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Here's mine. I'm not counting ones I've just driven through without at least stopping to look around. My near-future plans are a trip to Alaska and exploring northwest Oregon.
Updated to reflect year 2023. Up to 1283 counties now out of 3141, up about 500 since I first started keeping track with my OP in 2009.
I don't know how many counties I've been in or through. (It's a lot, given that I've driven almost the entirety of the one- and two-digit interstate system.) I just wanted to say that I'm impressed that you're posting on your own thread 14 years after starting it.
Yeah, I don't think I want to do this map. Because:
1. Even though I have been to 19 states including every Western state and most of the Midwest states, checking off only counties I have been to is going to make my travels look kind of pathetic. Even in the states I have visited, most of the state will still be blank.
2. Damn that's hard. How do you figure out what counties you have been to? I don't even keep track of counties, I have visited.
3. It would be impossible to do this even if I wanted to. When I was a kid I visited probably most of the counties in North Dakota with my dad. But I can't for the life of me remember which ones. Even some towns that I thought I visited, when I look at them on Google maps in Streetview, they look nothing like what I remember. So I was probably actually in a different town.
But I admire the dedication of some of you doing it.
Red - Traveled to
Yellow - Lived in (From birth to current: Chatham County GA, Bulloch County GA, Buncombe County NC, Mecklenburg County NC, Clark County NV, Lynchburg City VA, Richmond City VA)
This could be fun. I should start with only the counties I've driven to, with myself behind the wheel. Dukes and Nantucket County, MA do count, since I've driven to ferries that take me there. Utah and Washington will be islands.
First immediate thought: have I really not been to Litchfield County, Connecticut? I've been in all of the surrounding counties many times, like at least half a dozen times to Dutchess and dozens to all the rest.
Sorry Cumberland, but you're the lone NJ county that hasn't seen my presence. Not surprising of course.
Yeah, I don't think I want to do this map. Because:
1. Even though I have been to 19 states including every Western state and most of the Midwest states, checking off only counties I have been to is going to make my travels look kind of pathetic. Even in the states I have visited, most of the state will still be blank.
2. Damn that's hard. How do you figure out what counties you have been to? I don't even keep track of counties, I have visited.
3. It would be impossible to do this even if I wanted to. When I was a kid I visited probably most of the counties in North Dakota with my dad. But I can't for the life of me remember which ones. Even some towns that I thought I visited, when I look at them on Google maps in Streetview, they look nothing like what I remember. So I was probably actually in a different town.
But I admire the dedication of some of you doing it.
I am too old to spend the rest of my life clicking off counties. I had a traveling job to visit every county seat in one state. Road trips took me to 43 states multiple times over 65 years.
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