The year you first visited each state

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I haven't visited any states yet. So I go with countries:

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

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

Only two to go. Andalusia may fall around Easter, and Extremadura is out of the plans for the time being.

[formulanone]

1978-79: FL, GA, TN, NY, CT, NJ, RI, MA (first time I was aware there were states)
1980: KY, NH
1981: VA, MD, DC
1982: DE, PA
1990: NC, SC
1991: ME
1998: ES (Spain)
2000: WA, BC
2001: CA, NV
2004: AL, MS, LA
2011: IL, MI, TX, OK, MO, OH, AR
2012: WV, IN, MN, IA, AZ, KS, VT, WI
2013: CO
2014: NE

[jp the roadgeek]

The early days (pre-1980) are guesses/ photos showing me in that state/stories from parents

1975: CT (born)
1977: RI (picture of me at Misquamicut)
1978: FL, MA, NH, ME  (road trip to ME, picture of me at grandparents in FL)
1981: NY, NJ, PA (road trip to Sesame Place/Lancaster County)
1982: GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE (road trip from FL to CT)
1984: VT (visiting dad's old roommate)
1988: MO, HI (Hawaii vacation), PQ
1991: DC (school trip)
1993: Bahamas
1998: WV (drove in and turned around at Harper's Ferry)

[Alps]

The early days (pre-1980) are guesses/ photos showing me in that state/stories from parents

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

My problem is that at least 40 of my states would be pure guesses. I didn't keep track too well of what year I went most places.
1983: NJ, NY (probable)
1983 or 84: CT
1984 or 85: PA
1985: PR
1986 or 87: FL
... stuff
2000: TX
2001: LA
2004: OR, WA, AK
2008: HI

[Duke87]

Yikes, what on earth were you doing back in the 90s that results in so much uncertainty?

In my case this was easy since my family never traveled any significant distance unless it was to go on vacation. Furthermore, none of those trips were particularly ambitious or complex and all of them are well documented.

[Jim]

As with many, some early states/provinces are guesses.  I completed my set of 50 states in 2006 with Hawaii.  Still missing the Canadian Maritimes and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

1970: NY
197?: ME, MA, NH, NJ, VT, ON
1977: CO, IL, IN, IA, MO, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, TX (road trip to NM, CO)
1978: DE, DC?, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA (first road trip to FL)
early 1980s: CT, RI, WV, QC
1985: AZ, CA, ID, KY, MN, MT, NV, SD, UT, WI, WY (first XC road trip to CA)
1989: KS, MI (Yellowstone road trip)
1997: AL, TN (MN/KC/StL/FL road trip)
1998: AR, LA, MS (conference trip to Vicksburg)
1999: OR, WA (trip to Seattle)
2000: AB, BC (Banff ski trip)
2001: AK, ND, MB, SK, YT (AK road trip)
2006: HI

[Alps]

Yikes, what on earth were you doing back in the 90s that results in so much uncertainty?

I'd have to ask my mom to dig back through 30 years of records to find when individual trips took place, and I don't really care.

[agentsteel53]

1986: NY, CT, RI, MA, NH, ME, ON, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, TN, WV
1987: VT
1988: NB, NS, PE, QC, NF
1998: OH, MI, IN, IL, IA, NE, CO, UT, ID, WY, MT, WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, NM, TX, OK, MO
2003: AR
2004: KY, KS, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC
2005: WI, MN, SD, HI
2006: ND
2007: AK
2010: AB, BC, YT, NU
2011: NT

have not yet been to MB or SK

[theline]

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

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

[Takumi]

1986: Virginia
1990?: North Carolina. I remember a few early trips to Raleigh and Wanchese around then. It may have been earlier.
1994: Tennessee
1997: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
1998: Maryland
2000: DC, West Virginia, Pennsylvania

[PHLBOS]

1965: Born in MA
1971: NY, NJ, GA, FL
1972: NH
1975: RI
1978: ME
1979: CT, DE
1980: VT
1989: MD, DC, VA
1990: PA
1995: OH, WV
1996: MI
1998: TX
2003: KY, OR, UT
2004: CO, IL
2005: WA, WI
2006: AZ, NC, TN
2008: MN
2010: MS

[hobsini2]

1976: WI
1980: IL
1983: IN
1985: IA, OH, PA, WV, MD, VA, DC
1994: MN, TX, TN, MI
1996: NJ, FL, CA, AK, MO, AR
2000: NE, KS, OK
2001: KY
2002: NV
2003: SD, ND, MT, WY
2004: CO
2005: NY
2006: NM, MS, AL, GA, CT, RI
2007: MA
2008: DE
2009: NC, SC
2011: UT

So by my count that's 41 states plus DC.

[leroys73]

Wow! That is a tough one for an old fart.

Born in Ohio 1949

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

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

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

[Dr Frankenstein]

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

Planned for 2014: MB, SK, AB, BC, OH, IN, IL

[hm insulators]

This is a fun thread! Let's see here, not counting California where I was born in 1961:

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

For good measure, one trip to Taiwan with my then roommate (who is originally from there) and a couple of his buddies.

[Kacie Jane]

NB (Kouchibougouac)

Gesundheit.

My list:

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

(May be off on the years in a couple of places, but I think I have them all in the right order at least.)  So no new states in the past decade, buuuuut... I'm driving from Seattle to Florida and back in May/June, so I might be able to knock off the rest of "lower 48" this year.  Then I'll just need to start planning a Hawaiian vacation....

[english si]

1997 - FL
2003 - MI, CA, NV, AZ

[Mike_OH]

1981: Ohio (born there)
Early 80's: KY, IN, TN, GA, FL
Mid-to-late 80's: NC
1990: IL, MO
1991: PA, NY, MI, plus Ontario
1993: WV, VA, MD, plus DC.
1996: AL
1997: WI
2001: NJ
2004: SC
2013: AZ, TX (DFW airport only)

[Roadsguy]

• NJ - ~2000-2003?
• NY - 2009
• OH - ~2009 (10?)
• MD, VA, NC - 2007

[ce929wax]

For me, it is:
1985:  Michigan (born)
1986 (roughly): Illinois and Indiana (Dad was stationed in Waukegan)
1987 (roughly): Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina (Dad was stationed in Charleston)
1996: Wisconsin
1997: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California
1998: Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas
1999: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
2007: Colorado
2008: Virginia (Lee County).

[doorknob60]

Some of these are guesses, I'll do my best.

1993: Oregon (born), Washington (total guess)
1998: California (I went on many trips there in elementary school, but could have happened earlier)
2006: Idaho (this may have happened much earlier too, don't remember)
2009: Nevada
2010: Wyoming, Montana
2011: New York
2014: Utah (airport only)

[UNDSIOUX]

In approximate order of when I first visited the state in each calendar year-

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

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

2006- Married to a spouse who has no sense of adventure in travel so I don't see any changes to this list happening anytime soon..

[Sanctimoniously]

Does this count driving through a state to get to another place? If so, some of these dates may change and additions would be made.

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

Foreign countries:
Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan: 2011.

[roadman65]

1987 IL
1989 OH and KY
1990 TN
1992 LA MS AL
1997 TX
2000 MO KS NM AZ NV UT CO

[ET21]

1992 (year born): Illinois
1996: Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida
1997: Indiana
2000: Iowa
2001: Michigan
2003: Minnesota, California
2005: South Dakota, Wyoming
2006: New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio
2007: Alaska, Colorado

Foreign: Canada
Ontario: 2006
British Colombia: 2007