How many States in the US have you visited?

[zipfuel]

Following Mrs @HammerheadFistpunch 's guidelines I've got a baker's dozen worthy of an anecdote, in no particular order.

Wisconsin: first ever business trip and rental car (PT cruiser) in Milwaukee, saw the bronze Fonz and Harley museum. Several trips to north of Green Bay where business casual is hunting camo and packers jerseys. Passed the same dead deer in a guys truck bed for several days running - made sense, whole place was a freezer.

Louisiana: alligator etouffe, drive thru daiquiris and the Tabasco museum

Virginia: work trip down a tiny tunnel, lead to us getting sued. Ford Focus with a terrible gearbox, Udvar Hazy museum on the way out.

DC: spare day drive into the capital, surprised I could park on the mall. Had a coffee under the Hirschhorn museum.

California: couple to SF which can get rough quick, from Sachs to crackheads in 2 blocks. LA but only saw factories and freeways.

Florida: Ft Lauderdale & Orlando - standard tourist: pirate boat tour, alligators Disney etc

Ohio: I really like what's left of Toledo's downtown and the gutted bits still manage to be atmospheric. Good brewpub and staying at the Park Inn Hotel feels like you're in an 80s movie.

Tennessee: Nashville, Honky-tonks, the Lane museum, driving to the Parthenon in a boostang during a thunderstorm, eating BBQ at test n' tune night at a rando local drag strip

Alabama: been to the Biergarten at the rocket museum, the Tuskegee Airmen field and a wholefoods to pee, probably not representative.

Texas: San Antonio, hot as balls saw the remnants of the world's fair and Riverwalk but forgot the Alamo. Excellent mexican food.

Illinois: Chicago twice for the same trade show, deep dish pizza and walking past Chess records by chance was cool.

New York: Buffalo on new years day to activate my new Canadian work permit. Went to the Walden Galleria, realized should have just driven around the flagpole and left.

Hawaii: Maui, took a Chevy Cobalt up a volcano - sounded like an angry sewing machine at altitude.

[facw]

@TheJWT This many:

Though four of those were just passing through when I was a toddler, so I'm not sure they count.

[Manwich]

@Huzer

Hmmm... Florida, Vermont, NY, Michigan, Illinois, Georgia, Kentuky, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, Tennesee, Missouri, Massachusettes... so at least 14 states for me.... 15 if you include Washington DC. Probably as much as 21/22 (depending on whether DC counts) as I'm fairly sure I passed through Conneticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, both Virginias and both Carolinas.

Not completely sure as my family did camping trips to various places in the US when I was young. Also did a couple of trips to Florida with school that involved 24 hour bus rides to get there.

[Wrong Wheel Drive]

@Huzer Interesting, I dont really have too many states but aside from ND and AK, I have all of your missing states. I liked those state visiting maps like this one to represent where I have been. I am including everything that I had more than a flight layover in, so spent at least a few hours driving through and stopped somewhere. Alabama is the only one that I solely drove to the state to cross it off my list and turned around at the sign. I was in the Pensacola area and figured why not! I think at least one overnight in the others with just cumulative 8-10 hours in OK, never having stayed overnight though.

Its funny because this is accurately depicting flyover states for me quite well. My only cross country trip has been via i-40 and the others have all been hit via home bases in NJ or CA

My map prior to moving out West in 2017:

[Manwich]

@CB said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

I need to up my Canada trips, too: I still have four provinces and three territories to visit!

So far I've been to BC, Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. And of course I live in Ontario. So I only have 3 provinces and 3 territories yet to visit.

[Wrong Wheel Drive]

@Manwich said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

@CB said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

I need to up my Canada trips, too: I still have four provinces and three territories to visit!

So far I've been to BC, Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. And of course I live in Ontario. So I only have 3 provinces and 3 territories yet to visit.

Ahh yeah Canadia states should count too! Ive been to BC, ON, and QC. So I have visited more than 80% of the population centers lol.

[Manwich]

@Wrong-Wheel-Drive said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

@Manwich said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

@CB said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

I need to up my Canada trips, too: I still have four provinces and three territories to visit!

So far I've been to BC, Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. And of course I live in Ontario. So I only have 3 provinces and 3 territories yet to visit.

Ahh yeah Canadia states should count too! Ive been to BC, ON, and QC. So I have visited more than 80% of the population centers lol.

In Canada, we don't have states... we have provinces.

[glemon]

@glemon So I listed 45 states I have been in beyond airport hops-additional (or minus I guess) that I have been to but haven't stayed overnight:

Only Pennsylvania and Michigan fall off--

So been to 43 by the slept there rule.

[Roundbadge]

@Huzer
I believe my number is 32.

Arizona might be a questionable add as I only visited on the Hoover Dam tour. I did walk into the state, though.

[pip bip]

@Huzer two. NY and NJ (back in 2009)

[ash78]

@HammerheadFistpunch said in How many States in the US have you visited?:

my wife's hard and fast rule is that you must have done something of significance in each state.

Does trying to get Mike Pence hanged count (for DC)?

Asking for a friend...

[ash78]

If I include states where I lived as a baby/toddler, that's FL, PA, NY, and CA.

Using the "overnight" rule I can add AL, GA, NC, SC, TN, KS, MS, TX, CO, AZ, UT, MN, WI, VA, MD, DE, NJ, CT, RI, MO, NV, DC. So that's about 25 plus DC, and many of those include weeks of stays and multiple trips. There are very few places I've just passed through and not stayed -- IL, KY...that's about it. I touched NM at four corners

So really the Northern Plains/Rockies and PNW are really lacking for me, plus most of New England. Not intentionally avoiding them, it's just logistically complex. I've also somehow missed most of the central/lower Midwest for no particular reason...

Ironic that I've been to London 4 times and NYC for just one daytrip. Never been to Boston, Seattle, Portland, Chicago...but I turned away from cities a while back, not really my favorite places to visit except as a launching point for other stuff.

[FourMalibus]

@Huzer I think it's 29, though a couple of those are only pass through. I want to get to the PNW soon.

[JeRC1500]

Just one small part of the south missing. Have been to DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands too.

Way too many years traveling for business gets lots of coverage.

[derp]

visited:

driven through/stopped in/spent brief time in:

[pickup_man]

@Huzer 22 For full qualifications.

I dipped my toes into Idaho once for maybe 20 minutes of driving so that doesn't really count, and I had a layover in AZ so no count there. Also a short drive through NH between ME and MA. Kansas is iffy because while I've spent time in Kansas City (both KS and MS side) a couple of times that's right on the border and I haven't ventured into the state proper.

I'm going to argue against HammerheadFistpunch's wife's rule slightly too. While my time in Tennessee was just driving through, doing so in a 26' U-haul with your best friend while helping him move to Florida I'd say counts as something significant. Pretty sure we spent the night somewhere in TN as well.

[RPMesq.]

@Huzer 39 or 40, I think, plus DC and Puerto Rico. Spent the night in all but 3 (Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Kentucky), but did enough activities in each to count, I think. I’ve been to 30-ish more than once and 12 or 15 five times or more, including the 4 I’ve lived in (WA, CA, NY, AZ). I travel pretty regularly for work, and I road-tripped across the country when I moved from NY to WA.

Also, 6 Canadian provinces and 6 Mexican states.

[ash78]

@derp Wow -- the odds of missing most of the Northeast is pretty rare, since the world revolves around them

/s
//but there are lots of cities/airports/things there so it's still interesting

[BJ]

total: 16 states and 1 protectorate (Puerto Rico)
did something of significance: 10 states and 1 protectorate

[BJ]

@CB I've got 8 provinces and 1 territory!

BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, and NWT

[oldmxer]

@Huzer over half for sure, we made the loop from tx up to utah, down thru cali , then went to ny and niagra falls , came home thru detroit, then went to see indy 500 one year, so basically everything but far nw and far se, i've been very lucky , my grandparents did most of those when i was a kid, did the indy on 2013 with son and daughter in law, so I was either going on their dime or sharing expenses on all of em