12 North Carolina
I've been in TWO North Carolinas. One is the state, and the other is the WWII battleship which is now permanently moored in Wilmington. Ok, I admit that that's a cheap joke, but it must be said that if you're 11-year-old who is crazy about military history (and I was), visiting an actual battleship is pretty darn cool.
Wilmington was the southernmost point of our 1989 road trip. We stayed for nearly a full week with my aunt & uncle at their timeshare, which was fun. My cousin and a foreign exchange student from Japan that they were hosting were also there. That far south the Atlantic is more than warm enough for a kid from North Dakota to be comfortable swimming in it. I'm sure we did other touristy things while we were there, but other than visiting a branch of the North Carolina Aquarium which was located very close to Fort Fisher I don't recall them. Fort Fisher guarded the port of Wilmington during the Civil War, and was the last major Confederate port to be taken by the Union.
Oh, and I distinctly remember watching the time-travel movie The Final Countdown on TV. Why I remember this I couldn't begin to tell you. Lord knows the movie isn't any good.
I spent one other weekend in North Carolina in college, where I didn't do anything worth mentioning.
Scoreboard
Full Credit - 8: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina
Partial Credit - 3: Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland
No Credit - 1: South Carolina
Wilmington was the southernmost point of our 1989 road trip. We stayed for nearly a full week with my aunt & uncle at their timeshare, which was fun. My cousin and a foreign exchange student from Japan that they were hosting were also there. That far south the Atlantic is more than warm enough for a kid from North Dakota to be comfortable swimming in it. I'm sure we did other touristy things while we were there, but other than visiting a branch of the North Carolina Aquarium which was located very close to Fort Fisher I don't recall them. Fort Fisher guarded the port of Wilmington during the Civil War, and was the last major Confederate port to be taken by the Union.
Oh, and I distinctly remember watching the time-travel movie The Final Countdown on TV. Why I remember this I couldn't begin to tell you. Lord knows the movie isn't any good.
I spent one other weekend in North Carolina in college, where I didn't do anything worth mentioning.
Scoreboard
Full Credit - 8: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina
Partial Credit - 3: Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland
No Credit - 1: South Carolina