Color your map!

CharmedPam · October 2022

Since we’re talking about Various States and all…

https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.html?fbclid=IwAR2xbifELzf18r1RxmfpC2t3XnLK0kDfP9JiVpWg-5mLAv-04Kc4v6nrB_Q

short+sassy · October 2022

@CharmedPam, fun! I forgot I've stopped in KY also. And probably TN or VA, but I'm not sure which. My friend and I drove from IL to NC, so I know we had to have driven through one of them.

Still have more work to do, if I want to cover all 50 states. Especially the Midwest and New England. But that's also not a goal of mine, so I'm not too concerned, lol.

The only reason CO got a color at all from me is because I've had layovers a few times in the Denver airport.

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CharmedPam · October 2022

I used orange for any state I slept overnight in… so my score was a tad higher. Visited and stopped confused me - because to me, that’s the same thing….?
edit; so go back and orange out overnight stays! GA gets one @short+sassy

edit, my legend;
Red - “mail addressed to me has been sent to this state”
Orange - “I stayed at least one night in this state”
Yellow - “I did something fun or something known for this state, but didn’t stay overnight”
Green - “just passing by, and stopped to eat, see something or use your shitter”
(see? Visited and stopped are so interchangeable)
Blue - “just passing through”
Purple - “Bucket list state”
White - “No desire. None. Whatsoever”.

short+sassy · October 2022

CharmedPam said:

I used orange for any state I slept overnight in… so my score was a tad higher. Visited and stopped confused me - because to me, that’s the same thing….?
edit; so go back and orange out overnight stays! GA gets one @short+sassy

To me, "orange" was FL because I lived there for 3 months. But it wasn't a vacation and I was only staying temporarily.

For me, overnight at least once was "Visited Here".

I had trouble with "Stopped Here" and "Passed Here". Those are the same to me. I guess the difference is "passing" is you don't even get out of the car...or the airport. But stopping is getting gas or a meal.

By that definition, I should have colored AR "Stopped Here", because we at least stopped for gas there on our way to/from Branson last month.

Even though it borders Louisiana, I've never visited there because it is a long trip. Just driven through it a few times. Sorry, AR. You're a boring state and there is no reason to visit you.

short+sassy · October 2022

CharmedPam said:

I used orange for any state I slept overnight in… so my score was a tad higher. Visited and stopped confused me - because to me, that’s the same thing….?
edit; so go back and orange out overnight stays! GA gets one @short+sassy

edit, my legend;
Red - “mail addressed to me has been sent to this state”
Orange - “I stayed at least one night in this state”
Yellow - “I did something fun or something known for this state, but didn’t stay overnight”
Green - “just passing by, and stopped to eat, see something or use your shitter”
(see? Visited and stopped are so interchangeable)
Blue - “just passing through”
Purple - “Bucket list state”
White - “No desire. None. Whatsoever”.

I like the thought-out definitions for us all to go by. I will go change my colors accordingly.

Where is your map, lol?

short+sassy · October 2022

Updated:

Dang it. I forgot my layovers in Denver, lol.

I can thank the month-long driving trip I took with my friend years ago, for a lot of this, lol. WI, IN, KY, TN, NC, and SC would have had no colors if it hadn't been for that trip.

He wanted to see Madison, WI, so that was the first stop of our trip.

On our drive out, we visited a mutual friend who was going to University of Indiana. We also stopped at De Pauw University because my sorority was founded there.

I insisted we eat at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Kentucky, because I loved KFC and that amused me. That was also where I tried sweet tea for the first time. I'd never heard of it and was asking the employee questions about it. She was looking at me like, "What is wrong with you? What rock have you been living under?" Took one sip. Almost gagged because it was so disgustingly sweet. And shamefacedly asked for a non-sweet tea.

Stayed a few days in Raleigh-Durham. That was planned. Stayed one night in Charleston. That was not planned. Just where we ended up when we were ready to stop for the night. We were going to leave the next morning but decided to check out Charleston first, since we were there. We loved it! And both wished we'd planned for more time there.

I remembered we passed an exit for Graceland, so that was TN. That was the drive back from New Orleans to Chicago. End of trip. No more visiting places. Just the long trip back to IL.

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ei34 · October 2022

I’ll probably have one of the lowest scores 😬 I’ve only ever lived in NY, but I’m very content.

The orange (stayed here) I took to mean second-home level. NH it’s the same house I’ve been staying at my whole life, and NJ, growing up my grandparents had a beach house that we’d stay at for weeks at a time. NH and NJ felt like more than a visit.

Yellow (visited here) I reserved for hotels/places I didn’t return to and one week or less vacations.

My score will probably remain pretty low because other than Alaska, Hawaii, and the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park, I don’t have a burning desire to see anything else in America. I could see another trip to California? The kids want to go to Disney again…NH and the Jersey shore will always be available. I have a huge international bucket list though!

short+sassy · October 2022

ei34 said:

I’ll probably have one of the lowest scores 😬 I’ve only ever lived in NY, but I’m very content.

The orange (stayed here) I took to mean second-home level. NH it’s the same house I’ve been staying at my whole life, and NJ, growing up my grandparents had a beach house that we’d stay at for weeks at a time. NH and NJ felt like more than a visit.

Yellow (visited here) I reserved for hotels/places I didn’t return to and one week or less vacations.

My score will probably remain pretty low because other than Alaska, Hawaii, and the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park, I don’t have a burning desire to see anything else in America. I could see another trip to California? The kids want to go to Disney again…NH and the Jersey shore will always be available. I have a huge international bucket list though!

Your memories of NH and NJ sound wonderful!

Out of curiosity, why would you all potentially go to the Disneyland in CA when Disney World in FL is closer and has multiple parks?

charlotte989875 · October 2022

Clearly I haven’t seen much west of the Mississippi!

charlotte989875 · October 2022

I didn’t add that I’d love to go to CO, MT, WY. Its goal to take M to all the national parks!

flantastic · October 2022

Apparently I did it wrong by using their save image button instead of screenshotting, but I believe it gave me a score of 111. I used Pam’s rubric because that’s how I took it - otherwise I have no idea what the difference between orange and yellow could meaningfully be, unless you’re like a traveling nurse who stays a couple months in one place but wouldn’t say you “live” there.

Clearly I don’t go west. But my parents’ vacation strategy of “whatever timeshare trade is available last minute” has given me plenty of eastern states.

missJeanLouise · October 2022

Being on a national tour helped cross a lot of these off the list. I didn't do passed/stopped here because I can't remember which states we drove to vs ones we flew to. I am sure we went to MS and probably AR but I can't really remember so I left them off.

Eta: I forgot I drove through TN on my way from SC to NE

levioosa · October 2022

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Sorry, Midwest and South. Lol.

ei34 · October 2022

Okay, maybe my score would be higher if I moved my yellow states (visited for a week or so) into the orange category like some of you.

@short+sassy I just re-read what I wrote about CA and Disney, that was horribly worded/punctuated on my end and I see where your question comes from. I’ve been to CA a few times, for San Fran, Redwoods National Park, Muir Woods, Monterey, vineyards…I would *love* to return. But not for Disneyland, there are too many other wonderful things to do in Cali.

I have also been to Disney World in Florida, and my kids are begging to return…I re-started my Disney/vacation savings account in the spring, $250/month should get us back over April break in 2026 (it costs a good $10,000). But after that trip the $10,000 every-few-years trip will not be Disney World, too much else to see to keep returning. (NH is our return each year place.) And I hate giving a state like Florida my money, lol.

charlotte989875 · October 2022

ei34 said:

Okay, maybe my score would be higher if I moved my yellow states (visited for a week or so) into the orange category like some of you.

@short+sassy I just re-read what I wrote about CA and Disney, that was horribly worded/punctuated on my end and I see where your question comes from. I’ve been to CA a few times, for San Fran, Redwoods National Park, Muir Woods, Monterey, vineyards…I would *love* to return. But not for Disneyland, there are too many other wonderful things to do in Cali.

I have also been to Disney World in Florida, and my kids are begging to return…I re-started my Disney/vacation savings account in the spring, $250/month should get us back over April break in 2026 (it costs a good $10,000). But after that trip the $10,000 every-few-years trip will not be Disney World, too much else to see to keep returning. (NH is our return each year place.) And I hate giving a state like Florida my money, lol.

$10k for Disney?! Oh my gosh that’s so much money! How do families do this? No judgement just straight ticket shock!!

CharmedPam · October 2022

charlotte989875 said:
$10k for Disney?! Oh my gosh that’s so much money! How do families do this? No judgement just straight ticket shock!!

Like really? I’d love a picture of “America’s 10 most richest people” and you’d THINK Elon Musk would be at the top, but nope. Everyone forgot about Mickey Mouse. Chill’n in his pad full of gold coins and money.

Here’s mine, TX will be orange in February! And sorry, NM, OK, AR and AL. Just not rushing to go there. Am I the only one not knowing what those islands surrounding PR were? Eh. I’ll go there though.

ei34 · October 2022

@CharmedPam those are the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and I'm not sure what MP stands for (they're obviously not drawn geographically to scale). Okay, your "sorry OK" reminded me that I should've put Oklahoma on my list. I want to go to Pawhuska and hit all of Ree Drummond's spots, lol. I know it's ridiculous but the heart wants what it wants

Isn't is crazy @charlotte989875?! I will say it can cost less if you stay off property, or on property in a value resort, or drive instead of fly, not buy Genie+ (fast passes to skip lines). But I can't imagine it costing less than $5,000 even with all those changes. Before we went in April, I kind of rolled my eyes at people I know who go to Disney frequently. We had such a nice time that now I understand the desire to go over and over, but have a newfound, "okay you're rich and I didn't know it!" for them instead. I would love to put my kids on an airplane and take them somewhere that isn't New Hampshire/the Jersey shore, but it's just not in the budget. I do hope to do so every 4ish years though, fingers crossed.

short+sassy · October 2022

ei34 said:

@CharmedPam those are the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and I'm not sure what MP stands for (they're obviously not drawn geographically to scale). Okay, your "sorry OK" reminded me that I should've put Oklahoma on my list. I want to go to Pawhuska and hit all of Ree Drummond's spots, lol. I know it's ridiculous but the heart wants what it wants

Isn't is crazy @charlotte989875?! I will say it can cost less if you stay off property, or on property in a value resort, or drive instead of fly, not buy Genie+ (fast passes to skip lines). But I can't imagine it costing less than $5,000 even with all those changes. Before we went in April, I kind of rolled my eyes at people I know who go to Disney frequently. We had such a nice time that now I understand the desire to go over and over, but have a newfound, "okay you're rich and I didn't know it!" for them instead. I would love to put my kids on an airplane and take them somewhere that isn't New Hampshire/the Jersey shore, but it's just not in the budget. I do hope to do so every 4ish years though, fingers crossed.

As a kid, my parents would take us on 1-2 week vacation every year, but it was almost always driving to save money. No matter how far we were going!

My dad was from Ohio and his family was still there. We did that drive, from Southern CA, 3-4x. Completely nuts. We'd spend a week just driving. 3-4 days each way.

KIM, this is also in the days before electronics. My "entertainment" was reading books. That was about it.

My maternal aunt's H was in the Air Force. He was stationed in Montana and we did that drive from So. CA one year. Then we joined up with their family and drove to the Grand Tetons/WY and Canada. I forgot Montana and WY on my map!

They were badass on the Montana trip. Decided to save time, that we were going to drive it straight. 16-hour drive. Dad would drive at night while mom was sleeping and vice versa. For the trip back, it was decided that was a terrible idea and we stopped for the night somewhere, lol.

On the one hand, I really appreciate my parents made the effort and spent the money to make domestic traveling a regular part of my childhood. I think it made me a more well-rounded person, plus I got to see my aunts/uncles/cousins more often than I would have otherwise. But multiple long days in a row of being in a car were rough!

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