How many states (and countries) have you visited?

Prof. Froomkin passes along the link to a fascinating little applet that lets you fill in a form containing all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The result is an HTML-formatted list of states using the following key: bold for states you’ve been to, underline for states you’ve lived in, and italics for the state you’re in now…

Here’s my list (I don’t count a state if I’ve only changed planes there):

Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /

If you’re the visual sort, you might prefer to create a map like this one (red for states I’ve visited):

I haven’t spent much time in the South or the Midwest, have I? And I was really surprised to see I’ve never been to Michigan or Ohio.

Here’s a similar tool to create a map of countries you’ve visited:

I suspect my older brother’s map would look very different from this one.