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This isn’t an electoral prediction (thank heavens), but something to distract us for the next 24 hours while we nervously await vote counts. The website 270 to Win allows you to mark up the national map any old way you like. Following a Twitter prompt, I marked every state where I’ve lived in RED and every state I’ve visited in BLUE. The result:

I’ve always wanted to visit all 50 states, but there are still six I haven’t yet visited. (The tourism departments in CT, DE, ND, RI, SD, and VT really need to up their game.)

Now it’s time for the Ricochetti to let us know where you’ve lived and visited so we can find out who is the most and least traveled among us.

One handy tip: To start with an empty map, go to the Map Library drop-down menu and select “Blank Map” as shown below.

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  1. The Reticulator Member
    The Reticulator

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Not doing so well here. Only 54 electoral votes for the good guys.

    If by visiting a state you mean staying overnight at least once, I should omit West Virginia and North Carolina. Also Mississippi, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

    I just remembered that I have too been in Georgia, if Atlanta counts as Georgia. It was for a few days in 1993. (I’m not counting another time I was airdropped into Atlanta for an airport meeting.) That was the time we briefly went across the border into North Carolina for a few miles just to say we had been there, which almost shouldn’t count. I still haven’t touched South Carolina in any way, shape, or form.

     

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    • November 3, 2020, at 3:45 PM PST
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  2. Arahant Member
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    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Troy Senik (View Comment):
    (2) Anyone up for a meetup in Alaska?

    @vinceguerra @alsparks

    Who else lives in Alaska? (Small state, I know.)

    I know you mean population but if you said “small state” up here you’d get laughed out of the room. I’m pretty sure Al lives in Fairbanks, I’m in Wasilla. In Alaska we call that a good haul 300+ miles away, as opposed to a ways 200+ miles away, pretty close 100 miles or so, and nearby, under 50 miles.

    Nope. I was being facetious. The likelihood Troy could have one meet-up in Alaska with everyone seems a low probability due to the distances.

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    • November 3, 2020, at 3:50 PM PST
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  3. Arahant Member
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    Hammer, The (View Comment):
    Not sure if copying/pasting the code will work, so it may just be a block of code! I did not mark the states where I had merely driven through on my way to somewhere else, otherwise, the whole rest of the country would be blue. There aren’t many states I haven’t at least driven through.

    https://www.270towin.com/maps/dlekr.png

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    • November 3, 2020, at 3:55 PM PST
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  4. Charlotte Member
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    Been to all 50 thanks to a travel-intensive job for ten years and an insatiable wanderlust shared by my husband and family.

    Lived in WI, IN, VT, ME, GA, and VA.

    We have an amazing country. It is impossible to be bored here.

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  5. Chris Oler Coolidge
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    Charlotte (View Comment):

    Been to all 50 thanks to a travel-intensive job for ten years and an insatiable wanderlust shared by my husband and family.

    Lived in WI, IN, VT, ME, GA, and VA.

    We have an amazing country. It is impossible to be bored here.

    Unless you like exploring Roman ruins…

    But I fully agree.

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    • November 4, 2020, at 3:00 PM PST
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