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A Fun Bloggy Thing

Posted by Sarah on 16 Mar 2006 at 08:53 pm | Tagged as: Thinking Happy Thoughts

…or, The Post in Which I Really Want to Blog, But Can’t Think of What to Say.

Anyway, I was thinking about traveling. So I decided to create the my Visited States Map. I couldn’t decide if I should count the states we drove through to get to Florida for spring break in college (Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee). Does singing Walking in Memphis at 2:00 AM at the top of your lungs, outside of Graceland, count? Hmm. I made the difficult rule that to count a state, I must have spent at least one night in that state.

create your own visited states map

I had a thought: why is it that so many people I know and love have grandparents in West Virginia?

And, did anyone else here ever learn the 50 States song as a child? In 5th grade we learned the song, and it still rings in my head when I think about states… “Fifty nifty United States, from 13 original colonies…”

9 Responses to “A Fun Bloggy Thing”

1. on 19 Mar 2006 at 8:04 pm # Rob
   
   

   Wow, that’s a lot of red. Why no blue states? Or am I confusing my geography with politics?

2. on 20 Mar 2006 at 8:21 am # Jules
   
   

   I created my own map. I’ve been to more states than I realized. You’ve had the opportunity to do a lot of traveling!

3. on 20 Mar 2006 at 8:38 am # Sarah
   
   

   I can thank my clarinet for all that traveling! I was able to see the northern and midwestern states with the Evangel concert orchestra.

4. on 21 Mar 2006 at 5:17 pm # sara
   
   

   bake, you should count Tennessee. Singing “Walking in Memphis” outside of Graceland is the quintessential TN experience and I think you should add it to your list….

   “tell me, are you a christian son? and i said, ‘man, i am tonight!’”

5. on 23 Mar 2006 at 2:16 pm # R
   
   

   As you can see by the link to my web-page, the Red States are more popular anyway. Red was a good choice.

6. on 23 Mar 2006 at 2:20 pm # Missing link
   
   

   As you can see by the link to my web-page, the Red States are more popular anyway. Red was a good choice.

7. on 23 Mar 2006 at 10:22 pm # J-Dog
   
   

   J-Dog has two big holes in his map. At least they’re all red…J-Dog likes his president.

8. on 01 Apr 2006 at 8:34 pm # Mark
   
   

   Hey, what happened to your “Daily Addictions” blog links? That was fully half the publicity for my blog!

9. on 05 Apr 2006 at 7:21 pm # Mark
   
   

   We can vote on this if need be, but I think we need a sound file of Sarah singing this “nifty” song to clarify ‘cuz it’s just not ringing a bell for me… Who’s with me?

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