Monday, January 18, 2010

wasting time (in an educational way!)

While doing something entirely unrelated (OK! So I was on Ravelry again!), I found this cool map that charts how many states you have visited. I was surprised to see that I am at 23 states, though nowhere close to my parents who have visited 48.



visited 23 states (46%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

Lucky for me that I live in the Northeast. You can knock off quite a few states just by driving from New Jersey to Maine. Wondering about South Dakota there all by its lonesome? That is thanks to my big firm lawyering days, wherein I (and a bunch of other lawyers) flew into South Dakota, took a deposition, and flew back, all in one very long workday. Primo was only a few months old, so I had to haul a giant breastpump there and back, in the days before they came disguised in a chic briefcase-like bag, and find a place to pump in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, in the days before rooms were set aside for such things. Good times.

Try your own map; what are your results?

7 comments:

  1. Kris...I'm Beth's daughter. She thought you might be knitting Fetching, so I looked, and you're on ravelry! I'm Saille, if you'd like to friend me.

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  2. You can come visit us and check Texas off your list....and we're only an hour south of Oklahoma...two for the price of one.....

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  3. Oh, and I had 36.....I'm missing Maine and everything north of Colorado from the Pacific Coast to the Great Lakes.

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  4. 36 blows my 23 out of the water! I would love to come see you and getting two more states would be an added bonus. When he was little my oldest wanted to visit Texas in the worst way. I think it was because of Sandy on Spongebob.

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  5. I have been in 43 (OK, we have lived in many of those!), but Frank is the winner - he has 48 (only lacks Hawaii and North Dakota). He has kept track of our girls' states since they were little. How scary to know others do the same! Sarah's mom :>)

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  6. I'm only at 25. Most of those because at 16, my parents stuck me on a 6 week coast to coast teen bus tour trip. It was excellent. A number of others were due to some business travel before I gave my lawyering days too. I had to smile, I had a in-out same day trip from NJ to Fargo, ND for a two hour meeting.

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  7. Cool map. I've been more places than I thought!

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