Thanks to a grandfather with a travel trailer and 5 weeks of vacation annuallly, by Dave’s rules I got most of the lower 48 states and all Canadian provinces west of Montreal by the time I was 16. I’m now missing only Vermont, Alaska, and Hawaii. If you go to Seattle, leave time for visiting Vancouver and Olympic National Park. And if you ever wander out to the Valley of the Sun, let me know!

Mike

I think rolling through the state on a bus should count as “being there”. You’ve gotten to see what really goes on there, even if you didn’t get to interact. You DID get to observe and orient around the local culture.

You really do need to get out to the western states. There’s so much you can’t see east of the Rockies!

Happy Trails,

Mike

Thanks for the kind words! I’m afraid I got to observe a little too much of the culture of Greyhound lines, but… already possessing 279 electoral votes worth of states visited… I’m not too worried.

(If I had to choose, I would give myself Tennessee but relinquish Mississippi and Georgia. But my friend Dave gave me the rules he keeps scores with, so I’ll keep the current system to keep things equal to him…)

I definitely want to see things farther west. Seattle has long been on the list of things I must see, and after I discovered my farmer grandfather once spent a summer in Los Angeles, I’ve been anxious to see that, too.