Counties and equivalents you've been to in 2020

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

I'm glad to see this is still a thread, since I like to post my additions as a collector of counties. I can give a summary of travels so far in this crazy year for travel.

It’s a fun thread. I would’ve had a lot to add if I had been able to go on my trip in late March/early April. I was planning on flying out from Sacramento to Columbus, OH (with a layover in Dallas) to drive a UHaul with my friend who was moving from Dayton, OH to Salt Lake City. I think it would’ve been something like 5 new states and 60-100 new counties. The exact number would’ve depended on the route. Also missed the chance to see my favorite bird at the Columbus Zoo. Damn Covid.

[ملكة كرينجيتوك]

I've ventured outside the Washington-Multnomah two-county area 4 times so far this year, all within the last 3 months.

OR- Washington, Multnomah, Columbia, Tillamook, Clatsop, Yamhill, Lincoln.

WA- Clark, Skamania, Cowlitz, Lewis, Thurston, Pierce, King.

[muon2]

I'm glad to see this is still a thread, since I like to post my additions as a collector of counties. I can give a summary of travels so far in this crazy year for travel.

It’s a fun thread. I would’ve had a lot to add if I had been able to go on my trip in late March/early April. I was planning on flying out from Sacramento to Columbus, OH (with a layover in Dallas) to drive a UHaul with my friend who was moving from Dayton, OH to Salt Lake City. I think it would’ve been something like 5 new states and 60-100 new counties. The exact number would’ve depended on the route. Also missed the chance to see my favorite bird at the Columbus Zoo. Damn Covid.

I hear you. I had plans for a great trip out west in May. It included renting a car in Phoenix for a dollar a day, during to a conference in Vegas, then to a resort near Bend OR, then to another conference outside of Seattle. By moving the rental car from Phoenix to Seattle, the rate was near zero. Who knows when those spring rental car deals will return.

[The Ex-Factor]

CA: Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, San Francisco

NY: Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Putnam, Columbia, Dutchess

Not counting counties I just had a layover in while flying.

[muon2]

CA: Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, San Francisco

NY: Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Putnam, Columbia, Dutchess

Not counting counties I just had a layover in while flying.

But if you weren't in those layover counties, and you weren't in the air, where were you at the time?

[Mike Thick]

California
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Ventura

Lol rip. Still haven’t been outside these three so far, even just passing through. Since Covid, it’s been just Ventura + occasional driving excursions to Santa Barbara.

Gonna try to hit SLO before the end of the year. Maybe OC if I have the time/gas money

[Middle-aged Europe]

UPDATE:


Boroughs of Berlin (12 out of 12):

all of them


Counties of Brandenburg (4 out of 18):

Barnim
Frankfurt (Oder)
Havelland
Potsdam


Boroughs of Hamburg (3 out of 7):

Altona
Eimsbüttel
Hamburg-Mitte


Counties of Saxony-Anhalt (2 out of 14):

Dessau-Roßlau
Wittenberg


Counties of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland (1 out of 14):

Słubice

UPDATE:


Boroughs of Berlin (12 out of 12):

all of them


Counties of Brandenburg (5 out of 18):

Barnim
Dahme-Spreewald
Frankfurt (Oder)
Havelland
Potsdam


Boroughs of Hamburg (3 out of 7):

Altona
Eimsbüttel
Hamburg-Mitte


Counties of Saxony-Anhalt (2 out of 14):

Dessau-Roßlau
Wittenberg


Counties of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland (1 out of 14):

Słubice

[PJ]

Idaho
Ada
Blaine
Boise
Camas
Canyon
Elmore
Gem
Gooding
Jerome
Owyhee
Payette
Valley

Oregon
Baker
Benton
Clackamas
Deschutes
Gilliam
Harney
Hood River
Jefferson
Klamath*
Lake
Lane
Lincoln
Linn
Malheur
Marion
Morrow
Multnomah
Sherman
Umatilla
Union
Wasco
Washington

Washington
Clark
Cowlitz
King
Lewis
Pierce
Thurston

*added

2019: 57 (12 D, 45 R)
2018: 46 (11 D, 35 R)

[muon2]

Barring an unplanned trip in the next two weeks, this should be my final edition for the year. I visited a total of 509 counties, 123 for the first time.

January - business trip to CA
February - mini road trip to Savannah GA

pandemic hits

March/April - a total of 5 counties in IL the fewest in a similar period in over a decade
May - a day trip to hike in a reopened IL state park and a day trip to see family in an outdoor socially distance setting in WI
June - a weekend trip to MI newly reopened with fairly strict COVID protocols
July - a weekend trip to state parks in southern IL

August - took a COVID test with a negative result to be able to fly to AK and visit my freshman roomate and tour the interior. It was my 50th state to visit. I also a weekend the MI UP which was still showing low rates.

September - after self-quarantining for 2 weeks I drove to NH to help my son move into his apartment for grad school. The apartment is in MA, but their Covid rules prevented me from staying overnight so I took day trips from NH to help him move in. Late in the month I visited a friend in northern MN, and from there drove across the state to see some brilliant fall colors along the border.

October - a day trip to an IL state park to enjoy more fall colors

November - a trip to NW AR residing in a fully equipped condo with day trips to see more fall colors, and conduct some business and see family with appropriate distancing.

November (cont) - Thanksgiving in a Covid bubble in NH after a period of self-quarantine

December - a week in south TX taking advantage of outdoor spaces and good weather

Here's a map of my travels. Red and magenta are counties first visited in 2020. Blue and green are counties visited in a prior year as well as 2020. Red and blue counties were slept in overnight during 2020. Yellow are prior counties only visited by airport/boat/rail coach.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

First county I've been too this year that I hadn't visited before the quarantine

I've been to many of these since late September, but they're all in the metropolitan area

[Former President tack50]

In a rather unexpected visit to the Las Vacas ravine (which ended up being quite underwhelming) I ended up ticking off another muncipality (Agüimes), converting it from drive-though to full visit.

I also forgot to add Firgas, which I ticked off when I visited the Azuaje ravine about 1 month ago or 2.

Given the small size of the island you are never 100% sure (all of my trips are unplanned; and in fact a trip towards the northwest corner would tick off a lot of places) but for now I have visited the following places:



Visits
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Telde
Santa Brígida
San Mateo
Teror
Valleseco
Arucas
Santa Lucía de Tirajana
San Bartolomé de Tirajana
Mogán
Agüimes
Firgas

Drive Throughs
Ingenio

[Nutmeg]

108 counties and equivalents, including the 4 I visited for the first time in 2020.

CA: Riverside, San Bernardino
CT: Fairfield, Middlesex, New Haven, New London
DE: New Castle
DC
GA: Banks, Barrow, DeKalb, Franklin, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hart, Jackson
MD: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore city, Calvert, Cecil, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Washington
MA: Barnstable, Bristol, Plymouth
NV: Clark
NJ: Bergen, Burlington, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Trenton, Union
NY: Bronx, Nassau, New York, Queens, Suffolk, Westchester
NC: Alamance, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Davidson, Durham, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Orange, Randolph, Rowan, Vance, Warren
PA: Bucks, Delaware, Greene, Philadelphia
RI: Kent, Providence, Washington
SC: Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Oconee, Spartanburg
TX: Dallas, Denton, Tarrant
VA: Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights city, Culpeper, Dinwiddie, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Fredericksburg city, Hanover, Henrico, Loudoun, Mecklenburg, Page, Petersburg city, Prince William, Rappahannock, Richmond city, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Warren
WV: Marshall, Jefferson, Monongalia, Preston

[Mike Thick]

California
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Ventura

Lol rip. Still haven’t been outside these three so far, even just passing through. Since Covid, it’s been just Ventura + occasional driving excursions to Santa Barbara.

Gonna try to hit SLO before the end of the year. Maybe OC if I have the time/gas money

Unfortunately, not going to make this happen. Have the time, but not the gas. So, here's the final map for the year.



Red is lived/slept in, blue is visited. Nothing fancy -- didn't visit anywhere for the first time this year, or go to any airports or anything like that.

[Middle-aged Europe]

UPDATE:


Boroughs of Berlin (12 out of 12):

all of them


Counties of Brandenburg (5 out of 18):

Barnim
Dahme-Spreewald
Frankfurt (Oder)
Havelland
Potsdam


Boroughs of Hamburg (3 out of 7):

Altona
Eimsbüttel
Hamburg-Mitte


Counties of Saxony-Anhalt (2 out of 14):

Dessau-Roßlau
Wittenberg


Counties of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland (1 out of 14):

Słubice

UPDATE:


Boroughs of Berlin (12 out of 12):

all of them


Counties of Brandenburg (5 out of 18):

Barnim
Dahme-Spreewald
Frankfurt (Oder)
Havelland
Potsdam


Boroughs of Hamburg (3 out of 7):

Altona
Eimsbüttel
Hamburg-Mitte


Counties of Saxony-Anhalt (3 out of 14):

Dessau-Roßlau
Halle (Saale)
Wittenberg


Counties of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland (1 out of 14):

Słubice

[YE]

Oklahoma County, OK
Cleveland County, OK
Clark County, NV

I hate 2020 so much.

[Mr. Smith]

CA: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo (airport)

Add: TX - Tarrant (airport), Dallas (airport), Brazos

Add: Burleson, Washington (TX), Austin, Fayette, Grimes, Walker, Trinity, Polk, San Jacinto

Add: Harris, Waller, Lee, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Comal, Denton, Oldham, Potter, Armstrong, Carson, Donnelly, Hall, Childress, Hardeman, Wilbarger, Wichita, Clay, Wise, Montague, Johnson, Hill, McLennan, Falls, Robertson

NM: Colfax, Harding, Union

CO: Las Animas, Huerfano, Pueblo, El Paso

Add (TX): Montgomery, Madison

no change from this, though I may still bag Marin.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

I went to the beach for Christmas

Not counting the counties I drove through

[Estrella]

Slovakia: Galanta, Šaľa, Trnava, Senec, Bratislava, Nitra, Nové Zámky, Levice, Krupina, Zlaté Moravce, Žarnovica, Žiar nad Hronom, Zvolen, Banská Bystrica, Turčianske Teplice, Martin, Ružomberok, Dolný Kubín, Námestovo, Tvrdošin, Prievidza, Bánovce nad Bebravou, Topoľčany, Partizánske.

Sounds impressive but Slovak counties are as big as some countries' municipalities. There are 79 of them in a country the size of Vermont + New Hampshire ffs.

Poland: Żywiec (Silesian Voivodeship) and Nowy Targ (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).

[Хahar 🤔]

As far as seeing the country goes, this has been a great year for me:

[Sol]

As far as seeing the country goes, this has been a great year for me:

Favorite County you visited this year?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

[Хahar 🤔]

As far as seeing the country goes, this has been a great year for me:

Favorite County you visited this year?

I found something to enjoy in every state I was in this year (except Mississippi, where I only drove through and never stopped save for gas), but I think my favorite was Otero County, New Mexico. Walking among the white sands was a truly disorienting experience where I lost my sense of space and direction (I really think it would have been dangerous if I hadn't been with others) and then afterward I had a wonderful meal of green chile enchiladas in Alamogordo. Eddy County next door is home to Carlsbad Cavern, the most striking place I've seen this year, but that was all I saw of that county.

[Dr. MB]

Oregon
Multnomah
Washington

Oregon
Clackamas
Douglas
Jackson
Josephine
Lane
Linn
Marion

Columbia (hit it earlier but forgot to put it in)
Yamhill

Since coronavirus started it's been Washington, Multnomah, Clackamas, Columbia, Marion, and Yamhill.

Clark (Washington)

Clatsop
Deschutes
Hood River
Jefferson
Lincoln
Tillamook
Wasco

Klickitat (Washington)
Skamania (Washington)

Now that I think about it I didn't actually visit Skamania County. But I can check Cowlitz off the list.

So final map:

[ProgressiveModerate]

https://www.yapms.com/app/?m=642j

I’m considering been to as actually spent at least a collective 10 hours in. There’s some counties I’ve traveled through but haven’t really been to

[muon2]

https://www.yapms.com/app/?m=642j

I’m considering been to as actually spent at least a collective 10 hours in. There’s some counties I’ve traveled through but haven’t really been to

I make a similar distinction on my lifetime map of counties, but with separate colors for visited vs traveled through. I don't require 10 hours, but I do require that I intentionally went to see a person or place in the county. A meet up with another Atlasian counts as does a unique shop, but a stop for gas or a meal or sundries at a Walmart doesn't. Many of those are only an hour or two, but I felt that it was more substantial than just driving through or changing planes.