My turn ...

Some notes:

We passed through Rhode Island on a family trip to Hyannis Port on the Cape in 1991.

Texas deserves an asterisk for so many things, but I only spent a few hours at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. I haven't actually visited, but I'm counting it anyway.

As for Hawaii, my father worked overseas in the early 1990's - in China, to be exact. On the way back one year, we hopped through the islands.

In 1998, the family drove across the Mississippi from Memphis just to add Arkansas to the list. The Welcome to Arkansas sign read "Home of Bill Clinton" while the Welcome to Tennessee sign read "Home of Al Gore." That always stuck with me for some unknown reason.

Oklahoma was crossed off similarly; when visiting a friend in Joplin, Missouri, about seven years ago, we took a daytrip to some rural locales in Sooner Territory, including a stop in Miami (pronounced "Miam-uh").

I don't have a date yet, but Southwest flies into Spokane, so I plan to rent a car from there and zigzag through the upper mountain and plain states before dropping the car off in Chicago and flying home. That will leave me with Alaska, Delaware, New Mexico, Louisiana, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

I might save Oregon for a trip to Crater Lake.

But someday I will fill in this map.