There Are Places I Remember...
World66 has a great feature; You can create a map of all the places you've been (US States and/or Countries of the World). It seems I've been to more US States than I thought!
For purposes of this exercise, I only counted states I remember and places where I could get out and walk. Riding in a train through a state, without stopping, didn't count (otherwise there would have been more on my list). I also may have missed one or two. I can't remember if I've been to Maine...
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I was born in, and grew up in, Pennsylvania. My maternal cousins lived in Illinois and we visited there once when I was quite small. After that, for many summers, my family would meet my Aunt & Uncle and cousins halfway, in Ohio, to "trade" our Nana to the cousins for the summer (Nana lived in Pennsylvania as well). Also when I was much younger (and again in a reprise trip when I was in High School), my family visited the Wisconsin Dells.
From the time I was 5 until I was 18, every summer, my family would take a vacation in upper New York State, in the Adirondacks. In 1967, we traveled to Montreal for Expo '67. Other years we traveled around upper New York State and once or twice got into Massachusetts.
We also traveled to Washington DC one year and down into Virginia (to Luray Caverns (although neither trip was part of our regular summer vacation). After High School, my sister and I took a train trip to California, stopping off in Arizona to visit our Aunt & Uncle (who had moved from Illinois some years before).
My first grad school program was in Connecticut; driving from CT to PA, I went through NY and New Jersey. I got lost once taking the wrong exit off the New Jersey Garden State Parkway. I've also been to Princeton NJ and into New York City twice, the first time on a trip with my paternal Aunt and Uncle and a cousin, when I was twelve. (The second time was unmemorable).
My second grad school program was in Maryland. From there, I got into DC regularly, as well as parts of Virginia; Rich and I also took a trip to a small conference in Tampa, FL. After Grad school, Rich and I moved to California, taking Interstate 80 across the country in a 25-foot rental truck (with a Volkswagon Camper bus on the back). The truck's emergency break went out in Nebraska (not fun) and the Interstate was under construction through Salt Lake City, UT.
Since then, I've been to several states for conferences, including Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oregon. I've been to Washington State to visit Rich's brother and sister-in-law. From Washington, we once drove north to Vancouver, B.C. and to Victoria Island. Coincident with one of our conference trips to TX, we also attended my sister's wedding in Oklahoma City, OK.
In 1985 we were lucky enough to get to a conference in Denmark, preceded by a week in England and followed by a week in Finland. We also visited parts of Sweden (Stockholm), France (Paris for half an hour :-), and Germany (Bremerhaven) on that trip. Before returning home, we spent three days in Luxembourgh. In 1987 we went back, this time to England, Wales, and Ireland.
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