States

[Late]

Um, the furthest east I've ever been is Georgia. Or South Dakota. Whichever makes it further right on the map.

Some day, hopefully, I will make it to NY. Until then, I will remain way out west.

Edited October 14, 2006 by Late

[Chuck Nessa]

Nirvana.

[Late]

Nirvana.

I knew that was coming.

[Chuck Nessa]

Your NW location dictated it.

[Alexander]

Furthest west I've ever travelled is Las Vegas. Someday, I'd like to visit California.

[Late]

Alexander, when you get there, leave L.A. for last. San Francisco is much more interesting.

Chuck, you crack me up sometimes. Almost as much as Lester (Bowie).

[Jazzmoose]

Hmmm...counting just states, I've seen Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The best was probably Illinois in the summer. The worst was probably Illinois in the winter. Go figure...

I'd love to see the New Hampshire/Vermont area before I shuffle off, preferably in fall.

[Chuck Nessa]

IIRC, North Dakota and Maine are the only states I've missed. I might have hit ND.

Not counting the bogus states added when I was in middle school.

Edited October 14, 2006 by Chuck Nessa

[Late]

Damn, Chuck, what were you doing in Alaska?

Or, for that matter, Oregon?

[RDK]

I'd love to see the New Hampshire/Vermont area before I shuffle off, preferably in fall.

You're shuffling off in the fall? Sorry to hear that, Mark, though it does seem a good time to go...

[Jazzmoose]

Damn that language!!

[BERIGAN]

Damn that language!!

Damn that RDK! I was thinking I was going to be so funny, till I saw his post...dammit!

[BERIGAN]

Funny, my late Mother was born in Oregon, and she worked for Delta, but we never made it back there. Will have to get there someday. Been north, south, east, west, but haven't ever been in the North West, or the Dakotas, Colorado. Would like to go to Alaska before I shuffle off!(In the fall of 2050!) Have missed about 15 of the 50 states.

[JSngry]

I took a road gig w/a mediocre but working "hotel show band" back in 1981 and stayed with it for 15 months specifically to have the opportunity to see the US. The routing was lousy (one month's itenerary went from New Mexico to Alabama to Kansas to Calgary (international bonus points! ) to Washington DC, and the travel was by van, but by god, I got to see the US in real time. The only areas I didn't get to see were Washington/Oregon, New England, Alaska, & Hawaii. I've since had the opportunity to hit Hawaii, and the others remain on the "to do" list. We almost made the Pacific NW jaunt a few summers ago, but Toot Toot's lack of due dilligence necessitated a summer school session, so that didn't happen. But it will, as will all the others. LTB & I have made a New England vacation a top priority for our "retirement years", if/when we get to that point.

One thing I learned from all that travel was that this is a great country, even if it's largely populated by morons. They're beautiful morons, by god, and the more you see of them, the more you realize that being a moron is pretty much par for the course for humanity (and that we all carry the capacity for deep moron-ness within ourselves). Helps you appreciate those who aren't, as well as lessening the hostility towards those who are, unless they go on ahead and make it a point of militancy. Back then, there wasn't a whole lot of that going on except with the usual suspects. Things have changed though...

But hey - I still love America & its people. I'd encourage everybody who hasn't done so to hit the road and stay there as much as possible for as long as possible. It's an education you can't get any other way and its probably about as "true" an education as one can get. I still feel a void from having had extremely limited travel outside of North America, but that too is a project for the if/when years.

[7/4]

I've been around a little bit, but I wouldn't mind checking out Texas, Alaska, Michigan, Kansas or the great NorthWest. But I can't even get my ass down to Philly to hear Organissimo.

[alocispepraluger102]

to be totally plastered with someone(female) around to make sure i didnt hurt myself and ignore everything i should say. is that a state?

[JohnS]

Managed to visit sixteen so far. For the moment Oregon is a state I'd like to visit.

[7/4]

to be totally plastered with someone(female) around to make sure i didnt hurt myself and ignore everything i should say. is that a state?

State of yeha!

[brownie]

I traveled all around the USA with my wife back in 1976. A two-month voyage on Greyhound buses. From New York to SF via New Orleans and back via the plains. Loved it.

We had plans to make a return visit to the western States but cancelled this when the wife got pregnant.

Nowadays, our love affair with the States has ebbed! But one never knows! We talk about a new visit off and on...

[JSngry]

I traveled all around the USA with my wife back in 1976. A two-month voyage on Greyhound buses.

Did you take locals or expresses?

Locals can take you to some very unusual places...

[brownie]

I traveled all around the USA with my wife back in 1976. A two-month voyage on Greyhound buses.

Did you take locals or expresses?

Locals can take you to some very unusual places...

Both! And we went to some pretty unusual places.

My wife still gets goosepimples recalling the short stay we had in Albuquerque. We had a few minutes at the bus station and left the bus to catch some food. When we came back to reboard, we could not get to our seats. They were full of bloods. Some guy had been murdered while we were out of the bus. Welcome to Texas!

Those Greyhound travels were something else. We foreigners had a great deal at the time. A $99 fare would let you travel anywhere you wanted within the USA and within 99 days. Friends of us did this before we did and highly recommended the opportunity. Glad we tool the ride!

Only problem was that the Greyhound bus stations were downtown and there were not that many hotels/motels in those areas at the time!

[JSngry]

Dude, if you told anybody in Albuquerque that you thought you were in Texas, you're lucky that you didn't get murdered!

[brownie]

We kept our mouth shut

The guy who got it probably did not know any better

[JSngry]

Man, when I moved to Albuquerque, the only hump I had to get over was the fact that I ws from Texas. They hate us there!

[Dan Gould]

I guess I'm the opposite of Late - I've been to, or through, all of the NE and mid-Atlantic states from Mass. south. Most of the old Confederacy (except Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas). Small chunk of the plains (Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio).

And Vegas, er, Nevada.

So there isn't too much I've missed east of the Mississippi, but west, there are a lot of gaps.

However, I haven't really thought much about states/locations I'd like to visit. Maybe Seattle, San Francisco, the Grand Canyon ... that rather short list might have something to do with the fact that our travel interests tend to revolve around US history from colonial times to the Civil War, which tends to limit us to the Atlantic states and a bit west.