Counties?

[SSOWorld]

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:

Canada's not too impressive, all are in NW Ontario

[DBrim]

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.

[hbelkins]

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.

[ftballfan]

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).

[Alps]

Here's mine:

How the heck do you have two counties in western Mississippi?

[CentralCAroadgeek]

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.

[Alps]

I'm surprised Mississippi has an airport

[bassoon1986]

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?

[bassoon1986]

What counties have yall been to? Compared to some people I haven't been to very many
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[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?

[agentsteel53]

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.

[froggie]

I'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, I really need to get out West sometime.

[formulanone]

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:



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!

[froggie]

On the subject, the Washington Post wrote an article 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.

[bassoon1986]

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!

[hbelkins]

Next in my sights to clinch: North Carolina

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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.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

On the subject, the Washington Post wrote an article 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.

[roadman65]

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.

[mjb2002]

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

[Truvelo]

Considering I don't live in the country I don't think I've done too badly.

[elsmere241]

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.)

[bugo]

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. 

[bassoon1986]

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

[Truvelo]

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.

[the49erfan15]

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. 

[bugo]

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.