How many States have you been to?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

74. Not especially impressive, but here goes:

For the record, my personal ground rules on what constitutes a "visit":

To have physically "visited" a state, you must have actually set foot on the ground state itself, or on a fixed structure within that state.

Thus, layovers where you get off the plane and go into the airport count as a "visit" for me (that's how I count Texas). However, a layover where you remain on the plane does not count. (Why I don't count Alabama, where I stayed on the tarmac at the Birmingham airport). Also, driving through a state but not stopping and getting out of the car does not count as a "visit" to me.

I also don't count states that you were too young to remember visiting. My parents took us on a road trip to visit relatives in Kansas when I was 2, but since I don't remember any of it, I don't count any of those states that I "visited" on that trip.