I've put a substantial amount of effort into tracking which states I've been to, but when I first started there was a lot of asking my parents about states we'd visited when I was too small to remember ( Read more... )

It's been nearly four years since I knocked off a new state, what with the pandemic and a baby and all that. That emphatically changed in January, as we arrived at Hilton Head, South Carolina on January 2 and left on February 2 ( Read more... )

I was thinking about my travel last year and I thought it would be interesting to see a filled in map with the states I was in for at least a bit. Thanks to the 2018 Last Weekend Series, this was actually pretty easy.

2018

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Over the past weekend, my sister and I went to Oklahoma City, which means that she's officially off the hook for not letting us stop there back in 2008 when we drove cross-country. I had floated the idea of a siblings weekend over New Year's when I visited her (and coincidentally when I knocked out Alabama), and from there choosing a state neither ( Read more... )

It has been a long time since I went to a new state. My goal, more or less was to do 51 by my 51st birthday (counting DC, obviously), and right now I'm on track with only 8 states left to visit after my brief trip to Alabama for breakfast.

On January 1, M and I woke up in Bremen, Georgia. We actually woke up sufficiently late that breakfast at the ( Read more... )

Well, contrary to my dire prediction in my original Arkansas post, my sister is off the hook because I have now been to Arkansas. The occasion was half a week visiting stephywang and her husband D. They live in the Memphis suburbs, just across the river from Arkansas, so in addition to the long list of music related tourist attractions, I told them I wanted ( Read more... )

My long ago childhood visit to Nebraska has been replaced with a solid day in that fine state, sandwiched between my two nights in Iowa. My official excuse was attending a game by the Omaha Storm Chasers, who are the AAA affiliate of the Royals. That and my need to cross Nebraska off the list was enough to justify a trip, but then I found out that ( Read more... )

I had driven through Iowa before but never slept or ate or done anything touristy. Ok, so we probably ate there because it takes a while to drive through, but the point is that I certainly couldn't give myself full credit.

This year I went on my big Midwestern baseball road trip and I slept in Iowa not once but twice. The first night was after I ( Read more... )

My first time in Arizona I was a very small baby, so it only counted for partial credit. I've now clobbered the state into full credit. For those who missed the FaceBook update, the trip was occasioned by my fraternity brother PWG (who happens to be one of my two little brothers) getting married. He's lived in Phoenix for years, and kindly ( Read more... )

When I made my original post about Delaware I had been in the state once, in which I had never gotten out of the car and was in fact asleep for the entirety of my brief stay. During my 2012 baseball road trip I drove through the state two more times (once south, once north), but while I was awake for this pass, I did not step out of the car at any ( Read more... )