One of the challenges of deciding to “visit” all 50 states is defining how much is “enough” to qualify as a visit.  As an example, I’ve been in both New Jersey and Texas before, but only saw the inside of the Newark and Dallas airports.  That hardly qualifies as a “visit.”

In order to keep this project from taking another 20 years, Kathy & I decided that in order to count a state as visited, we needed to have a representative grouping of photos from that state.  It doesn’t mean that we have to (a) hit all of the Chamber of Commerce sites or (b) create a photo essay worthy of National Geographic.  It just means that we need to be there long enough to come back with some representative photographs.

I’ll be the first to admit that spending a few hours in a state like Delaware is hardly enough to satisfy either of those above requirements.   And while 3 days in New Jersey was plenty, thank you very much, there are states that, out of necessity, we will only get to spend a few hours.  We’ll try to keep those to a minimum of course, but that is what we’ve decided.

The other part of the equation is that there will be states where we don’t get to the Big Name places.  In Indiana, for example, I’d love to get to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  But we’re going to find something else, partly because that’s our style, and partly because we need to keep it simple from the standpoint of time and money.  As much as I want to go to Glacier National Park, I’ll probably make do with something like Little Bighorn.  For now!

So anyway, here is a collection of photos from Delaware.  If you are from the Delaware Chamber of Commerce – sorry!  Otherwise, enjoy!