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

(22 out of 50 states so far)

Alabama

Alaska

• 2015 July – Skagway, Ketchikan, Juneau (Disney cruise)

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
• 2017 August – Durango, Silverton, Ourey, Mesa Verde National Park, Four Corners

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida*

• 2004 March – Key West (Royal Caribbean cruise)
• 2013 January – Walt Disney World, Key West (Disney cruise)
• 2014 July – Walt Disney World
• 2019 July – Walt Disney World

Georgia

• 2016 June – Atlanta, Tallulah Gorge State Park

Hawaii*

• 2018 June – Oahu, Kauai

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

• 2013 July – Branson

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
• 2017 August – Roswell, Santa Fe, Albuquerque

New York*

• 2013 May – Rochester and Buffalo

North Carolina

• 2016 June – Bryson City, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Highlands

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, The Antlers Hotel
• 2012 July – Lake Whitney, Arrowheal Resort, Lofers Bend Park
• 2014 May – Houston (Houston Zoo, Houston Museum of National Science)
• 2014 August/September – Ingram/Kerrville
• 2015 June – Tyler
• 2015 September – Canyon Lake
• 2016 May – Brownwood
• 2016 May – Waller
• 2016 September – Houston (Children’s Museum of Houston), Galveston (Moody Gardens, Lone Star Flight Musuem)
• 2017 December – DFW (Great Wolf Lodge, Gaylord Lone Star Christmas, Perot Museum, Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens)
• 2018 August – Kerrville
• 2019 May – Fredericksburg

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

Bahamas

• 2013 January – Castaway Cay (Disney cruise)

Canada

• 2013 May – Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake
• 2015 July – Vancouver

Cayman Islands

• 2004 March – Georgetown, Hell, Stingray City, Seven Mile Beach (Royal Caribbean cruise)

French Polynesia

• 2008 November – Moor ea, Bora Bora

Mexico

• 2004 March – Cozumel, Chankanaab National Park (Royal Caribbean cruise)

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.