Wish they'd mark the visited states with blue...

But this is still kind of fun. I've been around more than I realized. I think the trick to looking good on this map is to visit the biggest states. You can wander all over New England, and on this map it looks less impressive than spending a day or two in Texas. Hmm... Anyway, here are the states I've visited (not counting airport stopovers):



create your own visited states map

In other news, FoMF (friend of Marita's family) Jed Lowrie is making a good showing at shortstop in Red Sox spring training; he just ripped a single against the Pirates to bring his spring batting average up to 0.333. We're big fans of Jed around here. I think he's starting the season with advanced-A Wilmington, but I'm hoping he makes it up to AA Portland fairly early on. I'd like lots of chances to see him play this summer, but making the trip to Delaware just wouldn't fill in that much more of the map.