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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:22 pm
by AuthorTony
You don't think you can find a reason to drive the 4 hours to Michigan at any point for the rest of your life? Yikes.
I'd still like to travel. As for Michigan in particular, I'd love to see the upper peninsula.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:28 pm
by dodint
Yeah, that was kind of a loaded statement on my part. 4 hours gets you in the Toledo/Detroit corridor. ;)

I go racing near Grand Haven and it's about 7 hours, but that's all the way to Lake Michigan.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:35 pm
by robbiestoupe
States I've yet to visit: VT, TN, AL, AR, MS, OK, MO, KS, NE, WI, MN, ND, SD, NM, WA, OR, AK, HI

Could knock several off the list this year if we end up driving to Texas.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:36 pm
by dodint
My one drive from Arizona knocked a ton off of my list and connected my west-to-east-coast completion.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:36 pm
by shafnutz05
Yeah, that was kind of a loaded statement on my part. 4 hours gets you in the Toledo/Detroit corridor. ;)

I go racing near Grand Haven and it's about 7 hours, but that's all the way to Lake Michigan.
I've driven out that way a few times, and have to say that's the first time I've ever heard the phrase "Toledo/Detroit corridor" used. :lol:

That area between Toledo and Detroit on I-75 is surprisingly rural given that it runs along the western shore of Lake Erie.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:43 pm
by Dickie Dunn
AL, AL, AR, HI, IA, ID, KY, LA, MN, MI, MO, ND, NE, NM, OK, OR, UT, and WA left on my list. Honestly have no desire to visit at least half of those.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:44 pm
by LITT
RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, MD, PA, OH, MI, WI, IL, IN, KY, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, SC, NC, VA, AZ, NV, CA, MO, HI, WY

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:46 pm
by robbiestoupe
My one drive from Arizona knocked a ton off of my list and connected my west-to-east-coast completion.
In Ticket to Ride you'd be awarded 5 bonus points

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:59 pm
by RonnieFranchise
Agree that layovers don’t count. You have to legit exit a secured area and at least experience something in that state.

I only got Alabama because I spent a week in Corinth, MS and one evening drove across the border, bought groceries at a Piggly Wiggly, then drove down the Natchez Trace back across the border to Tupelo, went past Elvis’ birthplace and then back up to Corinth. Really nice drive.

That was 19 years ago this week, the opening ceremony for the Salt Lake Olympics was the night before I flew home, 2/8/02.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:07 pm
by eddy
You don't think you can find a reason to drive the 4 hours to Michigan at any point for the rest of your life? Yikes.
I'd still like to travel. As for Michigan in particular, I'd love to see the upper peninsula.
Legalized edibles and mackinac island

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:26 pm
by tifosi77
Train travel should count. Seeing a state by train is not the same as flying over it.
You have to legit exit a secured area and at least experience something in that state.
Train and car travel are the same imo, in terms of the 'experience'. Therefore, train travel should not count.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:29 pm
by dodint
What?

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:30 pm
by MR25
PA, OH, WV, NJ, MD, DE, VA, IN, KY, NC, SC, GA, FL, CO, CA, and I think NY. Might've stopped in TN for gas once, and have had layovers in Dallas, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, and Chicago (but never left the airport).

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:30 pm
by NTP66
Visited: NY, RI, CT, NH, MA, ME, NJ, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, TX, KS, MO, WI, MN, CA, HI
Would consider visiting: CO, WY, NV, TN
Get ****: The rest

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:32 pm
by nocera
Meh. Amtrak goes through some old towns that the highways bypass. And I didn't need to leave the station to know that I experienced all that Kansas had to offer.

By the way, and I know this isn't what you're saying, but the Southwest Chief offers a far more enjoyable and scenic route through Arizona/New Mexico than I-40.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:32 pm
by nocera
Train travel should count. Seeing a state by train is not the same as flying over it.
You have to legit exit a secured area and at least experience something in that state.
Train and car travel are the same imo, in terms of the 'experience'. Therefore, train travel should not count.
Meh. Amtrak goes through some old towns that the highways bypass. And I didn't need to leave the station to know that I experienced all that Kansas had to offer.

By the way, and I know this isn't what you're saying, but the Southwest Chief offers a far more enjoyable and scenic route through Arizona/New Mexico than I-40.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:32 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
Not counting airports the only part of the country I have never been to are WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, UT and AZ, NM.

ME is the only other state.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:41 pm
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
anyone that counts not leaving an airport as visiting a state is an idiot and I hate them

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:45 pm
by NTP66
I definitely don't count a layover as 'visiting'.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:46 pm
by nocera
I agree layovers are not visiting a state. Spending hours driving through (or riding a train through it) does count though. This will be the hill on which I die.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:47 pm
by NTP66
I agree layovers are not visiting a state. Spending hours driving through (or riding a train through it) does count though. This will be the hill on which I die.
I don't think this is unreasonable.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:47 pm
by dodint
Yeah. Saying crossing a state on a train is the same as driving across it is just a really bad take.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:47 pm
by MalkinIsMyHomeboy
I agree layovers are not visiting a state. Spending hours driving through (or riding a train through it) does count though. This will be the hill on which I die.
if you get out of the car to experience things in the state (other than gas stations) then I agree

if you literally just drive through without stopping, I don't consider that visiting the state

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:48 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
I only count "spent the night" as visiting a state.

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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:49 pm
by nocera
I only count "spent the night" as visiting a state.
Now this is an extra bad take.