How many states have you been to?

[andytom]

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

[triplemultiplex]

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.

[FreewayDan]

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)

[Ace10]

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.

[AZDude]

I have been to 47 states.  Only ones left are the Dakotas and Alaska.

[brownpelican]

Every state along and below I-40 as well as Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

[BigMattFromTexas]

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.
BigMatt

[hbelkins]

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).

[huskeroadgeek]

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.

[Chicagosuburban]

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.

[agentsteel53]

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.  

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)?

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.

[Ace10]

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.

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)?

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.

[mhallack]

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!!

[1995hoo]

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).

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.

[thenetwork]

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.

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.

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.

[hbelkins]

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.

[Eth]

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).

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)?

Florida by a mile.  I've probably spent, in total, a good six months or so there visiting family over the last 20 years.

[Brandon]

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).

[Brandon]

^^ 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. 

[JREwing78]

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.

[ftballfan]

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.

[Dr Frankenstein]

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...)

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

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.

[mukade]

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.

[agentsteel53]

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."