Where have you been? Where will you go?

One of my goals in life is to visit all 50 states.  Before 2007 I had been to 12 states.  In 2007 I made it to 18 more, totaling 30.  In 2010, I was fortunate enough to make it out to Washington to visit and then to New York and along the way adding 4 more new states.  I have now been to 35 states, and though I have been blessed enough to have made it to that many this early in life, it isn't all about the numbers to me.  Each time I have been somewhere I have gone with very special people.  It is fun to travel alone at times but like Christopher McCandless finally realized as he lay dying in an abandoned bus in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness in 1992, "Happiness is only real when shared" Into the Wild (Krakauer 189).
 I have had the pleasure of traveling with my friends and family.  I could write a book trying to encompass the experiences, but could never fully express the vastness of our shared adventures.  If you have never traveled, do it.  If you haven't ever really felt like it was your thing, try it.  You just may discover something new about yourself, those you venture with, and those you meet along the way.  We were designed to share life together.  If you always travel with someone try traveling alone once or twice, and if you always travel alone, venture out with someone close to you.  I am anxious to see what 2011 holds for me.  I have no set schedule of places to visit, I just kind of go.

http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited?region=usa
Go to the website and track where you have been.  Tis' fun!