Thursday Thirteen #12

One of the items on my List of Things to Do Before I Die is Visit all 50 states. So far I'm 84% there. My qualifications for a "visit" are that I have to actually set foot on the ground outside, so driving through a state without getting out of the car and stopovers without leaving the airport don't count. When I was in college, though, my friend Joyce and I were comparing states and she pointed out that she only counted visits by states where she's spent the night. So, in her honor, I offer:

Thirteen states I've never slept in

1·Connecticut*
2·Delaware*
3·Idaho*
4·Kansas
5·Maine*
6·Missouri*
7·Nebraska^†
8·Nevada^†
9·North Dakota
10·Oregon
11·Rhode Island*
12·South Dakota
13·Vermont*

*States I've visited by my definition (for what it's worth, I've not yet visited Alaska or Hawaii by anyone's definition, but since this isn't the Thursday Fifteen, I'll just leave it at that)

^† States I've driven or flown through

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