How many states in the US have you visited?

36 plus the District of Columbia Haven’t gotten to the deep south or plains/mountain states yet. Here are my mostly touristy comments which will probably annoy the natives no end with their banality. Particular favorites are in blue: Alabama - the extreme northern part.

Didn’t see anything too distinguished from the interstate Arizona - Sedona/Flagstaff/Grand Canyon area. Breathtaking California - just far northern. The redwoods are magnificent Colorado - Colorado Springs.

From one place, you face east and all you see are flat plains. You turn around and face west and you see 12,000+ ft peaks. Staggering.

Connecticut - grew up there. A hybrid of suburbia and quintessential New England Delaware - just passing through to other places Florida - beaches, South Beach, Key West, Everglades. Wonderful if you like sun and sand and can find an uncrowded spot.

The Everglades were remote and primeval Georgia - Savannah is a wonderful southern town full of beauty and history. This is probably my favorite southern place. Illinois - Chicago has a really great lakefront and museums.My brother lives there Indiana - passing through to elsewhere Iowa - passing through to elsewhere; first place I ever saw 360 degrees of cornfields Kansas - on a business trip.

Didn’t get out much Kentucky - on a business trip to Louisville. Took a side trip to Churchill Downs (Kentucky Derby) where my $5 bet paid 7 to 1. Woo-hoo!

Should have bet the farm! Maine - unsurpassed beauty on the coast. Our favorite New England bed and breakfast spot Maryland - Baltimore harbor has been redeveloped/regentrified and has lots of wonderful things for families to do Massachusetts - too close to home so nothing too special.

Boston and the Freedom Trail are great trips. You see the real places where those events you read about in history took place. Cape Cod National Seashore is beautiful and unspoiled Michigan - passing through to elsewhere.

Spent a little bit of time at Ann Arbor at the university but nothing special sticks out about the place. Would like to get to the Upper Peninsula someday Minnesota - on a business trip. Only went to Mall of America, the biggest mall in the US.

Rode the indoor roller coaster there Missouri - the first place I actually touched the Mississippi River. One of my favorite museums is under the Gateway Arch - The Museum of the American Expansion, about westward settlement. New Hampshire - Mount Washington, skiing.

Great New England ambience if you get far enough away from Boston New Jersey - passing through to elsewhere. New York - NYC, the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area, and the Adirondacks. Lots of variety in this state.

NYC’s appeal goes without saying, the Falls are humbling North Carolina - I live here now. Came here for the beaches. Wide, clean, uncrowded.

The Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains in the western part of the state are beautiful too. Ohio - passing through to elsewhere Oregon - unbelievably beautiful forests make you feel tiny. Beautiful, unspoiled coastline.

This is the first place I saw the Pacific Ocean. It’s my favorite western state. Pennsylvania - the historical sites in Philadelphia are inspiring.

You stand in the very room where Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc. , stood. Rhode Island - beautiful coastline, rural New Engand farm atmosphere outside of the suburbs South Carolina - Charleston - another beautiful, historical southern town. South Dakota - on a business trip in December.

Struck me as bleak and desolate but the weather had a lot to do with it, I’m sure. Wide open plain. People actually decorated their tractors for Christmas.

Hadn’t ever seen that before... Tennessee - mostly on business trips. Didn’t get out much Texas - Austin, Dallas, Houston on business. A city is a city.... sorry.

Vermont - beautiful green mountains, Lake Champlain, quintessential New England Virginia - mostly passing through to other places Washington - much like Oregon. I was there before Seattle’s emergence as THE place, so it’s probably not at all like I remember it Washington DC - awesome monuments and architecture. You can just feel the importance of the place West Virginia - passing through to other places Wisconsin - passing through to other places Have not been to: Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, or Wyoming.

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Welll... Let's see. I've visited where I actually spent some time and got to look around some. Missouri--I was born and raised there, but have now lived more than half of my life in PA.

I still have family there, and return regularly. The Ozarks. Elephant Rock.

Johnson Shut-ins. My old home town. KC.

The Gateway Arch. I love the place. California--Muir Woods!

San Franscisco! MUIR WOODS! What a wonderful place!

Washington DC--The fabulous Smithsonian Museums. What a wonderful resource! Maryland--Visiting family, been on day trips to baltimore.

Nothing especially special New Jersey--Brigantine and Atlantic City. I could care less about Atlantic City--would never decide to go again, as gambling does nothing sfor me--but the shore at Brigantine was lovely. Virginia--I've been to the Virginia Beach area, and to Chincoteageu/Assateague.

I love Chincoteague, and go there at every opportunity. I have a cousin with a house there, and THAT is the way to go to the shore, as far as I am concerned. New York--been to the Orvis installation at Milford, and to the city.

Spent 3 weeks in NYC doing costume work for a show at the Joyce Theatre of Dance. It was a great time, but I'm not really a city person, and those days are over. Florida--visiting grandparents.

We did a bunch of the attractions, and it was fun, but not high on my list. Minnesota--Daughter intercviewed for college--and I was really taken with St Paul. My spouse has spent lots of time in MN and wants to move there.

I'm game for it, if we can find jobs! New Orleans, Louisiana--pre-Katrina... GREAT food. GREAT FOOD!

It was a trade show, but we went out to eat every night and I love the food! Delaware--the shore again. I'm glad I went--family took us, sefveral times--but I don't like the commercialized beaches much at all.

These are places I spent some time, but wasn't able to get out and do much Ohio--Interviewed there. Wisconsin--Interviewed there. Texas--Was doing a trade show Illinois--Was doing a trade show--but Cows on Parade was up when we were there, and friends in the area gave me a private tour.

LOVE the cows! Georgia--Was doing a trade show Kansas--hunting day trip, and to visit a friend--went to Konza, which I loved. My choice for where go go back?

Both MO (it's home, really, and Mom's there, and my brother and his family, and a ton of cousins) and Virginia. As far as I'm concerned, Chincoteague Virginia is one of my very favorite places on earth. Driving or biking over to Assateague from Chincoteague--and having the beach just be THE BEACH--and that whole part of the island as bird santuary?

That's paradise as far as I'm concerned. Sources: Personal experience Google Map View Larger Map Any time of the year--except for Pony Penning Days. TOOOO many people then!.

48...the "lower" 48 aka the "contiguous" states When I was growing up, my parents liked to travel...heck, they still do, and so do I. But the main difference was, they liked to travel by car, whereas these days, I’d prefer to fly. They would take 3 weeks off in the summer and drive to whatever destination we would go to.In 1980, we went to California (from northern Minnesota).

But instead of taking a direct route we went north to Canada...into Manitoba, west to Saskatchewan, to Alberta, to British Columbia, then down into the states into Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and back to Minnesota. In 1981 we went to Maine via Ontario and Quebec, then went home via New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Deleware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and back to Minnesota. These are the first trips I really remember, but I know that I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and that my parents moved to Elmira, New York, to another house in Elmira, then to Fargo, North Dakota, then to another place in Fargo, then back to one town in Minnesota, before settling where we did in Northern Minnesota, and that was when I was 5.

When we lived in North Dakota, and I was 3, my parents took me to Florida...I don’t really remember that trip, though there are many parts of it which are legendary in my family. My understanding is that between the Florida trip and one other trip they made with me which I don’t remember, we hit the other southern and southeastern states not previously mentioned.My parents also took me to Yellowstone when I was too young to remember. Since then I’ve gone to Illinois a few times, Iowa a couple, California once more, Texas once, Georgia once, Massachussetts once, Maine once more, Ohio once, and Nevada once, many of these trips were by car and I hit many other states on the way.

I don't remember much about a few of the states, but I'll tell you my favorite places. Maine is amazing, it's like a different world...the closest thing we have to Europe in this country, in fact that could be said about most of the New England states. The old world charm and character is still in tact in the smaller towns.

There is so much history in those areas, yet the whole Eastern seaboard is like one huge city...so you have the best of both worlds. The seafood is amazing, there is so much beach to be had as well. Chicago is one of my favorite urban areas to visit, there is so much to see and do, even though I've spent nearly a week there on probably 5 different occassions, I can't get enough of that town.

Museum Campus alone could take a week to get through. I loved the West Coast as well, at least in places....parts of Washington and Oregon are beautiful, yet very progressive and hip, with plenty of culture. And California is like 4 different states rolled into one...with mountains, beaches, huge urban areas and great expanses of wilderness....huge world class cities, and sleepy small towns.

But all that having been said, I grew up from age 5 until 23, I lived in a very small town in northern Minnesota...a town smaller than it's population (if that makes sense). What I mean by that is I've been through towns with 500 people which have Wal-Marts and McDonalds'....my town of 5,000 had neither. The town next door, the town with the largest land area of any town in Minnesota, did have a McDonald's but not much else, even though it had 20,000 people.

No Target, no Wal-Mart, not even a Burger King...the closest of any of these was an hour away. And that's how they like it. Of course now, the bigger of the two towns does have a Wal-Mart (though everything else closed down when it came to town), and the smaller of the two does now have a McDonald's.

But growing up there was no culture, one movie theater with 3 screens, no theater, no places to buy CDs, no bookstores...and I lived 4 miles outside the smaller of the two towns, in an area where we couldn't even get cable. Nowadays there are satellites, but you still can't get high speed internet. I'm a big city kind of guy...I don't fit in where there is nothing to do but drink and have sex...not that those things aren't fun, but I need a bit more than that in life.

So, I moved to the Twin Cities area in 1994 after college, not my first choice...I've never been into Minnesota weather, and Minneapolis/St.Paul doesn't have the glamour of other big cities, but any judgements I made about this being a nothing town were way misguided. We have SO much culture, SO much shopping, SO much live music, SO much theater, SO much nature and wildlife...anything you could possibly want is right HERE in my backyard. There is really nothing I want to see or do that isn't here in some way, shape or form.

So, other than the weather, I can't imagine a place I'd rather be.It's a great place to raise my son and I can always find more than one thing to do. I've done more than one vacation where I've just taken a week off and "visited" my home town, and of all the places I've traveled, the travel to my own home town has been among the most interesting...so if I had to pick my favorite place to visit, I'd say the Twin Cities of Minnesota...at least if you're talking US only. Now, we bring Europe into it, and that's a whole new ball game...

One half of them Arizona California Delaware Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Maryland Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming I've also been to Washington D.C. It's difficult to pick a favorite, though I really did like the historical sites in Virginia and Washington D.C. , though right now I think I would say that Illinois is my favorite to visit because its convenient and I love the city of Chicago. It's a beautiful city full of interesting places to go and fun things to do. Mistral's Recommendations Fodor's Around Chicago with Kids, 2nd Edition: 68 Great Things to Do Together (Around the City with Kids) Amazon List Price: $11.00 Used from: $1.30 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) .

I have visited 25 states and the District of Columbia. They are all of the states of the old Confederacy except Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, all of the mid Atlantic states except Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Nevada, Arizona, New York and all of the New England states. It is really hard to pen down a favorite.

Vermont is absolutely beautiful as is Maine, Gettysburg speaks to me in a way that no other place does and there is no more beautiful city than Savannah Georgia. Sources: my travels .

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