Let's do our semi-annual "What states have you been to" DU Lounge survey

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Here are the ground rules a la Tommy_Carcetti.

To qualify as having been to a state, you must either:

a) Have walked on the actual ground in the state
b) Have walked in a structure permanently affixed to the ground in the state

What does count:
a) Airplane layovers in which you deboarded the plane and entered the airport terminal (even if you didn't leave the terminal itself)

What does not count:
a)Airplane layovers where you never deboarded the plane
b)Flying over a state without having landed there
c)Driving through a state without getting out of the car and walking around.
d)Having been to a state as a baby before you had a conscious memory of being there


With that being said, here is my list:

Maryland
Florida
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
West Virginia
Delaware
Connecticut*
Vermont
Kentucky
Texas**
Nevada
Arizona


I have also been to the Bahamas, Ontario and Quebec. Plus Washington, DC which isn't a state, but I've been there.

*Brief stop for gas only after making a wrong turn in New York. (Although I briefly drove through it last time I was in New York--the White Plains airport is right along the Connecticut border and you have to briefly enter Connecticut to get back to New York)

**DFW Layover only

I once landed in Birmingham Alabama en route to Kentucky but never deboarded, so I don't count that as an official visit.

Despite my limited travels, I can say I've been in all four mainland US timezones.

[charlie and algernon]

1. you answered mine, so I'll answer yours

Pennsylvania
Maryland
New York
New Jersey
Deleware
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
DC
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Louisiana
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Georgia (deboarded the plane for a layover in Atlanta)

Ontario, Canada
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Dublin, Ireland
Frankfurt, Germany

[charlie and algernon]

29. shoot, left out Florida

[Shell Beau]

2. Ok

MS
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Illinois
New York
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
D.C.

[Iggo]

3. CA, NV, AZ, MO.

EDIT: Oops, I forgot. I shouldn't really count Texas because I never got out of DFW.

[Rosie1223]

4. My parents were big on the "pile everyone in the car" summer family vacation

ALABAMA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONNECTICUT
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
GEORGIA
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
IOWA
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
LOUISIANA
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
MISSISSIPPI
MISSOURI
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
OKLAHOMA
PENNSYLVANIA
SOUTH CAROLINA
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
WYOMING

I haven't been to the Northwest yet. Someday......

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Wow that's quite a list. My family was big on the summer road trip too...

....which explains my affinity for driving. My wife doesn't get it, but I always find there's an excitement about it.

[Rosie1223]

7. We live in Illinois

You have to drive thru several states to get to anywhere interesting.

[grace0418]

12. I heard that. And my family was too big to be able to buy airline tickets to anywhere.

So we piled in a camper and drove all over. In 1976 we took a bicentennial tour of New England but we never made it to Maine or Rhode Island.

You should visit the Pac NW whenever you can. It's absolutely gorgeous. Several of my siblings live in Washington state now. So much so that most people assume I was born and raised in Seattle or Olympia. I tell them "No, Chicago. Everyone left *ME*!" On one of my visits to Washington, we took a long weekend to visit Oregon and it's breathtaking as well. Trees, mountains, ocean...everything that Illinois does NOT have.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. You ought to come to Florida as well. I could tell you where the best places are to visit.

Believe it or not, it's not all just Orlando and Disney World.

[Rosie1223]

17. I'd like to visit the Keys

I have zero desire to visit Disneyworld. My kids claim they have had a deprived childhood.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Hee hee.

My dad hated Disney World because of all the sprawl it created in the Central Florida area. He always said my mom was welcome to take us, but neither myself nor my sisters ever expressed a desire to go there, so we never went. I've been going to Florida since I was a baby and living in Florida for 12 years and I've yet to set foot in Disney World proper (the closest I've been is the Downtown Disney area, which is free to go to). I honestly can't say I really feel deprived, although I think my wife will want to go when our daughter is old enough.

The Keys are beautiful. There's not much better than driving over the Seven Mile Bridge and seeing miles upon miles of tropical blue water on the horizon. You'll close your eyes and you can still see it, it's that vivid. If you go, check out Bahia Honda State Park. The thing about the Keys that few people realize is there are very few beaches, but Bahia Honda has a great one. The water is crystal clear and you can wade out beyond the sandy area to the coral reef area and snorkle around all day and see many different species of fish.

[Mugu]

56. My parents were the same way

and I also live in Illinois.

I've been to every state (plus Canada and Mexico) except a few in the SE and Alaska. Hope to see them all before I check out.

[handmade34]

6. all of them and while it's been interesting, I want to go home!

in Napa Valley now, headed to South Dakota on the 21st (...a week break from work in Michigan)

[grace0418]

13. Every time I'm in Napa Valley I'm convinced that's where I should be calling home.

Yet somehow I always end up back in Chicago. I don't know how that happens. ;)

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. Here's mine:

New York
California
Texas
Florida
Pennsylvania
Vermont
New Hampshire
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Indiana
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maine
Delaware
New Jersey
Virginia
Michigan
Maryland
DC
Massechusetts

[TZ]

9. Okay

Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
DC
Delaware
NJ
South Carolina
Georgia
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
New York
Connecticut
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Minnesota
Florida*---For about 20 minutes as I ran from one end of Miami's airport to another YEESH

And not a state but a territory..Puerto Rico

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. MIA is crazy.

My sister stayed overnight with me when she was flying to Belize via MIA the next morning around 9 am. Thankfully I decided to leave extra early (like 5:30 am) to drop her off, because after I saw the lines at the airport there would be no way she would have gotten to the gate if I had left at a later time.

Hence if I'm flying out I always use either Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach.

[grace0418]

11. Easier to go the other way. I have yet to visit Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island.

I will definitely knock those off the list sometime in the near future. Then onto my goal of visiting every continent at least once.

[CBR]

15. States

Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
DC
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
California
Oregon
Washington
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas

Puerto Rico
USVI

[graywarrior]

16. Hmmm, some of them were visited in a blackout, but here goes

Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
W. Virginia
North Carolin
South Carolina
George
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
California
Arizona
Tennessee
Arkansas

Canada
Jamaica

Wow, I never really thought about this before. I've gotten around.

[LNM]

18. All of them.

I reached that milestone this past spring.

[vadawg]

19. all 48 lower states and DC, was doing the tourist thing on the greyhound and amtrak

had a burger in every state was the name of the game, also been to every continent on the planet except antartica but been close south of the falklands...

[skygazer]

21. All of the lower 48

Lived in -

New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Alabama
California

Visited extensively -

Maine
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Minnesota (daughter lives there)
Kansas (daughter used to live there)
Oklahoma (sister used to live there)

Camped in (on 3 different drives across entire U.S. or several shorter drives, also on 2 different cross-country hitchhiking trips) -

Washington
Oregon
Nevada
Arizona
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Wyoming
Michigan
Ohio
West Virginia
Missouri
Colorado
Utah

Hitchhiked through (by its definition included walking the ground)

Delaware (all day at a truck stop there waiting for a ride)
Illinois
Indiana
Nebraska
Texas

Drove through but stopped either to eat, get gas, stay at a motel or stop at tourist spot -

Arkansas (motel)
Iowa (motel)
Kentucky
Louisiana (visited while living in Alabama)
North Carolina
South Carolina
South Dakota (Badlands)
Tennessee
Wisconsin (land of cheese, stopped for lunch and they forgot the cheese on husband's sandwich)


I think that's all of them. That was kind of fun. :)

[femmocrat]

22. My list (as I remember):

North to south: ME, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, NJ, PA, DE, DC, MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL

East to west: OH, WVA, KY, IN, KS, AZ, NM, NV, CA = 24 states + DC

Other countries: Canada and Bimini

[MrScorpio]

23. Here We Go

* Alabama
* Alaska
* Arkansas
* California
* Delaware
* District of Columbia
* Florida
* Georgia
* Illinois
* Indiana
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Maryland
* Michigan
* Minnesota
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* New Jersey
* New York
* North Carolina
* Ohio
* Pennsylvania
* South Carolina
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Virginia
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin

Let's Edit Some Countries In There:

Canada, Japan, Okinawa, Korea (North and South), Philippines, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy,

[Arugula Latte]

24. Okay

Ohio (lived there)
California (lived there)
Washington DC (lived there)
Oregon (currently live here)
Massachusetts (spent a summer)
Colorado (spent a summer)
Washington
Hawaii
Alaska
New York
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Idaho
Montana
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Wyoming
New Mexico
Texas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Tennessee

Haven't been to (mostly north central states):
Iowa
North Dakota
South Dakota
Michigan
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Louisiana

[azmouse]

25. ok...

Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Maryland
Virginia
Georgia
Florida
Louisiana
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Kansas
Missouri
Colorado
Nevada
Arizona
California

[_dynamicdems]

26. Not as many as I should have.

Alabama
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin

[Glorfindel]

27. All of them, except

Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. I have also been to Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom. I did ride in a car through Minnesota, but never touched the ground there.

[coconuted]

28. I've been to

Florida (home)
Georgia
North Carolina
South carolina
Virgina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Vermont
Alabama

[Wapsie B]

30. Ok.

Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Missouri
Texas
Florida
New Mexico
California
Washington
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Ohio
Colorado

[susanr516]

31. Not too many

Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
North Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
DC
Maryland

[1gobluedem]

32. Michigan, of course, my home state

Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
Georgia
Florida
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
California
Oregon
Washington

Washington, DC
Ontario, Canada

Haven't made it to Europe or the British Isles yet, but so want to someday...

Edited to add Utah.

[XemaSab]

33. Let's see....

California
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Colorado
Nevada
Texas
Oregon
Washington
Alaska
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida

[bamacrat]

34. Here's mine...

Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Virginia
Maryland
New York
New Jersey
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Texas
Louisana
Colorado

[timtom]

35. Ok, here goes...

Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
DC
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
Colorado
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Utah
Nevada
California
Hawaii
Vietnam
Guam
Okinawa

Oh, yes...and the Dark Side.

[Initech]

36. My list:

CA
NV
TX
MO
FL
MI
IL
MN
OH
IN
GA
SC
NC
TN
KY
NY
MA
RI
ME
PE
CT
VT
NJ
MD
CO
AZ

[doc03]

37. Here is mine

OH
WV
VA
NY
PA
GA
SC
NC
MD
DE
NJ
IN
MI
CO
KY
FL

I lived in Arlington, VA for 2 years and was in DC many many times.
I see many listing DC as a state, it is not. DC stands for D Capital.
:hide:

[pokerfan]

38. I'm lazy

so I used the interactive map at http://www.epgsoft.com/VisitedStatesMap.

[triguy46]

39. Ok. here's the correct answer:

Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Arizona
Massachusetts
Louisiana
Nevada

[Liberalynn]

40. Here's Mine

PA
ME
FL
RI
MA

[BlueJazz]

41. All except Hawaii

[AwakeAtLast]

42. I will do my best

New Hampshire
Vermont
Maryland
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Montana
Colorado
Arizona
Nevada
Hawaii

Puerto Rico
Ontario

It would have been easier to post the states I haven't been to, LOL!

[Xipe Totec]

43. Okay, I'll try to remember

Washington

Oregon

California

Arizona

New Mexico

Texas

Oklahoma

Arkansas

Tennessee

North Carolina

Virginia

Maryland

West Virginia

Pennsylvania

New York

Massatwoshits

Vermont

New Hampshire

Maine

[Minimus]

44. Mine:

Hawaii
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Colorado
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Washington, DC
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Massachusetts

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. Ok...

Alabama
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachussetts
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
and Washington, D.C., which ought to be a state.

Wish I could count Colorado, my birthplace; but I don't remember anything about it. :cry:

[rurallib]

46. I live in Iowa so here we go

missouri - nebraska - south dakota - minnesota - wisconsin - illinois (got a kid there) - indiana (other kid) - kentucky - ohio - virginia - florida - north carolina - tennesee - mississippi - georgia - alabama - texas - colorado - arizona - nevada -
plus ontario and quebec in canada.
whole lot more than I thought

[eppur_se_muova]

47. Lessee ... AL AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA ID IL IN IO KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC

ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WY

i.e., all but AK HI MN WI by car. Western states mostly by family vacation as a youngster (and might have clipped a corner of MN), eastern (plus TX and AR) as driver. Oh, and I flew to WA and CA (well, really, I rode in a plane ... 'flew' is just an expression).

MN by airport only.

Went to school in six states (counting postdoc); worked in nine.

Oh, and of course, DC.

[DevonRex]

48. All but Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

Edited to remove Minnesota. I actually did have to change planes there and touched the actual ground.

[deucemagnet]

49. OK

Alabama - No.
Alaska - No.
Arizona - Yes!
Arkansas - No.
California - Yes!
Colorado - Yes!
Connecticut - No.
Delaware - Yes!
Florida - Yes!
Georgia - No.
Hawaii - No.
Idaho - No.
Illinois - Yes!
Indiana - No.
Iowa - No.
Kansas - No.
Kentucky - No.
Louisiana - No.
Maine - No.
Maryland - Yes!
Massachusetts - Yes!
Michigan - No.
Minnesota - No.
Mississippi - No.
Missouri - No.
Montana - No.
Nebraska - No.
Nevada - Yes!
New Hampshire - No.
New Jersey - Yes!
New Mexico - Yes!
New York - Yes!
North Carolina - No.
North Dakota - No.
Ohio - Yes!
Oklahoma - No.
Oregon - No.
Pennsylvania - Yes!
Rhode Island - No.
South Carolina - No.
South Dakota - No.
Tennessee - No.
Texas - Yes!
Utah - No.
Vermont - No.
Virginia - No.
Washington - No.
West Virginia - No.
Wisconsin - Yes!
Wyoming - No.

[Chan790]

50. Mine:

Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Ohio
Illinois
Texas
Kentucky
22/50(51)

[sakabatou]

51. Lesse

California (live here), Oregon, Washington, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida.

[Roon]

52. I used to be a truck driver

I have been to all lower 48 states countless times. Never have been to Alaska or Hawaii though.

[rcrush]

53. Why does driving across the state not count but a layover in the airport does?

I mean at least you'd see the state if you drove across it. Anyways Texas New York and DC. And a few Mexican border towns in high school.

[nuxvomica]

54. My list:

Arizona
California
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia

Bold = overnight at least one night.

[ashling]

55. Alphabetical, geographical, or chronological?

Washington,
Oregon,
California,
Arizona,
Utah,
Idaho,
Montana,
Wyoming,
Colorado,
New Mexico,
TEXAS,
Oklahoma,
Kansas,
Louisiana,
Arkansas,
Missouri,
Mississippi,
Tennessee,
Kentucky,
Ohio,
West Virginia,
Maryland,
Pennsylvania,
New York,
New Jersey,
Delaware,
Virginia,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
Georgia,
South Carolina,
Florida,
Alabama,
District of Columbia,
Michigan,
Illinois

I've never been to Maine, but I kinda like the music ...

[MrSlayer]

57. Mine.

[UrbScotty]

58. Besides Michigan (home, sweet home) and North Carolina (where I was born):

Arizona
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia

[eleny]

59. All but Hawaii

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

60. These:

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming

[Liberal_in_LA]

61. Only about 18 or 19. Yikes.

[Ikonoklast]

62. All the Lower 48.

Want to got to Alaska one day, but it's hard to get someone to pay me enough to go.

If It's On The Map, I'll Haul Your Crap.

[jmowreader]

63. Since the 4th of July, I have been to:

New York (The Village of Newark, which is on the Erie Canal. Spent a weekend there waiting to drop off a load. Highly recommend it!)
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Missouri
Michigan (I've been to the Rock-Tenn paper plant in Battle Creek so many times they know me by name now)
Indiana
Tomorrow I'll go to Georgia.

[mvd]

64. Mine

PA, MD, DE, NY, VA, TN, AK, MS, MA, FL, NJ, CT, RI, WV, OH, IN, KY, IL

[Haole Girl]

65. Ok. But the list is long!

Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey (if EWR airport counts)
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming

(I might have been to 1 or 2 others, but I was too young to remember them)