State meme

Taken from scarlettina and butterflykiki
Where have you been? What have you done?

Underline = Lived
Bold = Visited for more than 24 hours
Italics = driven through, purchased shot glasses there or had a layover there.

1) Alabama, 2) Alaska, 3) Arizona, 4) Arkansas, 5) California, 6) Colorado, 7) Connecticut, 8) Delaware, 9) Florida, 10) Georgia, 11) Hawaii, 12) Idaho, 13) Illinois, 14) Indiana, 15) Iowa, 16) Kansas, 17) Kentucky, 18) Louisiana, 19) Maine, 20) Maryland, 21) Massachusetts, 22) Michigan, 23) Minnesota, 24) Mississippi, 25) Missouri, 26) Montana, 27) Nebraska, 28) Nevada, 29) New Hampshire, 30) New Jersey, 31) New Mexico, 32) New York, 33) North Carolina, 34) North Dakota, 35) Ohio, 36) Oklahoma, 37) Oregon, 38) Pennsylvania, 39) Rhode Island, 40) South Carolina, 41) South Dakota, 42) Tennessee, 43) Texas, 44) Utah, 45) Vermont, 46) Virginia 47) Washington, 48) West Virginia, 49) Wisconsin, 50) Wyoming, and 51) Washington, DC.

Some of the places I've visited I've also had layovers in. And I collect shotglasses, so likewise duplication...

And do I get to count Puerto Rico, too? Been to Puerto Rico. And the US Virgin Islands, too. (mmmm. St. John. Mmmmm....)


Damn. I do get around a bit, don't I?

off to somewhere warmer...

Which, at this point, would be the average walk-in freezer. Damn but it's cold out there! And it will get colder -- by the time we hit the airport this afternoon the high is supoosed to be 0 degrees. That's a high of zero. You don't want to know about the wind chill. Trust me.

On the plus side, the 5-6" of snow that came down overnight was a wonderfully dry powder, which made shoveling the driveway relatively easy, so...

Anyway, off in a few hours for London, which has seen worse invasions but not, I suspect, recently. I'm on strictly student rations, since the exchange rate is so 'orrible for us poor American tourists, but I suspect I'll have fun anyway.

And, before I go, some updates:

weekly word count to date on Retrievers #2: 2,000+
weekly word count on other projects: 1,000+
new story ideas fermenting: three

If the airplane engine white noise does its usual trick for me, one of those story ideas may be full-born by the time we land in Gatwick. Or maybe I'll sleep. We'll see.

Catch y'all on the return!