Fifty Nifty States

I've decided to add another layer to this year's Summer Reading Challenge to keep things fun and interesting.  Since this is Road Trip Americana, why not use a map to keep track of which states we've "visited" on our trip?

To do this, I'll add in which states were visited at the bottom of each blog post.  And for a  state to count, there has to be at least a little detail about it.  So, for example, if a character spends a night in Ohio, that's fine.  But, if the whole thing amounts to: "We travelled through Pennsylvania and Ohio on our way to Michigan" then we won't count those states because at most, they only got one shared line.

We've already got a few states to start with.  Our summer preview on Stephen Vincent Benet included New Hampshire, New York, and Washington D.C.

I'll share the completed list at the end, and we can see how many of the 50 states were actually visited.  I'm hoping to hit about half of them.

If you're reading along with this challenge, feel free to do the same.  Print yourself a map, color in the states as you read them, and see if you can beat my road trip record!  Here's the one I'm using.