Hello dear friends and readers,

I thought this was a nifty map I found at AMADA's blog.  The red states are all the ones I've been to in my life, and the white are ones I haven't.  I'm not really sure about Nevada.  I could have driven through it at one point, which is likely during our cross country moves as a child.  I think I need to see the Northwest!  Golly!  A whole world waiting to be explored...like Lewis and Clark!  I 'd love to follow their trail or something like that.  Wouldn't that be something.
create your own visited states map or check out these Google Hacks.

     Being a military kid and having a military husband there have only been 6 years in my life I haven't been in the Navy.  There's a Naval Academy poem-thing that plebes have to memorize  called "How Long Have You Been in the Navy?"  The plebe answers,

                  "All me bloomin' life. Me mother was a mermaid, me father was King Neptune. I was born on the crest of a wave and rocked in the cradle of the deep. Seaweed and barnacles are me clothes.  Every hair on me head is hemp, every bone in me body is a spar.  And when I spits, I spits tar. I's hard, I is, I am, I are."  I had that poem memorized before I was ten!  And now it's true.  I really have been in the Navy all me bloomin' life!

     My dad loved to challenge us kids.  He didn't make any adjustments for our genders either.  He'd toss us out of the boat into the Potomac or wherever we were with the water skis flying after us.  Didn't he know things grab your legs in murky waters?  You couldn't admit you were scared or cold.  You hated to alter his belief in you.  Dad admired resilience as a facet of strong character.  Having Dad disappointed in you was one of the worst scenarios possible growing up.  I don't know how he managed to program that into us, but I'd sure like to know! 

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Posted by DaveShack

Then you'll have to come visit! Can you fly to Hawaii via Seattle? I'm sure that move will be complicated enough though. :-)

We just spent the last few days camping in our new house. Escrow closed last week, and H and I flew up with only our youngest to get things started on the new place. My brother and sister-in-law, who'd never been to the northwest, just happened to be in Portland at a conference, so we got them to come up and camp out with us for a couple of days in our empty house, entertaining them with fresh blackberries and great local hikes through the rainforests and watersheds. Come October 1st, this will be our permanent residence.

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Posted by CountryMomof4

I read your post about the Pearls and it being a different world. We didn't see too many head coverings etc at their seminar here (we're West coast) but it was a different world! We left our kids with the grandparents and I was so glad. Everyone had such well behaved little ones. My kids in a 4 hour seminar... not good. They would have been arguing, whinning, making bodily noises to pass the time with humor. I said a little prayer of thanks when we got in the car to pick up my kids after the seminar. :Dear Lord, thank you for sparing me the humiliation I would have felt had I brought my darling, wild, goofy boys. Amen."
BTW, I did the same map... it was pathetic. We have moved 11 times, but only lived in 3 different states. We are attempting to plan a road trip across America next summer. Then I can fill up my map with red ... until then, I think I'll just not share my meager travels. ~K

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Posted by javamamma

When you begin your journey through the Northwest - start with me, in Nebraska! :o)

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Posted by hskubes

Thank you for sharing your journeys and for leaving your comment on our contest post. It's been a lot of fun seeing where people have been. *Ü*


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