I'm counting the ones I just drove through and also the ones where I only saw the airport. I figured that if I'd died at the airport my death certificate would list that state as the place I......expired. So technically I've been there. It's amazing how much there is to see right here in the CONUS. Texas for example, it's like a whole other country. I not only loved the wilderness of Maine, I loved the people there. They were so friendly and I would have felt safe letting my kids play outside at night. True story, I stopped at a yard sale on Highway 1 just south of Madawaska. Picked out a few things and got ready to pay, no one was outside. The money box was on the table with money in plain sight. I knocked on the door with no answer. I felt kind of uncomfortable, put the things down and left. I stopped at a small country store a few miles up the road to get a Moxie and told the attendant about the yard sale. She told me the people were at work and I was supposed to make change, pay and get what I wanted. Can you believe there is still this kind of place nowdays? That was only a few years ago. I can say with some degree of certainty, if someone left a yard sale unattended in rural southwest Mississippi where I live, when they come home the money box and all the stuff, including the tables would be gone.
