James and I enjoy traveling and we always have lots of fun on our trips. Sometimes it feels like I’m pulling teeth to convince James to spend money for a trip, even a short one, but it is hard to change the mindset of someone who grew up traveling infrequently and when they did travel it was often to the same place.
One of my goals for us is to visit every state in the union and do something fun (a layover at an airport doesn’t count). I decided I would create a log of our travels to help us decide where we should travel to next. Now, some of you might look at this list and think it is incomplete and it would be for me if you count all the traveling I did growing up. However, I’m only using this log for trips James and I have taken together.
If you would like more details about any of our trips, click on the links to the posts about said trip or shoot me a question.
US Travel
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California*
- 2011 February – San Francisco, Big Basin Redwoods State Park – blog post day 1, day 2, day 3 and day 4
Colorado*
- 2006 September – Durango, Silverton, Mesa Verde National Park
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida*
- 2004 March – Key West
Georgia
Hawaii*
Idaho
- 2007 August – Hell’s Canyon, Coeur d’Alene, Hiawatha Trail
Illinois
- 2005 September – Chicago
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
- 2005 August – New Orleans
Maine
- 2006 August – Portland, Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
- 2005 September – Holland, Frankenmuth, Midland, Charlevoic, Petosky, Machinaw City, Harbor Springs, Leland, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Minnesota*
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
- 2002 January – Las Vegas
New Hampshire
New Jersey
- 2008 April – Barnegat Lighthouse – scrapblog post
New Mexico
- 2006 September – Albuquerque
- 2009 June – Ruidoso – scrapblog post, blog post
New York*
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- 2008 April – Philadelphia – scrapblog post, blog post
Rhode Island*
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee*
- 2007 September – Nashville – scrapblog post
Texas
- 2004 March – Galvestion (Moody Gardens)
- 2004 June – New Braunfels (Tubing on the Comal)
- 2004 August – El Paso (Ranger Peak)
- 2004 October – Dallas (Texas State Fair)
- 2006 August – McKinney Falls State Park
- 2007 June – San Marcos (Aquarena Springs)
- 2008 June – Wimberley
- 2008 July – New Braunfels (Sclitterbahn)
- 2008 October – Garner State Park, Lost Maples State Natural Area – blog post
- 2009 May – South Padre Island, Brownsville (Gladys Porter Zoo) – scrapblog post, blog post
- 2010 August – Bastrop (Hyatt Lost Pines Resort) – blog post day 1, day 2, day 3, and day 4
- 2011 June – Corpus Christi
- 2011 July/August – Kingsland, Lake LBJ
Utah
Vermont
- 2008 September – Manchester, Peru, Bromley Mountain, Weston – blog post
Virginia
Washington*
Washington D.C.
West Virginia
- 2011 May – New River Gorge, Hawk’s Nest State Park, Elkins, Caanan Valley State Park, Blackwater Falls State Park
Wisconsin*
Wyoming
Foreign Travel
Cayman Islands
- 2004 March – Georgetown, Hell, Stingray City, Seven Mile Beach
French Polynesia
- 2008 November – Moor ea, Bora Bora
Mexico
- 2004 March – Cozumel, Chankanaab National Park
I have placed an astrix beside the states I have visited without James for reference’s sake. I have only denoted those states where I clearly remember the trip, so not the trips when I was a small child.
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