Well, it diminishes the glamour of it even further (*g*) if I reveal that the vast majority of my (few) trips to the U.S. of A. were with my family, to meet my Mum's relatives. Aside from brief stints in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Boston (and those were all with outside groups: Girl Guides, high school band, university music students) very little of my Stateside travel has been driven by tourist-y desire. That's not to say that we don't have a wee look around when we visit relatives--increasingly at my sister's or my insistence--but it's secondary.
> Hmm....can I say I've visited a state if I've flown over it?
Hey, I'm counting the ones I have merely been driven through to get somewhere else! Boston (Massachusetts) was reached via Maine and I-don't-know-what-that-state-in-between-is-called-so-it's-not-filled-in (Vermont?), Kentucky[1] was reached via New York State and Pennsylvania in addition to Ohio.
[1] Yup, that's right. I have hillbilly ancestors.
I'll stop babbling soon. I'm doing all this state name-dropping to make up for the fact that I failed miserably on a Grade 9 Geography test that involved labelling a US map. Why do they have so many of them anyway? Can't they just use large provinces like a sensible country?
I would dearly love to--in Canada, in the States, in the rest of the world--but there's the matter of these small rectangular pieces of coloured paper... *g*
Hello, by the way. I don't believe I've "spoken" to you before.
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Date: 2004-01-27 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-27 08:49 pm (UTC)Hmm....can I say I've visited a state if I've flown over it?
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Date: 2004-01-27 10:24 pm (UTC)Well, it diminishes the glamour of it even further (*g*) if I reveal that the vast majority of my (few) trips to the U.S. of A. were with my family, to meet my Mum's relatives. Aside from brief stints in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Boston (and those were all with outside groups: Girl Guides, high school band, university music students) very little of my Stateside travel has been driven by tourist-y desire. That's not to say that we don't have a wee look around when we visit relatives--increasingly at my sister's or my insistence--but it's secondary.
> Hmm....can I say I've visited a state if I've flown over it?
Hey, I'm counting the ones I have merely been driven through to get somewhere else! Boston (Massachusetts) was reached via Maine and I-don't-know-what-that-state-in-between-is-called-so-it's-not-filled-in (Vermont?), Kentucky[1] was reached via New York State and Pennsylvania in addition to Ohio.
[1] Yup, that's right. I have hillbilly ancestors.
I'll stop babbling soon. I'm doing all this state name-dropping to make up for the fact that I failed miserably on a Grade 9 Geography test that involved labelling a US map. Why do they have so many of them anyway? Can't they just use large provinces like a sensible country?
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Date: 2004-01-27 10:36 pm (UTC)Hello, by the way. I don't believe I've "spoken" to you before.
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Date: 2004-01-28 01:55 pm (UTC)Answered your own question...
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Date: 2004-02-01 01:50 pm (UTC)