Meme Time: Visited States + Visited Countries

[xela]

I know I've done the visited states one before, years ago; I'm not sure about visited countries.

visited 4 states (1.77%)
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visited 39 states (78%)
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I'd say "I haven't included any place where I've only been through the airport" — but it turns out there are no such places anymore. I do find it increasingly odd that, though I've lived on the East Coast for 20 years now and been up and down it any number of times, I've still somehow never set foot in Delaware. I mean, I know it's a small state, but still....

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I thought it might be interesting (to me, if no-one else) to compare the states I've visited to the ones I've spent at least one night in, and the ones I've actually lived in.

States I've spent at least one night in:

visited 27 states (54%)
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States I've lived in:

visited 6 states (12%)
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Hm. My life has been rather more Northerly (and M/W-centric) than I'd realized.

Comments

[danj17.livejournal.com]

yeah, i don't think i've ever set "foot" in delaware either. driven thru and paid the toll a few times....

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

I've always been fascinated by maps of the world, possibly ever since my dad drew (by hand and from memory) a huge A1 size map of the world dotted with illustrations representing various countries to go on my bedroom wall when I was very small. I remember Inca pyramids in Peru, an enormous grinning German dressed in lederhosen and clutching a beer tankard, and various animals and architecture - tigers in India, Pandas in China, kangaroos - you get the picture. (The US had Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty I think.)

One of these days I'll try and draw a big illustrated poster of the world too - though possibly not from memory!

I'm still making it my quest to visit as many countries as I can (going to Slovakia in less than 3 weeks) but I do find it strange that the one country I have not visited is the US! (Not counting an hours stopover in Florida airport on the way to Mexico - so technically I have visited North America.)


visited 38 states (16.8%)
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