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Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 8962624)
My wife's sister, actually.
TBH we're all a bit relieved for various reasons. On top of the whole is-she-marrying-someone not-right-for-her issue I have to say Hawaii has never been near the top of my places I want to visit list. |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by Kaffy Mintcake
(Post 8962632)
Don't think I didn't notice that you ignored my Ohio offer. :sneaky:
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Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 8962641)
well sell it to me then - come on, what have you got?
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Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by Seneca21
(Post 8962647)
Toledo.
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 8962641)
well sell it to me then - come on, what have you got?
Wait - hey - I live here! That counts for a little something, right? ;) Were you someone who had been to an Ohio airport? Not Cincinnati I assume? |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by Kaffy Mintcake
(Post 8962658)
Oh wow, the pressure! I need to think a bit about what would most appeal to Elfman ...
Wait - hey - I live here! That counts for a little something, right? ;) Were you someone who had been to an Ohio airport? Not Cincinnati I assume? OK, so if I ever come to southern Ohio I've got a place to stay sorted (I assume you have a spare room or a habitable basement), but what about sights, stuff to do? Got any castles? |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 8962669)
No, I've never been through an Ohio airport.
OK, so if I ever come to southern Ohio I've got a place to stay sorted (I assume you have a spare room or a habitable basement), but what about sights, stuff to do? Got any castles? |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 8962669)
No, I've never been through an Ohio airport.
OK, so if I ever come to southern Ohio I've got a place to stay sorted (I assume you have a spare room or a habitable basement), but what about sights, stuff to do? Got any castles? Regarding castles - funny you should ask! Here's our local castle: http://www.lovelandcastle.com/ I bet you didn't think I'd have one to post, did you?. ;) Aside from that we have professional sports (that you can afford to attend!), historic neighborhoods (by US standards), a symphony, opera, ballet, lots of theater, duck boat tours, an aquarium, one of the only Hoffbrauhaus in the US and local chili that has cocoa and cinnamon in it. Oh ... and I hear they're rebuilding Butter Jesus. We could roadtrip north to include that in your itinerary! |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by Seneca21
(Post 8962676)
Of course they have. Toledo has a great castle on the corner of Jefferson and Ontario, Fort Meigs, active in the War of 1812, and The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo.
What Toledo has - is The Mud Hens and Tony Packo's. Nuff said. |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by Kaffy Mintcake
(Post 8962680)
IRegarding castles - funny you should ask! Here's our local castle:
http://www.lovelandcastle.com/ I bet you didn't think I'd have one to post, did you?. |
Re: How many states have you visited?
34 states, two territories
Massachusetts New York New Jersey Delaware Rhode Island Connecticut West Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Florida Georgia Kentucky Tennessee Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Michigan Missouri Texas Iowa Minnesota Oklahoma Nebraska Colorado Utah Nevada Arizona California Washington Hawaii District of Columbia Johnston Atoll (US Possession) |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by MrEmjoy
(Post 8962063)
You missed Misery. :huh:
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Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by Macca67
(Post 8961298)
Depends on what characterises a 'visit'. The missus and I have a quasi competition on this where she argues she can claim a state if she has made a flight connection through the state. I say no way - shouldn't count.
Mrs tonrob reckons you have to at least stay overnight to count a state. That rules a few out that I've driven though. My visit to Arkansas was simply a 30 minute jaunt in the car from Memphis, but I did stop to have a pee while there so I think you may need to pee in a state to count it. (In which case would a poo count double?) I will be sleeping in Iowa next week, but my Wisconsin visit will be as shameless as my Arkansas one (note to self - drink three cups of tea before setting out just to make sure). |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Of the lower 48 I have not been to:
WY SD MI ME Hmm, so that's 44. Each state I have either set foot in (not an airport) or been through on Amtrak or driven through. If you only count states where I've overnighted in a land hotel then it's 17 plus DC. |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 8962461)
what about when you drive 20 yards over the state line, have your picture taken by the "Welcome to South Carolina" sign and then leave, as my sister in law's now ex-fiancee did last summer just to tick another state off the list?
1. It's just not in the spirit of the game, 2. Borderline twattish behaviour. Not hard to see why the SiL dumped him. |
Re: How many states have you visited?
Originally Posted by tonrob
(Post 8963155)
It's a great question, and one I've debated with friends on and off for a while. On one of my early trips to Florida the plane stopped at Bangor on the way, so for years I was saying I'd "visited Maine". Later on when I'd been to a few more states it felt silly to claim that one as I hadn't even got off the plane. (Now living in New England I have of course made several 'legitimate' Maine trips).
Mrs tonrob reckons you have to at least stay overnight to count a state. That rules a few out that I've driven though. My visit to Arkansas was simply a 30 minute jaunt in the car from Memphis, but I did stop to have a pee while there so I think you may need to pee in a state to count it. (In which case would a poo count double?) I will be sleeping in Iowa next week, but my Wisconsin visit will be as shameless as my Arkansas one (note to self - drink three cups of tea before setting out just to make sure). As a minimum to qualify I think you need the following: a. At least 1 hour on the ground on state territory b. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and/or beers at a local establishment, and most importantly, c. A T-Shirt. |
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