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🦋 One State, One Sentence

There is a fun meme floating around, which I saw at Jackmormon's place and at Matt Weiner's. Neither of them thought to tag me; but I am doing it myself: write one sentence about each state you have visited.

• California: California is my base line for comparison, it is manifold, it defies description.
• Wisconsin: I wish I had been old enough to form a memory of Madison, the summer we lived there.
• Missouri: I love the St. Louis Children's Museum.
• Iowa: All I remember of Iowa is a snowy day and a house with red trim.
• Oregon: My favorite rural experiences took place in Oregon.
• Pennsylvania: Philadelphia is a fine city for walking around.
• New York: A vast number of opportunities to have a good time can be found in the city.
• Illinois: Mostly I remember driving in Chicago, with my newly acquired license, and freaking Gary out with the quality of my driving.
• Florida: I watched Pulp Fiction in Boca Raton.
• Connecticut: Unlike any other place I've been in Connecticut, Danbury seems like a very pleasant town to me.
• Massachussetts: What can I say about Massachussetts that has not already been said?
• New Hampshire: In New Hampshire I learned how to build a chair.
• Vermont: In Vermont we mostly ride our bikes.
• Maine: It took a long time driving to get to Maine but we had fun there.
• Rhode Island: We rounded out our New England tour by walking around Providence.
• District of Columbia: DC is not a very good place to be at loose ends.
• Ohio: I visited Oberlin, and nothing about it seemed distinctively Ohioan.
• New Jersey: I live in New Jersey.
• Kansas: The greatest night sky I can remember having seen was from a Kansas field.

And there are probably some others, but I do not remember them. (Illinois and Florida added after some consultation with my memory.... Oops! And Kansas.)

Update: Jackmormon is now claiming the right to tag me retroactively.

Update: Richard Mason is mandating that everyone join this meme.

posted morning of Sunday, March 19th, 2006

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