11 New York
Ah, New York. My dad grew up near the city. My mom grew up on the western edge of the state. They met in college at SUNY-Albany. My three deceased grandparents all were living in the state when they died, and my last remaining grandparent lives there to this day. My parents have a total of 11 living siblings, 8 of whom live in New York. The majority of my first cousins live there as well. Needless to say, we've been back to visit more times than I can conveniently count. Heck, I've been to New York more times for funerals and weddings than I've been to a good half the other states at all. It's entirely possible that I've spent more days in New York than I have in any other state that I didn't actually live in, although I think Minnesota may have a slight edge there.
Notable recent visits includes long Christmas-time family trips to NYC in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005, plus a summer trip to the city and the Hamptons in 2006. Between these trips and several childhood excursions I've been to every major NYC tourist attraction, including but not limited to the Met, MoMa, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Empire State Building, The Cloisters, Yankee Stadium (RIP), Shea Stadium (nobody misses it) the Central Park Zoo, the Bronx Zoo, the Brooklyn Bridge, Rockefeller Center, the Intrepid, Times Square and a host of Broadway theaters.
There have been equally numerous trips to the western part of the state, but there are fewer notable attractions there. Niagara Falls is the only one that comes to mind, really.
I'm always up to return to the City; it's not like I could exhaust the entertainment potential there and I have tons of friends in the area to boot. Outside of that, the only major attraction in the state I feel the need to visit is The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Scoreboard
Full Credit - 7: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York
Partial Credit - 3: Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland
No Credit - 1: South Carolina
Notable recent visits includes long Christmas-time family trips to NYC in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005, plus a summer trip to the city and the Hamptons in 2006. Between these trips and several childhood excursions I've been to every major NYC tourist attraction, including but not limited to the Met, MoMa, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Empire State Building, The Cloisters, Yankee Stadium (RIP), Shea Stadium (nobody misses it) the Central Park Zoo, the Bronx Zoo, the Brooklyn Bridge, Rockefeller Center, the Intrepid, Times Square and a host of Broadway theaters.
There have been equally numerous trips to the western part of the state, but there are fewer notable attractions there. Niagara Falls is the only one that comes to mind, really.
I'm always up to return to the City; it's not like I could exhaust the entertainment potential there and I have tons of friends in the area to boot. Outside of that, the only major attraction in the state I feel the need to visit is The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Scoreboard
Full Credit - 7: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York
Partial Credit - 3: Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland
No Credit - 1: South Carolina