
Ramos Arizpe
Saltillo
JALISCO
Hostotipaquillo
Magdalena
Puerto Vallarta
San Sebastián del Oeste
Tequila
NAYARIT
Ahuacatlán
BahÃa de Banderas
Compostela
Ixtlán del RÃo
Jala
San Blas
San Pedro Lagunillas
Santa MarÃa del Oro
NUEVO LEÃ"N
Ciénega de Flores
GarcÃa
General Escobedo
General Zuazua
Sabinas Hidalgo
Salinas Victoria
Santa Catarina
Vallecillo
Possibly 1 or 2 others: some municipal boundaries run along the highway
TAMAULIPAS
Guerrero
Nuevo Laredo
Key
Driving
By bus
By other means (on foot, by boat, etc.)
I do not know my municipalities of Mexico. anyone have a map?
I've been to Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California. that's it.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on August 14, 2012, 06:44:44 PM
I do not know my municipalities of Mexico. anyone have a map?
I've been to Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California. that's it.
The easiest way is to browse on Bing Maps. On their more zoomed-in levels, the municipal boundaries are marked.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 12, 2012, 11:46:10 PM
The problem happens when you hit the wall where you have no unvisited counties within several hours' drive. However it is still possible to do this on a budget, if not exactly comfortable.
Or get a job which flings you out to another out-of-state location every week or two, and offers a rental car. :nod:
Being stuck in the cul-de-sac of the US makes things tricky, so a great deal of my map was created before I was of legal driving age, since my immediate family moved every 2-3 years. Then I get a license, buy a car, go to school, live on my own...but then there's no money left over for anything more than an in-state jaunt once or twice a month. But in time, travel gets a bit more "affordable".
Quote from: Jim on August 12, 2012, 09:27:13 PM
Hate to make you feel worse, but here are the travels of my not-yet-3-year-old daughter:
Don't know how you've done it, but my 5-year-old daughter is hard to keep quiet for more than a single-day of travel, although a little more patient than when she was 3. A couple of hours to Disney World? No problem. Taking the scenic route? Fine. Sometimes, she'll even read off the road numbers (no, I didn't teach her that). But by the second day, she's tested everyone's patience and gets noisy. Ideally, if you stop frequently enough, it probably works better but that's really time-consuming, even in ideal conditions.
Good for you, though.
Quote from: formulanone on August 14, 2012, 11:45:03 PM
Quote from: Jim on August 12, 2012, 09:27:13 PM
Hate to make you feel worse, but here are the travels of my not-yet-3-year-old daughter:
Don't know how you've done it, but my 5-year-old daughter is hard to keep quiet for more than a single-day of travel ...
We've been lucky on that, though it helps that she's been used to long road trips starting at about 4 months old. It's just one of the things we do as far as she is concerned. And a portable DVD player helps too.
For my own travels, it has been enabled by a lot of fortunate factors. I grew up in a family that took a lot of road trips. Then in grad school I was able to do a bit more with some flexible summers and otherwise low-expense living (with roommates in a cheap apartment). Then as college faculty, I've been able to get to a few conferences a year. Sometimes I can drive to them (even if further away during summer months), but even when I fly I try to arrange to have an extra day and a rental car to do some exploring. It also helps that I married someone from Florida, so we make trips up and down the east coast a couple times a year and have pretty much explored every reasonable alternative to I-95 (and some not-so-reasonable ones too).
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Don't know how you've done it, but my 5-year-old daughter is hard to keep quiet for more than a single-day of travel, although a little more patient than when she was 3. A couple of hours to Disney World? No problem. Taking the scenic route? Fine. Sometimes, she'll even read off the road numbers (no, I didn't teach her that). But by the second day, she's tested everyone's patience and gets noisy. Ideally, if you stop frequently enough, it probably works better but that's really time-consuming, even in ideal conditions.
Good for you, though.
Kids are different. We moved 560 miles when our elder son was three weeks old. His temperament is very mild, and we've never had any trouble with him in the car. He's been with us to México four times, Minnesota probably at least nine times, and various shorter trips every year. He's now 4½ and turning into a little roadgeek.
Our younger son has had a much longer learning curve. Our first long-distance trip with him was to Minesota, 670 miles each way. The last hour and half were miserable, but he was unexpectedly better on the return trip. There have been more than one trip where we've had to get him out of his seat and keep him in mama's lap–even when the drive was less than an hour and a half. Part of that was the necessity of breastfeeding, but much of it was simply him screaming. At almost two years old, he's now much more used to riding in the car. We don't fear it anymore. This past June was his second trip with us to México, and he did just great–much better, in fact, than he did out of the car once we were there.
We do make a habit of eating in the restaurant, rather than driving through. If we're in a hurry, we'll drive through for one meal, but never for both. It also can help to stop at a rest area and just let the kids run around for twenty minutes.
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So, I've started building my U.S. map that y'all seem to have. Man, that's time-consuming! I have four states done, and I'm beat for now. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it over the next week or so. Part of the problem is that I'm also mapping counties I've traveled through by rail, and it's hard to find the exact routes for Amtrak in between stations.
Might as well post mine...
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2Fvdeane.gif&hash=10a4112810d28720caf08db81c17de62a82aac0b)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mob-rule.com%2Fcounties%2Fuser-gifs%2FCanada%2Fvdeane.gif&hash=1fe989b414be04e5e5cfca3113fef877fb2cb365)
So what is the difference between "Clinched" and "Visited" on your map?
A clinched county simply means that I've been on every part of every CHM-eligible route in the county. In the US this is Interstates, US routes, state routes, and select freeways. For Canada it's freeways, provincial routes, and the trans-canada highway.
The fact that I have four counties clinched in Ontario is thanks to the downloading of the late 90s. For many of the municipalities, traveling on 401 through the area is enough to count it as "clinched".
Quote from: deanej on August 18, 2012, 10:22:34 AM
A clinched county simply means that I've been on every part of every CHM-eligible route in the county. In the US this is Interstates, US routes, state routes, and select freeways. For Canada it's freeways, provincial routes, and the trans-canada highway.
Nice idea. Now you've made me think about which counties I can claim that to be true. Not many, I'm guessing. Possibly just Montgomery, Fulton, and Rensselaer counties of NY. Maybe some out west where I have travelled the only US or Interstate in a county in states that CHM hasn't covered state routes yet.
Quote from: Jim on August 18, 2012, 12:36:51 PM
Quote from: deanej on August 18, 2012, 10:22:34 AM
A clinched county simply means that I've been on every part of every CHM-eligible route in the county. In the US this is Interstates, US routes, state routes, and select freeways. For Canada it's freeways, provincial routes, and the trans-canada highway.
Nice idea. Now you've made me think about which counties I can claim that to be true. Not many, I'm guessing. Possibly just Montgomery, Fulton, and Rensselaer counties of NY. Maybe some out west where I have travelled the only US or Interstate in a county in states that CHM hasn't covered state routes yet.
Based on that definition, I have eight clinched counties, all in Georgia: DeKalb, Clayton, Henry, Butts, Spalding, Newton, Rockdale, and Walton, with Fayette falling just short.
And I have four: Fairfield (CT), New York (NY), Bronx (NY), and Richmond (NY).
Finishing Kings (NY) and Queens (NY) is on my to do list, there are just a few pieces of surface street touring route I haven't driven. I also almost have Hudson (NJ), but I'm missing a piece of NJ 7 there.
I think I've clinched only one county (unless independent cities count), that being Charles City County, VA. There are several that I'm close to clinching: Prince George County, VA (need the segment of VA 35 south of SR 637); Dinwiddie County, VA (VA 357 and part of VA 319); Chesterfield County, VA (VA 324 and VA 339, both only partially clinchable due to their private segments); Henrico County, VA (US 301/VA 2); Sussex County, VA (VA 35) and Currituck County, NC (NC 3 136).
FWIW... If anyone else on here is building their counties map to include rail travel, I've found Bing Maps to be a good one to use: it shows both railroads and county lines, without too many breaks in the county lines.
I'm very close to clinching Essex (MA), Rockingham (NH), and York (ME), and I have clinched pretty much all the independent cities in Southeastern Virginia, plus Gloucester, Mathews, Isle of Wight, York, James City, and possibly Charles City and Surry counties.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2012, 09:47:29 AM
FWIW... If anyone else on here is building their counties map to include rail travel, I've found Bing Maps to be a good one to use: it shows both railroads and county lines, without too many breaks in the county lines.
I've also found the stops on current Amtrak schedules to be helpful, in nailing down which rails you probably traveled. Amtrak routes, and rail lines, seem to change slowly if at all.
Come to think of it I suppose I can say I also have a fifth county completely "clinched": Dukes County, MA. I have been there and I have driven all 0 miles of numbered highway there!
I'm pretty sure I've done every state, US, interstate, and county highway in San Diego County. there's probably a few old alignments I'm missing, like bypassed bridges, or city routings that I don't know about.
I don't believe I can claim this for any other county. I wish I could for Los Angeles county but I haven't gotten nearly all of the old alignments.
Not even Union County, NM??
Hmmm, I've clinched: Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Hendry, Glades, Okeechobee, Highlands, and Alachua in Florida; I'm missing just a few county road segments in about five or six others.
I don't think I've "clinched" any counties. Even in my home of Franklin County, I'm probably missing little chunks of state routes 256, 605, and/or 674. I might even be missing short bits of US routes 33, 40, and/or 62 on the east side. I don't keep track of things, so I really can't be certain.
I've clinched counties in CHM (including all state primary routes) in both Michigan and North Carolina.
Michigan: Alcona, Alpena, Emmett, Iosco
North Carolina: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford, Lee, Orange, Person, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Vance, Wake, Yadkin
I haven't bothered to account for counties in states where the state primary routes aren't in CHM yet.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 20, 2012, 09:44:46 PM
Not even Union County, NM??
not even close. a lot of dirt two-tracks are maintained, numbered, and signed by the county. Union County, NM is a very tough clinch without a 4x4.
I updated my map days ago, yet my updates aren't reflected on my nationwide maps. Each state I've edited shows the correct visited/unvisited counties, but the nationwide map doesn't match them.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2012, 10:27:07 AM
I updated my map days ago, yet my updates aren't reflected on my nationwide maps. Each state I've edited shows the correct visited/unvisited counties, but the nationwide map doesn't match them.
It usually takes a day or twelve for your national map to update. It's stored on the server, rather than generated upon request, probably because people like to hotlink the national maps on forums like this one.
It is also possible that your map is stored in your browser cache. Try doing a hard refresh (on Firefox this is accomplished with Ctrl+Shift+F).
I've noticed there is 5-10 minute delay between your additions and the map image.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 22, 2012, 12:14:35 PM
It is also possible that your map is stored in your browser cache. Try doing a hard refresh (on Firefox this is accomplished with Ctrl+Shift+F).
Using Chrome these days.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2012, 05:57:56 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 22, 2012, 12:14:35 PM
It is also possible that your map is stored in your browser cache. Try doing a hard refresh (on Firefox this is accomplished with Ctrl+Shift+F).
Using Chrome these days.
In that case it is Shift+F5.
This is a handy reference page for anyone else who has an insatiable need to bypass their cache:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache