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Jan. 25th, 2004 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbI don't often do these things, but I've been meaning to visualize this anyway. States I've visited:
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I only included places I've been as an adult, mostly because, aside from DC, I just don't remember where I might have visited as a kid. I did include states I can prove I drove through but have absolutely no memory of. (Sorry, West Virginia.) I think I've been to all of these except Florida in the last year.
So I've sketched out a road trip that takes me through Arkansas, Kentucky, DC, New Hampshire, Maine, and Michigan. Alaska's gonna be a pain, though, and Hawaii, well. I hope my car can swim.
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
I only included places I've been as an adult, mostly because, aside from DC, I just don't remember where I might have visited as a kid. I did include states I can prove I drove through but have absolutely no memory of. (Sorry, West Virginia.) I think I've been to all of these except Florida in the last year.
So I've sketched out a road trip that takes me through Arkansas, Kentucky, DC, New Hampshire, Maine, and Michigan. Alaska's gonna be a pain, though, and Hawaii, well. I hope my car can swim.
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Date: 2004-01-25 07:44 pm (UTC)Maine's nice. So's New Hampshire, Kentucky, Michigan. Delaware, enh, skip it. Flat and boring, and a pain to drive through (no interstates). Never been to Arkansas, but I was really close (Memphis). I'd kind of like to see the Clinton Library when it's finished; it sounds grandiose.
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Date: 2004-01-25 07:51 pm (UTC)I've been to Delaware, although not this year--it's DC I haven't (since high school). I enjoyed it but then I had a really nice hotel room.
The one that surprised me is Michigan, because I think of it as close to Minnesota. Which it is, but only to Duluth, and I haven't been there much.
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Date: 2004-01-25 08:07 pm (UTC)I've been to Ann Arbor, but it hardly seems fair to count the Upper Peninsula because of that. But I've never been to Wisconsin, so that's probably more or less the same.
The others I've never been to (besides Wisconsin and Arkansas) are the Dakotas and Alaska & Hawaii. I'm sure there's interesting stuff in each Dakota-- like, you know, Mt. Rushmore-- but it hardly seems like something to base a whole trip around. I'd like to drive the length of I-90 some time, though. I think I've done all of I-80 (though not on one trip), but I-90 seems more exotic. Well, once you get past Framingham.
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Date: 2004-01-25 08:32 pm (UTC)Once when I was working on a project, someone indicated DC on a map of the US -- except they pointed to Boston. Geography's a funny thing.
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Date: 2004-01-25 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-25 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-25 08:36 pm (UTC)Yeah, I want to visit DC again, when I get a chance. I'm very fond of it--I lived there at various points in childhood, when my dad was teaching classes there.
There's not much in North Dakota along I-90, and probably not much away from it. WAIT! I may not have been to South Dakota! A grave omission.
I've driven a lot of I-90--from Boston to Chicago in the fall, presumably via I-90, and from, I guess, Billings to Seattle in the winter. Between Chicago and Billings I've driven most of I-94. In the west I prefer I-80, except that you have to go through Nebraska. The mountains and desert in Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada were more exotic than what Montana and Idaho had to offer.
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Date: 2004-01-25 08:37 pm (UTC)Hawaii
Date: 2004-01-25 11:43 pm (UTC)