[LAST UPDATED: March 13, 2019]

Here are my own rules for accomplishing the goal of visiting all 50 states:

• Must stay overnight in the state
• Must have done something leisurely and worthy of note while in the state (e.g., visit a monument or attend an event)
• I went to the state on my own accord

The following scenarios DO NOT COUNT as having visited a state:

• Airport layovers
• Traveling through a state
• Just stepping foot in a state’s boundary and saying “Heehee”
• Travel that I did not help plan (i.e., a number of family vacation)

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[19 of 50 states visited]

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona – August 2015
Arkansas
California – Summer 2011 / February 2016
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida – October 2016
Georgia – May 2015
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois – MAY 2016
Indiana – February 2017
Iowa
Kansas – expected 2019
Kentucky
Louisiana – December 2015/January 2016
Maine – 2018 Labor Day Weekend
Maryland – ALL DAY EVERY DAY
Massachusetts – September 2013
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri – expected 2019
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York – January 2016
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio – June 2015
Oklahoma
Oregon – September 2015
Pennsylvania – June 2016 and many other times
Rhode Island
South Carolina – June 2015
South Dakota
Tennessee – expected 2019
Texas – October 2014
Utah
Vermont
Virginia – ALL DAY EVERYDAY
Washington – September 2015
West Virginia – expected 2019
Wisconsin – MAY 2016
Wyoming

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BONUS!
District of Columbia – BORN HERE
Puerto Rico
Guam
U.S. Virgin Islands