Although we do lots of flying vacations now, we still enjoy the updated classic car vacation too (with the addition of car seats and DVD players). When I was a kid we too long driving vacations every summer, so it seemed natural to plop both girls into the new van (5 months old with 8 thousand miles already) and drive out to Wyoming.
When I saw this little map thingie, I had to plot all the states I've visited. I know that I missed some, particularly states in which I've spent very little time - my dad had a fondness for briefly detouring into neighboring states so that we could say that we've been there - but this is a good start . . . and a to-do list!
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3 comments:
I like the size dichotomy—huge rural states you haven't been to and teeny East Coast states you just haven't summoned up any need to see.
My map's a lot less red than yours. It doesn't help that I hate the traditional driving vacation, does it?
You've missed Delaware and Rhode Island? The two littlest! Just promise me you won't cut through the I-95 corridor of Delaware and count it. The real Delaware is a beach state!
I'm missing 4 states, too--but 2 of mine are really hard to get to: Hawaii and Alaska.
Orange, how's that possible?! Unlimited hours to indulge in sheer sunny-afternoon laziness, watching the country slide by out your car window, freedom to eat sweet or greasy road-trip food guiltlessly - road trips are the best. But I don't ever ever recommend driving all the way across Nebraska.
PPB, I bet I've been to both. My last driving vacation in the northeast was on a family vacation as a kid, and my nose would have been buried in a book and missing some of the subtlties my parents were relishing from the front seats.
I crave a trip to Alaska (work camp to Sitka!) and highly recommend a job like my last one, which sent me to Hawaii - twice.
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