Kevin Standlee ([info]kevin_standlee) wrote,
@ 2009-11-06 08:19:00
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Current location:Fremont, California
Current mood:accomplished
Entry tags:travel, worldcon

That Travel Meme Again
I've picked up some new states and countries since the last time I visited this.

visited 32 states (64%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

I don't count states where I only changed planes or otherwise stopped while flying by air without leaving the airport (Hawaii, North Carolina, Idaho). I do count states through which I've traveled by train if I ever got off the train regardless of whether I left the station. This means that I don't count Indiana or Pennsylvania because while the Lake Shore Limited traverses them it, I never got off the train.

Update, 10:35: *headsmack* I forgot about the Millennium Philcon!

I count states within which I've driven or ridden in a private vehicle, which means I include North Dakota even though the visit was being driven back and forth between Grand Forks and Winnipeg. Arkansas also just barely counts, as we popped over to West Memphis on the road trip to/from the December 1993 SMOFCon in Lexington KY because the gas was cheaper there before heading south.

My world travels are less impressive.


visited 9 states (4%)
Create your own visited map of The World

Again, changing planes only without going groundside doesn't count, so I don't include New Zealand. The only country that has hosted a Worldcon that I've not been to is Germany. The most odd-ball (and least visible at this scale) country that I can include here is the Channel Islands, where I attended a SMOFCon in 1993.



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[info]calimac
2009-11-06 06:10 pm UTC (link)
Pennsylvania also thus counts as the only state you haven't been to that's hosted Worldcons.

As I've been to all 50 states, I keep a map of states I've been to SF/F cons in, a category that includes such unlikely venues as Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, and Oklahoma.

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[info]kevin_standlee
2009-11-06 06:42 pm UTC (link)
*Arrgh* I forgot about MilPhil. Fixed.

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[info]kevin_standlee
2009-11-06 06:49 pm UTC (link)
I think this is the subset of the states that I've visited for SF/F conventions (including SMOFCon):


visited 17 states (34%)


The map-maker doesn't include DC as a state for this purpose, but if he did, I could include it.

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[info]calimac
2009-11-07 12:49 pm UTC (link)
Huh. You've done only three that I haven't (FL, KY, and MD), but I've done eight or nine that you haven't, depending on whether the Assembly of the Friends of the English Regency counts as an SF convention. (NM. Dancing at mile-high elevation - yes, Albuquerque is as high up as Denver - was interesting.) This is probably more because I go to Mythcons, which can be in odd places, than because I'm older than you are, but it does include Worldcons in MO and GA.

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[info]jane_dennis
2009-11-07 04:33 am UTC (link)
I've been to all 50 states too, and I am not starting another blasted counter.

Idaho? Really?

Um, if I count Mystery cons, I get to include Alaska... and Hawaii twice.

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[info]calimac
2009-11-07 12:41 pm UTC (link)
Idaho, really. MosCon in Moscow, where the University of Idaho is. Popular stop on the NW con circuit in the early 80s.

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[info]redneckotaku
2009-11-06 06:34 pm UTC (link)
Weren't you at Millenium Philcon back in 2001. That was the year before you were co-chair of 2002 ConJose. Philadelphia is a part of Pennsylvania last I checked.

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[info]kevin_standlee
2009-11-06 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Yep, I was at MilPhil. I'd just forgotten about it when I got fixated on western Pennsylvania and the train route. Fixed.

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