Long-time readers of this blog know that one of my goals is to paddle a boat in every state of the United States of America. The rules are simple: within the legal boundaries of a given state, I must be on a river, lake, or other body of water in a kayak or canoe, and take at least one paddle stroke. Then I will have paddled in that state.
Before I put on the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry back on August 27, I had never paddled in the state of Arizona. Now I have. Boy, have I ever. I can probably put together a list of ten states in which the combined number of paddle strokes I've taken is fewer than the number I took in the Grand Canyon in those sixteen days.
In summary, here's a list of the fifty states of this nation. I have visited every one of them at least once. I have marked with an asterisk (*) those states in which I have not paddled. And there's now just one of them: Alaska. The Last Frontier.
Alabama
Alaska*
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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