Our 50 states (and provinces/territories)

Concert: Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana, Oregon.

Wow, that just seems kind of sad.

 

As best as I can remember, I've got 102 U.S. airports (states but not territories). Holy crap, that's a lot of time watching people try to remove their refrigerator-sized luggage from the overhead bin so the rest of us can finally get off the plane.

 

Starting a new category: State/provincial capitals (don't have to have visited the building, just the city):

Illinois (Springfield); Iowa (Des Moines); Missouri (Jefferson City); Indiana (Indianapolis); Tennessee (Nashville); Alabama (Montgomery); Mississippi (Jackson); Florida (Tallahassee); Georgia (Atlanta); South Carolina (Columbia); Connecticut (Hartford); Massachusetts (Boston); Kansas (Topeka); Colorado (Denver); Arizona (Phoenix); Wyoming (Cheyenne); Ontario (Toronto).

I know at least one person who's been to Juneau, Alaska -- a co-worker used to work up there.

 

Arizona, California, Colorado*, Connecticut, Georgia*, Ohio*, Oklahoma, Oregon, Nevada, New York, Texas, Utah*, Washington

* - airport layover

 

A hobby of mine is to visit college campuses, so love that addition. I keep a nicely framed map of college campuses nationwide for pushpins on my basement 'map wall.'

 

Capitals (and capitols)

• Alabama - Montgomery - passing through
• Alaska - Juneau (+capitol) - cruise ship port
• Arkansas - Little Rock - just passing through on way to Fayetteville
• Colorado - Denver (+capitol) - home of some in-laws
• District of Columbia - obvi
• Florida - Tallahassee (+capitol) - home of my alma mater
• Georgia - Atlanta
• Iowa - Des Moines (+capitol) - stopped on the way to see bkc game in Iowa City
• Kansas - Topeka - never left I-70, though, where it's visible from the highway
• Maryland - Annapolis - side trip duing a DC visit
• Nebraska - Lincoln (+capitol) - then-futuer mother-in-law lived there at the time
• North Carolina - Raleigh - side trip to earn a pin for visiting NC State
• Ohio - Columbus (+capitol) - my birthplace
• Oklahoma - OKC (+capitol) - visited during a day-trip to WCWS
• South Carolina - Columbia (+capitol) - multiple times to attend a scholastic journalism camp
• Tennessee - Nashville - just passing through city
• Texas - Austin (+capitol) - headquarters of a former employer
• Utah - Salt Lake City - might not count. Airport layover.
• West Virginia - on the way to Columbus from Florida. Viewed from the interstate

 

Been to Juneau twice — once for a job interview, then on an Inside Passage cruise. The interview was just after cruise season ended, in October ... a totally different city from when the hordes of cruise ship passengers are dumped on downtown. I love southeast Alaska, but a few things just weren't right about the job and the timing of taking it, and it ended up being the right decision to turn it down.

Other capital cities: Phoenix, Springfield, Indianapolis, Lansing, Madison, St. Paul, Des Moines, Jefferson City, Lincoln, Denver, Boise, Salem, Olympia, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe. And in Canada, Victoria, B.C., which is probably the most beautiful capital city I've visited.

 

We like to visit college campuses on the road too:

Ohio State, UCLA, Duke, NC State, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, McGill

 

State capitals: Birmingham (corporate headquarters of a place I used to work). Phoenix, Sacramento, Denver, Hartford, Dover (my home state!), Boise, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Baton Rouge, Augusta, Annapolis, Boston (of course), Lansing, St. Paul, Jackson, Concord, Santa Fe, Albany, Raleigh, Columbus, Harrisburg, Providence, Nashville, Austin, Salt Lake, Montpelier, Richmond, Madison.

 

Birmingham, huh?

 

Damn Yankees.

 

I've lived in three state capital cities in my life, but have never set foot in an actual capitol building.