Flyovers don't count. You must set foot on the ground or at least drive through. Airports count.
27 for me. All states west of the Mississippi except Wash, Ore, Hawaii, Arkansas, and to the east only Wis, Mich, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tenn, Ga. Hoping to get to all 50 by age 50, thats 23 states in 8 years but the small eastern states can be done quickly.
I have done all 50. shortest time I've done it in was 10 months (Hawaii May '09, Alaska March '10). I've done 44 in three weeks, missing only Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Florida, and Georgia.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 01:18:42 PM
I have done all 50. shortest time I've done it in was 10 months (Hawaii May '09, Alaska March '10). I've done 44 in three weeks, missing only Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Florida, and Georgia.
Don't I feel like an amateur now?
I've been to 16+DC. But that's pretty good since I'm only 15 years old :)
I've been to 44. The only ones I lack are the 4 northernmost New England States(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont) plus Alaska and Hawaii. I'm also about 1/3 of the way through the counties(I haven't counted them up in awhile, so I don't have an exact number).
I've been to 28. My ambition is to do all the lower 48. Unfortunately most of my recent trips have taken me to states I've already visited.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 19, 2011, 02:01:26 PM
I've been to 44. The only ones I lack are the 4 northernmost New England States(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont) plus Alaska and Hawaii...
I wonder out of how many of us who have been to less than 50 would includes Alaska and/or Hawaii? These will almost certainly be the two states I will never visit.
30 + DC. Not bad for being 26.
I got my 37th state (North Carolina) at age fifteen, and my 38th state (South Carolina) at age twenty-seven. I haven't picked up a new one since, in eleven years and about two weeks.
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 02:07:17 PM
I've been to 28. My ambition is to do all the lower 48. Unfortunately most of my recent trips have taken me to states I've already visited.
I take it that it's business that a) brings you to the US, but 2) allows for free time to explore?
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 02:07:17 PM
I've been to 28. My ambition is to do all the lower 48. Unfortunately most of my recent trips have taken me to states I've already visited.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 19, 2011, 02:01:26 PM
I've been to 44. The only ones I lack are the 4 northernmost New England States(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont) plus Alaska and Hawaii...
I wonder out of how many of us who have been to less than 50 would includes Alaska and/or Hawaii? These will almost certainly be the two states I will never visit.
North Dakota might be another state often missed by people who've otherwise covered most of the lower-48 states (though I've heard of people who've been to Alaska and Hawaii, but not South Dakota -- go fig).
ND was my last lower-48 state visited, in 1994 on my way to Alaska. Hawaii came five years later.
33 plus DC. Also 7 Canadian provinces (missing Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba).
My 33 include Alaska and Hawaii (and Idaho) but not California. I'm missing CA, OR, WA, NV, AZ, NM, MT, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MO, IA, WI, IN, and KY. I'll probably get to AZ in the next few years since my wife's brother lives there.
Idaho and Wyoming were football trips.
I actually got Hawaii in Dec '05, and North Dakota in Jun '06 (part of that run of 44). then Alaska in Sept '07 to finish things off.
for Canada, I am missing Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories. I should hopefully grab Northwest Territories this September with my planned run from Edmonton to Yellowknife.
I do have Nunavut, if the official surveying is to be believed: past Chisasibi, all of James Bay's water belongs to Nunavut, while the land is Quebec. So I hopped onto the first rock. This was at low tide, so I figure at worst I overestimated how far out I had to go.
Google Maps shows the boundary very roughly traced, with some of the land being shown to be in Nunavut. I believe this is just a rendering error - but, if it is accurate, then I got to one of those pieces of land too.
My total is 45 (contrary to the instructions in the OP, I am not counting airport stopovers). The states I am missing are HI, LA, AL, GA, and WI.
Edit: I do not think it is all that unusual for "under-fifties" to have AK or HI but not both, since for people in the continental US they tend to be once-in-a-lifetime vacation destinations. In my case the total has remained unchanged since 2004. The last state I visited for the first time was AK in the summer of 2004, as part of a two-week excursion with two friends. That was the first addition since 2000. In reverse order by time of first visit, the last few states I have collected are: AK (2004), UT, ID, MT, ND, WY (all 2000), MI, and AZ (both 1998). Previously to that I picked up a bunch of states in the upper South and Old Northwest by driving from Wichita to summer jobs in North Carolina and metropolitan DC. Most of the rest have been as a result of family travel.
Quote from: oscar on July 19, 2011, 03:05:10 PM
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 02:07:17 PM
I've been to 28. My ambition is to do all the lower 48. Unfortunately most of my recent trips have taken me to states I've already visited.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 19, 2011, 02:01:26 PM
I've been to 44. The only ones I lack are the 4 northernmost New England States(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont) plus Alaska and Hawaii...
I wonder out of how many of us who have been to less than 50 would includes Alaska and/or Hawaii? These will almost certainly be the two states I will never visit.
North Dakota might be another state often missed by people who've otherwise covered most of the lower-48 states (though I've heard of people who've been to Alaska and Hawaii, but not South Dakota -- go fig).
ND was my last lower-48 state visited, in 1994 on my way to Alaska. Hawaii came five years later.
North Dakota was my 44th state-I got it 7 years ago and I haven't been to a new once since. Alaska is on the top of the list of states I would like to visit next, but it may be awhile before I make it there.
Only 14 states here. All of the east coast south of Massachusetts and a handful of inland states.
MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, PA, MD, WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL.
Will have ME, VT and NH done by the end of this summer, and I certainly hope I'm afforded the opportunity to travel more a few years down the road.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 01:18:42 PM
I have done all 50. shorteust time I've done it in was 10 months (Hawaii May '09, Alaska March '10). I've done 44 in three weeks, missing only Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Florida, and Georgia.
Okay, you win...what's your job (spare us the "but I'd have to kill" you schtick)? :)
28 states for me. Pretty much did the entire Eastern Seaboard by the time I was 10, which sort of started off my roadgeek-ery from a young age. I'm missing a lot of western states: ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, MD (+ DC), DE, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, TN, KY, MS, LA, AR, TX, IL, MI, NV, CA, WA.
EDIT: Now I can include MO, OH, and OK...31 in total.
Let's see...every east coast state except RI + the south across to Texas:
ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, NY, PA, DE, NJ, MD, VA, WV, OH, NC, SC, GA, FL, TN, AL, MS, LA, TX, AR (23 total)
I've been to 25. With the exception of Hawaii, Gillette, Wyoming is the furthest west I've ever gone. My goal is before I die to tour (in some depth) all of the states. Each state has its own history, culture, and distinction. I love traveling the states.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 02:58:13 PM
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 02:07:17 PM
I've been to 28. My ambition is to do all the lower 48. Unfortunately most of my recent trips have taken me to states I've already visited.
I take it that it's business that a) brings you to the US, but 2) allows for free time to explore?
No, all my visits are purely leisure. The only time I've been abroad on work was in France a few years ago.
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 05:02:34 PM
No, all my visits are purely leisure. The only time I've been abroad on work was in France a few years ago.
oh, gotcha. then by what criteria do you decide where to go? since you're lamenting hitting the same states over and over again, I assume some states just don't hold your interest?
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 05:05:44 PM
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 05:02:34 PM
No, all my visits are purely leisure. The only time I've been abroad on work was in France a few years ago.
oh, gotcha. then by what criteria do you decide where to go? since you're lamenting hitting the same states over and over again, I assume some states just don't hold your interest?
I'm a member of this (http://nia.org/) organisation so it depends which shows I choose to attend. I tend to go to the same ones each year.
You guys have put me to shame. I have only been to sixteen states and the District of Columbia, thus-far.
CT, DE, DC, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV
When I was in Wytheville, VA to visit friends back when I was in college, I could have also added NC or TN. But like usual, I ended up traveling on a strict timetable. :-/
^^ DC and VA are two of the states I've yet to do.
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 05:19:02 PM
^^ DC and VA are two of the states I've yet to do.
You mean "one of the states and a territory"!!!!
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 02:07:17 PM
I've been to 28. My ambition is to do all the lower 48. Unfortunately most of my recent trips have taken me to states I've already visited.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 19, 2011, 02:01:26 PM
I've been to 44. The only ones I lack are the 4 northernmost New England States(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont) plus Alaska and Hawaii...
I wonder out of how many of us who have been to less than 50 would includes Alaska and/or Hawaii? These will almost certainly be the two states I will never visit.
When I worked for Holiday gas station they bought 26 stores in Alaska, and I got to work up there for 2 weeks in 2004. Actually was what prompted the 50 goal.
I have visited:
AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, IL, MO, MS, MD, OH, PA, TN, WV, VA
48, missing the obvious two. Been to 2,516 counties (clinched WA, OR, CA, ID, NV, NM, CO, WY, KS, OK, TX, LA, MS, OH, DE, CT, and VT).
http://counties.visitedmap.com/us.php?showmap=842&big=&force=
4 (or 5 including Airports):
AZ, CA, FL, NV (and MI for a stop over at DTW).
But then I live rather a long way away from any US state, and have only crossed the Atlantic 4 times each way (FL '97, MI+FL '03, CA+NV+AZ '03, CA+NV '08).
All but MN, ND, MS, GA, NJ, CT, RI, and AK. So what is that, 42?
I've never been to HI, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA. So that makes 42 states. At this point, the Southeast will probably have to wait for retirement.
23 + DC. All are east of or along I-65 except for CA, CO, and TX (and those last two are airports only). Those three also happen to be my most recent additions, all on the same trip last July.
EDIT: The full list (with first and most recent years):
GA (1987, 2011)
AL (early '90s, 2011)
FL (early '90s, 2011)
TN (mid-'90s, 2011)
SC (1997, 2011)
NC (1997, 2011)
VA (1997, 2011)
WV (1997, 2011)
OH (1997)
PA (1997, 2010)
DC (2006, 2011)
MD (2007, 2011)
DE (2007, 2010)
NJ (2007, 2010)
NY (2010)
CT (2010)
MA (2010)
NH (2010)
ME (2010)
VT (2010)
RI (2010)
TX (2010 [airport only])
CA (2010)
CO (2010 [airport only])
I was at 47 for a while, then got ND as #48 on the way to AK, #49, in 2001. In 2006, it was pretty obvious that Hawaii needed to be our honeymoon destination to complete the set.
If anyone cares to see the details, I have tracked, to the best of my knowledge, my first and most recent visits to each state, and whether I have done a variety of things in that state (visiting the capital, stayed overnight, driven there on a trip starting at home, walked in, gone skiing there, seen a baseball game there, etc).
http://www.teresco.org/pics/states.txt (http://www.teresco.org/pics/states.txt)
These extras (along with county counting and clinched highway mapping) have given me some goals since I completed my set of states. In fact, I was just able to pick up a new entry yesterday when I drove from Boston to the Pheasant Lane Mall in South Nashua, NH, to buy a tax-free iPad. I parked in a lot in MA and walked into the mall, which is entirely in NH. So I added a "W" notation to NH, in addition to updating my most recent visit to 2011.
This is arranged by state, first visit, and most recent visit (if only one year is listed, I've only been there once)
DC: 2001
FL: 1993, 2010
GA: 2002, 2009
IL: 2003, 2005
IN: 1998, 2009
KY: 1998, 2009
MD: 2001
MI: Lived there entire life (1992)
MN: 2000
OH: 1994, 2006 (going back in less than two weeks)
ON: 2002
PA: 2001
TN: 2002, 2009
VA: 2001
WI: 2000
WV: 1998, 2001
14 states, DC, and one province.
I've been to NC, SC, VA, WV, FL, GA and OH.
47 - missing AK, HI and MI.
Because I don't fly, Hawaii may never get done but I am driving to Alaska as my retirement gift in 8-10 yrs...
Mapmikey
IL: Always lived there (born 1995)
WI: 1999, 2011
MN: 1999
IN: 2000, 2011
OH: 2000, 2011
KY: 2000, 2011
TN: 2000, 2011
NC: 2000
SC: 2000
GA: 2000, 2011
FL: 2000, 2011
MI: 2001, 2003
PA: 2011
MD: 2011
WV: 2011
DC: 2011
VA: 2011
Been to all but Alaska. Overnighted in all but 9: AR, CT, KS, NH, MT, ND, RI, SD and WI.
Got my 9yo son 25 + DC so far.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg695.imageshack.us%2Fimg695%2F2576%2Fstatemapjul11.png&hash=f202e2d46a0fdb1026bb8c957762874bf7cc4a9d)
CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV
So, 19 + DC.
20 if you count Georgia (one of my flights to Florida had a stop in Atlanta, but I didn't get off the plane, so I don't count it).
Add to that Ontario and Quebec and that's all of the entire world I've seen.
Expansion plans are, of course, naturally always cooking.
I may have an opportunity to drive to Florida this fall (all my previous trips there were on a plane), which means adding South Carolina and Georgia and, if I get to joyride *a bit* as I'd like, Tennessee as well.
I just got back from my Cincinnati trip with my father which got me Kentucky and Indiana, current rumbling is that next summer we may go to Chicago, thus adding Illinois and Wisconsin (and possibly also Michigan).
I've been to all of the lower 48. Got the last 5 in 2010 (WY, MT, & ID in May, WA & OR in July)
Off the top of my head:
CA, AR, GA, MI, MO, TN, VA, WV, TX, LA, SC, NC, OH, OK, AZ, NV
Oh, how I miss I-81 and I-77 through Virgina/West Virginia.
Quote from: Riverside Frwy on July 19, 2011, 11:07:02 PM
Off the top of my head:
CA, AR, GA, MI, MO, TN, VA, WV, TX, LA, SC, NC, OH, OK, AZ, NV
Oh, how I miss I-81 and I-77 through Virgina/West Virginia.
All 50 for me and the territory of Guam.
Yeah, I always enjoyed that ride up 77 & 81, even if I was in a 80K lb truck going 25mph uphill :banghead:, at least the scenery was nice :nod:
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Delaware, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia.
38 States (and D.C)
Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec in Canada
49 states. Missing Hawaii. 23 years old.
Canada: B.C., Yukon, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut, New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia.
Countries: U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Iceland.
Just a few:
CA, DE, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MS, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, WA, WI, WV, + DC
Internationally, I've also been to Canada, Italy, Netherlands, San Marino, and the Vatican.
Quote from: Jim on July 19, 2011, 08:35:25 PM
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These extras (along with county counting and clinched highway mapping) have given me some goals since I completed my set of states. In fact, I was just able to pick up a new entry yesterday when I drove from Boston to the Pheasant Lane Mall in South Nashua, NH, to buy a tax-free iPad. I parked in a lot in MA and walked into the mall, which is entirely in NH. So I added a "W" notation to NH, in addition to updating my most recent visit to 2011.
This comment makes me wonder if anyone here has visited the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line, Vermont. The building straddles the border. You enter the building in Vermont, and most of the seats are in Vermont, but the book collection and the opera stage, as well as about half the seats, are in Quebec.
I wonder when the "Homeland Security" people will try to shut it down.
Quote from: Mapmikey on July 19, 2011, 09:44:50 PM
47 - missing AK, HI and MI.
Because I don't fly, Hawaii may never get done but I am driving to Alaska as my retirement gift in 8-10 yrs...
Mapmikey
Two words for you: Cruise ship!
I believe I am up to 44+DC. My "unvisited states" are Alaska, Oregon, Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Most recently added was Kansas in 2007.
28 + DC
I have just NY, MA, RI, PA, MD, VA, DC, VT, NH, and ME. Also will have CT by the end of the week and NJ within a month due to road meets as well as ON and QC in Canada. Technically I also have CA and possibly others due to airport connections but I don't count it as I was only a few months old at the time.
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 09:16:19 AM
This comment makes me wonder if anyone here has visited the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line, Vermont. The building straddles the border. You enter the building in Vermont, and most of the seats are in Vermont, but the book collection and the opera stage, as well as about half the seats, are in Quebec.
I wonder when the "Homeland Security" people will try to shut it down.
trust me, they've got an eye on you. I once walked 5 feet into Canada to take a picture of a stop/arret sign and received 4 hours of interrogation for my troubles, starting with the highly presumptuous "who are you here to pick up?"
It's a pretty awful way to start an interrogation. the correct first question would be "whom are you here to pick up?" I mean, if you're going to be an officious hosebag, play the part accurately!
States:
41 + DC and Guam
Provinces:
Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Countries:
Saudi Arabia (for 1 night), Egypt (for 5 hrs), Spain, Iceland, UK, Japan (Okinawa), South Korea, Philippines
Missing states:
ME (by .5 miles), MA, RI, CT, NC, SC, MS, LA, AR (Air Force drop-in but didn't leave the airfield) [I don't include airport stop-overs in my state count].
--Andy
22 states so far. Mostly in the West and Midwest with one trip to Alabama to mix it up. I've spent the night in 16 of those 22.
And though it doesn't affect my state count, just being in an airport absolutely does NOT count as visiting a state. You have to leave that airport or at the very least, walk around outside the terminal. This is the long standing tradition and I will continue to uphold it.
Been to only eight:
CA, AZ, NV, NM, TX, LA, IL and WI.
(Hope to add MS, AL, GA and TN in the next couple of years)
Driven in: MS, NM, LA, AL, FL, TX, GA, TN, KY, IN, IL (first time driving in the state in order from earliest to latest)
I've driven in every state that I have ever set foot in. I've also slept at least one night in every state above (except for IN). Though of note is that I have never clinched an entire roadway (like a major one from state-line to state-line) in one trip without stopping with the exception of northbound I-65 in Kentucky. (And I-10 both directions in Alabama for obvious reasons (it's so short). I always make a stop in Biloxi (hometown)). And if you count the four or so miles of I-24 in GA, you can count both directions clinched in one fell swoop. Hah.
I have been to 47 states. Only ones left are the Dakotas and Alaska.
Every state along and below I-40 as well as Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
Urm, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Arizona. Not very many.. But considering Texas is huge, and I have no reasons to leave the state very often, it works for me..
Canada: is only Ontario..
Mexico: Chihuahua, and Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas. -All bordering Texas.
I might be going to Guatemala over spring break. Hope so. :D
BigMatt
Out of the lower 48, I lack California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and North Dakota. My most recent acquisitions were Texas, Minnesota and Wisconsin last year (not on the same trip, of course).
Here's a couple of interesting questions related to states you have visited:
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited? Mine: Delaware-I spent about 15-20 minutes traveling through on I-295/I-95 going from New Jersey to Maryland.
What state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)? Mine: Missouri-I have family that lives there and I traveled through the state often between home and college as well as many trips to or through the state on vacations or other occasions.
Shortest time: Virginia. I went to Arlington Cemetery, didn't know how huge it was, and it was already mid-evening so I visited the Kennedy grave and then went back to my hotel in DC.
Longest time without living there: Wisconsin. I have many relatives up there and I go somewhere up there at least once or twice a year.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AM
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited?
probably Delaware. A few I-95 runs as a kid, and then one run down DE-1 to clinch the lower two counties, some poking around downtown Wilmington, and an exploration of US-9. Probably less than 36 hours total in the state.
QuoteWhat state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)?
my guess is Nevada. I'm always making runs up there. if not that, then Arizona. I've spent the night more in Nevada, but explored Arizona more, simply because there are more roads in Arizona.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AM
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited?
That would have to be Indiana. I had never been until I took a trip to Chicago back in March of this year. I spent at least one night in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois. Indiana was left out - but the sheer length of it north-to-south puts it pretty close to Tennessee, which doesn't take long at all to drive through.
QuoteWhat state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)?
Tough question. Probably New Mexico. I've been there a total of three (?) times, and each time have stayed for at least a week or so. That puts it above Illinois, which I think comes in second place at 7 nights.
I've been to 35 states plus DC. I am still missing AK, ND, SD, KS, MO, AR, LA, MS, TN, AL, FL, SC, NC, DE and WV. Georgia is the only state in the South that I've been to and that was only for a few hours in Hartsfield International Airport. My last visited new state was Vermont back in 2004. Least amount of time spent in any state, Michigan and Wisconsin are tied, about an hour. Most time would be a tie between Arizona and Nevada. When I lived in California we would be visiting relatives in Bullhead City, also visiting others in Mesa. Nevada, well the amount of times crossing over to Laughlin, then multiple trips to Vegas, of course. Sadly I don't get out and travel much anymore. :(
For Canada I've been to BC, ON, QU, NB and NS
Mexico, just BC
Elsewhere in the world, been to the UK 3 times, Scotland and England!!
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AM
Here's a couple of interesting questions related to states you have visited:
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited? Mine: Delaware-I spent about 15-20 minutes traveling through on I-295/I-95 going from New Jersey to Maryland.
Utah. Only there very briefly en route to other places. Rhode Island would be a close second, as would Mississippi (which I've only passed through going to and from New Orleans).
Quote
What state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)? Mine: Missouri-I have family that lives there and I traveled through the state often between home and college as well as many trips to or through the state on vacations or other occasions.
I have to think New York. My grandparents lived in Brooklyn when I was growing up and we used to visit for a week every summer and again for several days after Christmas; back in the 1970s and early 1980s we used to visit for Thanksgiving as well before the traffic simply became intolerable and we stopped going. Based on an estimate of having spent two weeks a year in New York every year until I was about 16 years old, I come up with about 30 weeks (roughly 3/5 of a year) spent in New York, and that doesn't include all sorts of shorter trips here and there. So on the whole I've probably spent the better part of a year in total in New York.
I'd be inclined to count New Jersey as the second-longest because, aside from all the driving back and forth through New Jersey over the years, I spent a month there one summer handling a patent infringement trial. To me that doesn't count as a state I "worked in" because my job wasn't located in New Jersey–I worked in DC and the circumstances happened to be that my work took me to New Jersey for about a month, essentially like a long business trip (spent the month at a Westin near Princeton when we weren't at the trial office or the courthouse). I think most people wouldn't count business trips as a place where they "worked" because it's not your regular work site.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AM
Here's a couple of interesting questions related to states you have visited:
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited?
Alabama: I did the obligitory US-72/Bridgeport side trip off of I-24 to say I've been in Alabama.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AMWhat state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)? Mine: Missouri-I have family that lives there and I traveled through the state often between home and college as well as many trips to or through the state on vacations or other occasions.
For a person who had lived in Toledo, Ohio for 5 years the obvious answer is Michigan. It's right there, I have relatives in Metro Detroit, and it was the gateway to Canada -- which for many college-age people was important since the drinking age was 19 there vs. 21 in OH and MI.
Shortest time: probably a tie between Nebraska and Maine. My lone incursion into Nebraska involved US 77 south from I-29 to I-129, then east to rejoin I-29 in Iowa. My only time in Maine was entering the state from New Hampshire on NH 4, the using ME 236 and ME 91 to get to US 1, then onto I-95 to head south.
Other states into which I had previously only had short incursions for my first visit until I went back later include Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arkansas, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.
Longest time: probably Tennessee. Lots of trips to Gatlinburg help pad that total. After that, probably West Virginia and Ohio.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AM
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited?
I'm certain it's less than two hours. What's less certain is exactly which state this would be. There are four candidates: Ohio (entered from WV solely to visit a family member's workplace in Marietta), Delaware (have passed through six times on various combinations of I-95/295/495), Rhode Island (have passed through once on I-95), and New York (have passed through NYC twice en route to other destinations).
QuoteWhat state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)?
Florida by a mile. I've probably spent, in total, a good six months or so there visiting family over the last 20 years.
It's easier to list the ones I haven't been to yet.
North Dakota, Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Lived in Illinois the longest (26 years), followed by Michigan (5-1/2 years), Louisiana (2 years), and Wyoming (1/2 year).
Quote from: Truvelo on July 19, 2011, 05:19:02 PM
^^ DC and VA are two of the states I've yet to do.
With DC, you're not missing much. A bunch of Zeroes and Douchebags in the middle of it all. :-P
West to east (roughly):
TX, LA, AR, MO, IA, MN, WI, IL, KY, TN, MS, IN, MI, OH, PA, WV, MD, NJ, NY, MA, NH, ME
That makes 22. 23 if you thrown in Ontario.
Driven in all of these except Texas (I was underage at the time).
As for where I've spent the most time without living there - Ohio. My wife lived there when we were dating, and I was still in Michigan. I've done so many trips on the Turnpike, and the stinkers don't put in E-Z Pass until after we moved to Wisconsin.
Longest time: Florida, as I've probably spent at least three months total of my life there (two trips by car, the others by plane).
Shortest time: Ontario, Canada. I only went to Sault Ontario for lunch then went back across the International Bridge.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 20, 2011, 12:36:41 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 09:16:19 AM
This comment makes me wonder if anyone here has visited the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line, Vermont. The building straddles the border. You enter the building in Vermont, and most of the seats are in Vermont, but the book collection and the opera stage, as well as about half the seats, are in Quebec.
I wonder when the "Homeland Security" people will try to shut it down.
trust me, they've got an eye on you. I once walked 5 feet into Canada to take a picture of a stop/arret sign and received 4 hours of interrogation for my troubles, starting with the highly presumptuous "who are you here to pick up?"
It's a pretty awful way to start an interrogation. the correct first question would be "whom are you here to pick up?" I mean, if you're going to be an officious hosebag, play the part accurately!
I was in fact planning to take pictures of the Haskell library on my way to the New Haven meet. I drove through Derby Line once already, as I go to this area of Vermont quite often. Unfortunately it'll be around 6:30 AM by the time I get there so I don't expect the library to be open, unfortunately.
Judging from your experience, agentsteel53, I'll watch where I walk... (or wait until I have 4 hours to spare...)
Shortest time? That would be Colorado with 5 minutes (tops). Took I-76 (west) from I-80 to the first exit and turned back to I-80.
Only time I've ever been in Colorado so far.
I've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
No, wait... that was someone else.
I've only been to 50 + DC.
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on July 21, 2011, 11:37:08 PM
Judging from your experience, agentsteel53, I'll watch where I walk... (or wait until I have 4 hours to spare...)
our motto: "welcome to the United States. go home, dirty foreigner."
AR, LA, OK, TX, KS, NE, MS, FL, TN, IL, MO, IA, SD, MN (extreme SW corner), AL, PA (about 20 years ago), NM (15 years ago)
I've been to Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and California (flew out to San Francisco when I was 13 alone to visit family).
EDIT: Add the District of Columbia.
Here are the stats I have been to:
Kentucky (duh, I LIVE in it!)
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Tennessee
Georgia
W. Virgina
Virgina
North Carolina
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
New York State
Alabama
I think that's all, hopefully I'm not missing any states.
Quote from: mukade on July 22, 2011, 07:01:14 AM
I've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
No, wait... that was someone else.
That was Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States.
Quote from: ftballfan on July 22, 2011, 05:43:34 PM
Quote from: mukade on July 22, 2011, 07:01:14 AM
I've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
No, wait... that was someone else.
That was Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States.
negative, it was Jesus.
I've been to all lower 48 plus DC. North Dakota was the last in 2006.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California (lived there)
Florida
Georgia (lived there)
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi (live here)
Missouri
New York (born there and lived there as a very small child)
Nevada
New Mexico
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Wisconsin
11-New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 12:57:48 AM
Here's a couple of interesting questions related to states you have visited:
What's the least amount of time you have spent in any state you have visited?
West Virginia. Drove through the northern panhandle a couple times. Both involved stopping there, but briefly. I probably haven't even spent an hour in the state.
QuoteWhat state have you spent the most time in that you have never lived or worked in(attending college counts as having lived in a state)?
Would have to be New Jersey.
I posted once already, but I did do 48 in 16 days: http://www.sykotyk.com/supertrip/
Let's see, i've done:
CT (live there now), RI, MA, NH, VT, NY, NJ, DE, PA, WV, MD (moving there next month for college), VA, DC, NC, SC, TN, GA, AL, KY
So, that's 18+DC. Not bad for a 16 year old without a driver's license.
OH, KY, TN, AL, PA, ON, FL, and GA.
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Not a state, but visited: District of Columbia
I have visited all states EXCEPT: Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.
I've been toall lower 48 except WI and SD and ND.
I've been to California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan (both peninsulas), Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The last states added for me were Pennsylvania and Maryland for the Baltimore meet last year.
I've spent the least amount of time in Pennsylvania since I've lived in (both peninsulas of Michigan) or stayed overnight (the rest) at least once.
I've been to 49 states plus DC. The only one I haven't been to yet is Alaska.
Since last weekend,
QC (home), ON, NB, PE, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NY, NJ.
4 in Canada, 7 in the United States of America.
OR, CA, ID, NV, UT, MT, WY, CO (live there), NM, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, TN (airport layover), MD, VA, and DC.
20+DC, or 21+DC if you count airport layovers.
I'm a roadgeek that hasn't gotten on the road very much...
NV, CA, OR, AZ, NM, TX. I've also been to Washington DC, but flew there.
I've been to 4. California, Arizona Utah and Nevada
A quick count referencing my Mob Rule scoreboard [scoreboard] (http://www.mob-rule.com/cgi-bin/makeuser.cgi?user=vid&sort=pctg) [map] (http://www.mob-rule.com/counties/user-gifs/vid.gif) is 34 states, plus DC. That map doesn't show SC; I know I've been through it, but I was young and I don't know what route we took.