The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

I've been to 9 Canadian provinces and 43 US states. 42 if you don't count just walking across the border for a few minutes.

My rule is you have to sleep in a place to count as visiting.  So I've been to Quebec twice on day trips, but I don't count Quebec because I didn't sleep there.

hmm... I guess I could count Texas because on a layover at DFW we did rent a room and slept for 5-6 hours, but still doesn't seem like it should count.

[Maximus]

I've been to 9 Canadian provinces and 43 US states. 42 if you don't count just walking across the border for a few minutes.

My rule is you have to sleep in a place to count as visiting.  So I've been to Quebec twice on day trips, but I don't count Quebec because I didn't sleep there.

hmm... I guess I could count Texas because on a layover at DFW we did rent a room and slept for 5-6 hours, but still doesn't seem like it should count.

By that metric I haven't been to the stopover provinces, Ontario and Quebec. Actually I don't think I've been to New Brunswick either.

Really, though, the 24-hour drive through Ontario seems like it should count, even if you don't legally sleep there.

Anyway, that would bring me down to 7 provinces and 33 states.

[dps]

I've been to 9 Canadian provinces and 43 US states. 42 if you don't count just walking across the border for a few minutes.

My rule is you have to sleep in a place to count as visiting.  So I've been to Quebec twice on day trips, but I don't count Quebec because I didn't sleep there.

hmm... I guess I could count Texas because on a layover at DFW we did rent a room and slept for 5-6 hours, but still doesn't seem like it should count.

I don't know;  it seems to me that if you're going to start putting qualifiers on "visiting" a place, just sleeping there shouldn't count.  For example, when we went to Gettysburg, IIRC the motel we stayed at was actually in Maryland and it seems to me that that would count more as visiting Pennsylvania rather than visiting Maryland (I've been to Maryland other times);  OTOH, when I went to Texas, I drove through Arkansas and stopped over for the night at a motel there, but I didn't do anything in Arkansas except drive through and sleep there, so I can't see why that would count as visiting Arkansas anymore than simply driving through.

[Admiral Yi]

I propose the rule of at least one recreational activity.

[Grey Fox]

If you have crossed it you have visited it.

[Eddie Teach]

If you have crossed it you have visited it.

In a car, train, or bus. No planes.

[Admiral Yi]

No way you get a point for just driving through.

[Oexmelin]

I propose the rule of at least one recreational activity.

Good rule. It means if you are deliberately road tripping through a state, it counts, whereas if you are just crossing to get to another destination, it shouldn't.

[Admiral Yi]

By that rule I've visited 24 states plus DC. Driven through 11.

[katmai]

Seven Canadian provinces and 43 US states.


Oh and six Mexican states to boot.

[PDH]

Seven Canadian provinces and 43 US states.


Oh and six Mexican states to boot.

Jesus, I am the reason Katmai can count Wyoming.

[Grey Fox]

Is eating a recreational activity?

[Admiral Yi]

Is eating a recreational activity?

Possibly, but not necessarily. 

"Hey, let's check out this awesome blubber restaurant in Nunavit!"  Point

"12 more hours until we can start panning for gold in the Yukon.  We better grab a blubber burger."  No point

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not sure it's possible to drive through Nunavut on the way to somewhere else.

[dps]

Does visiting friends or family count if you don't do anything else in a state except drive through?