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Bill Corbett's avatar

Never been to ND and I'm never going.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I need to go, but only in furtherance of my goal of visiting every state (I'm up to 40)

I'll stop at the state line and jump across and back while holding my breath 😂

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Bill Corbett's avatar

I understand and that’s a lofty goal and I like your response, “jump in and jump out”.😂

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I had not been to South Carolina until a buddy and I drove down for the 2017 eclipse and stopped by a river in Georgia that marked the border with SC. I stripped down, swam across, hiked a bit of a trail on the other side and returned. So, I have never worn clothing in South Carolina.

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Cathy Wray's avatar

haha!!!

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Marla's avatar

Admirable.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

That's how I crossed the Texas panhandle, I didn't even stop for lunch.

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Marla's avatar

When we moved from NY to CA, we elected to drive, since the company was paying. Saw a lot of the country that way. It was, um, eye-opening. Texas is one of the flatest places. There's a rock formation called Tucumcari in New Mexico. You can see it 2 days' drive away in Texas, that's how flat.

Took the southern route, since it was March.

Did it once, never need to do it again.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

There's Texas flat, and then there's Florida flat, where the highest elevation in 99% of the state is a fwy overpass

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Same here. Could not get out of Texas fast enough. Which wasn’t easy.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

That's how my family moved from Minn

back to AZ for 6 months, then to So Cal.I was in 3 different 6 grade classes in 3 different states.

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mark rubin's avatar

Although the one part of Texas worth seeing is Austin.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Little blue dot in a big red state

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I wish I could have dropped into Austin by helicopter, I hear it's " weird " , I love " weird " . 😁

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I've been to 48. I have made Hawai'i but not Alaska, and finally touched Rhode Island but have not been to Delaware.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I've wanted to do this, but we've not had the money to go on vacation. I was going to do it alphabetically (being unable to make choices, I start with the first in alphabetical order, my husband's used to this) so years ago I sent away to Alabama for tourist stuff, which I still have. I was going to talk my husband into it by telling him we could go to Muscle Shoals. Probably never happen now.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

If you start in NorCal and travel to every state in the lower 48 alphabetically and in a straight line, that's about 39,000 miles, or more than 1-1/2 times around the earth at the equator. Not practical

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Oh, Steve, I want to see some of the state history, national parks if any, and a few historical state parks. I can't help myself.

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Mombeka's avatar

Went across the state in a train back about 60 years ago. Lots of nothing- great for stargazing

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Been there once and never again.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Ditto, drove across it and the freeway barely even has rest stops, just truck parking lots if you can count those.

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Lisa59's avatar

You're not missing nothing. Unless, you duck or pheasant hunt. It's made up of hard heads, oil grunts and meth factories.

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