The road is long and the song is gone

States I've visited:



... I think. I paused for a long time at Nebraska and Kansas. I think it's possible we drove through a portion of one or the other (or both) leaving Texas in 1988, but I have no particular memory of either so I decided not to click on them. All of the others, even from the trip to Minnesota when I was 5, I remember some landmark or story, etc.


States I've visited as an adult (meaning I've excluded the states my dad drove us through on family vacations):




That's kind of sad, particularly when you consider that the trips to Hawaii, Florida, and Missouri were for work. Also, leaving Arizona on there is a *complete* cheat, and was unintentional. I justified it because when I drove to and from Las Vegas (twice) a few years back, technically I was in Arizona for maybe 5 minutes each way (basically you pass an entering Arizona sign, blink, and pass the entering Nevada sign). That block of states on the west coast in my adult trips were all road trips (all solo, unless I'm blocking something out) - aside from one trip to Texas when I was one year old I didn't fly until I was almost 26. I have fond and vivid memories of all of those trips, however, even the 14 hour day all by myself, or the night I slept in my clothes because the motel I was in freaked me out (not helped by having watched some of Psycho two nights earlier).