States I have slept in

[sptmet]

After this road trip, I'm down to 8 states in the lower 48 I haven't visited (and by visited I mean set foot in, including airport layovers). So I decided to tighten the metric for visited, and got the "states I have slept in". Here's the list with reasons

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[telecart]

mein



create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

[sptmet]

I'm curious where the pattern comes from. Seems like 2 separate lives, so to speak.

[telecart]

Heh, I did a major tour of North America a few years ago. I spent a month on the I-95, down and up the east coast, up to Canada, Toronto, down to Chicago, then accross the Badlands to Denver, Salt Lake City and up again through all the glorious National Parks to Canada again, Vancouver island, down to Seattle, Frisco, out to Vegas, and back to LA.

[sptmet]

Are the badlands worth visiting? I've been tempted to swing by Mt. Rushmore and so on, but I'm not sure after driving through Nevada that I'd like it.

[telecart]

Isn't Rushmore in Conneticut or something? Anyway, I wasn't there. I referred to Nebraska, Iowa, et al. as the badlands. It's just... Boring.

Like
I was in Des Moines.
and
err
it looked like shit.
:O

[sptmet]

Mt. Rushmore is actually in the Black Hills of South Dakota -> http://www.nps.gov/moru/, but there is a badlands national park -> http://www.nps.gov/badl/

I know what you mean about Iowa. The theme for the CA to IL drive at the end was "no more car, no more corn, no more cows".

[telecart]

Oh yeah, I wasn't in Badlands natl park, though I did visit The Arches Natl Park. That was awesome. The whole landscape is like out of a Road Runner cartoon.