I was just playing around with Omnigraffle and created the map image below that shows all the states of the US I’ve visited for one reason or another. Two states that are still clear that I have actually been to are Michigan and Minnesota. My visits to these states were just a stop over at airports. I don’t really count that.
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Tennessee is my home. Even when I have been away for long periods of time, I have always been a Tennessee boy at heart.
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Washington was my place of residence for almost a year in 2001.
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I passed through Oregon while while moving to Seattle. I was working on a project in the Bay Area when I lived in Seattle, so I’ve passed through there often.
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California is a place I visit often. My employer is based here, as well as a majority of customer sites I’ve been to in the past year.
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Arkansas is of course right across the river from Memphis, so I had a lot of friends from there. I also drove straight across there a few times including when I moved to Seattle.
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I’ve been Texas plenty of times. The first time I was in Dallas I was almost killed. I didn’t realize the faux pas at the time, but it certainly was a mistake to ask what they were thinking making BBQ out of beef instead of pork.
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I passed through New Mexico on my way to Seattle. No cool stories. I just drove straight though.
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I also drove through Arizona on my way to Seattle. Nothing exciting happened there.
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On my way to Seattle, I nipped the bottom tip of Nevada. I was only there for the blink of an eye.
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California is a common destination for me. My employer is based there, as well as no small number of my customers. On my way to Seattle, I took the long way around Los Angeles.
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Oregon was the last state I went through during my move to Seattle. It was always the first state I would enter on my way back home to Tennessee.
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Idaho was also on the way home back to Tennessee.
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The first stop I made during my journey back to Tennessee was the Cracker Barrel in Ogden Utah. It was actually the closest on to Seattle at the time. I missed Cracker Barrel.
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Colorado was also on the way home. I also went to a customer site back in August for a discovery session. They are still asking for updates on the design.
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Kansas was flat.
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I have an uncle that lives in Iowa. We’ve visited him a few times.
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I have another uncle that lives in Indiana. I stayed up there with him when I was 13 for the summer.
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I’ve been to Illinois a few times. The wife and I went to Chicago a couple of years back.
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About five years ago I went to Stubenville Ohio for a conference at Franciscan University.
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I am in Pittsburgh right now, so I’ve obviously been to Pennsylvania. I would like to see the east side of the state sometime.
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I worked on a project In New Jersey back this past November. I can’t remember the name of the town, but it was due west from Newark. I wore my Braves cap my last day there in the mall and the airport. If looks could kill, I would’ve gone through a cats lives.
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Virginia is a state I just visited briefly while attending my friends wedding. He lived just outside of DC. I’ve been there too, but it’s not really a state.
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I went through boot camp at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. I have plenty of stories, but that’s for another post.
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Georgia’s a great state. I was on a project down in Atlanta the end of last year. Plus that’s where the Braves are from.
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I have a friend that used to live in Birmingham. Some friends of mine and I rove down there and spent a few days the summer between my junior and senior years in high school.
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I actually lived in Coldwater Mississippi for a while. I was in the Mississippi National Guard for six years.
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I was glad to leave Louisiana. No offense, I just didn’t like being there. It’s me, not you Louisiana.
Now what you may be asking if you’re a geography freak is a hard question to admit the answer to. When were you in Wyoming? Well I could say I was just testing you, that I left Wyoming in there to see if anyone would ask. I could lie. But the truth is much more fun. The truth is I just left in on accident. I didn’t realize it until after I had already uploaded the image to Flickr. To put it simply, I am just lazy to fix it. On the other hand, I could just say that I’m not fixing it so it’ll be an oddity, a conversation piece. But then again, why lie?