the cheese stands alone

Over the River and Through the Woods

Since virtually everyone who is anyone (or who likes to do these things, which I do) is doing the "Visited States" map. So I did (see extended version.)
Actually, I could have redded all 48 contiguous states, plus Hawaii. But I chose to just count the states I could remember being in rather than just driving through. I've driven back and forth across and up and down and diagonally this country more times than I can count, between the ages of 25 and 27, because for that brief time I was a driver for North American Van Lines.
And someday, little ones, when I don't have a particularly nasty aquarium to clean, I'll tell you some tales of it.
You think I see some weirdness just hanging out near home? There's a whole country full of freaks out there, and I saw most of them.

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

PS... I didn't drive to Hawaii, in case you wondered and want to borrow my aqua-car. We used to live there via the GM1's shore duty.