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[Forty-nine of the fifty states I have visited are mentioned in this poem. I have visited all but one of the states in the United States. Can you figure out which state I have never been in?]

I have traveled the world over but like the United States best From Maine to California, north and south, east, and west. Born in West Virginia, I live in the Commonwealth of Kentucky Have visited Vermont, New Hampshire and, of course, New Jersey. Massachusetts, in New England, is historical like Pennsylvania But not so much, I think, as the Commonwealth of Virginia. My military time was spent in the beautiful state of Hawaii, Which is nothing like Wisconsin or the Show Me State Missouri. Montana is a state of wide-open spaces, unlike most of Indiana And neither of them compared to the bayous of south Louisiana New Mexico and Nevada are far out west, not like Arkansas, Lying close to the Great Salt Lake Basin of neighboring Utah. On a trip to visit some friends in the Willamette Valley of Oregon A side trip took me to the northwest corner of Washington, I went through the mountains of Colorado and northern Idaho Before going through Michigan on my return trip home to Ohio. Alabama is a long way from Delaware, not far from Mississippi, I do not remember it having the green mountains of, say, Tennessee I have some old and dear friends I visited in southern Minnesota, I traveled on a Greyhound bus through Badlands of North Dakota. The great central part of the United States lies north of Texas Kansas is a wide, flat state where tall corn grows in summertime. I remember visiting Iowa and Nebraska on several trips out west, It is rather difficult to figure out which state I liked the best. Neither Wyoming nor Connecticut border on North Carolina, Nor does Arizona touch the low country of South Carolina I didn't go through New York or Minnesota on my way to Florida, Consulting my atlas, I found I was in the peach state, Georgia. I have eaten delicious crab cakes by the seashore in Maryland And quickly passed through Providence in small Rhode Island I followed the Lincoln Trail through southern Illinois…then, Having seen Oklahoma, what two states have I never been in?

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Date: 7/16/2021 7:27:00 AM
Wow! Not easy to do, but marvelously done. I hope you get to the other two and soon! Bravo for this one!
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Date: 7/15/2021 6:55:00 AM
Alaska and South Dakota ;) Very nice
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Date: 7/15/2021 9:08:00 AM
You got it, Avery, although I am planning a trip to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore sometime soon. Hope you enjoyed playing this little game. Thanks for the read.
Date: 7/15/2021 12:06:00 AM
Is It Maine and Vermont ??????
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Date: 7/15/2021 9:10:00 AM
Nope, Shirley. Try again or look above! Thanks so much for playing along and the read. I hope you enjoyed the trip.
Date: 7/14/2021 11:39:00 PM
Man, I was so wrong about New Jersey.
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Date: 7/15/2021 9:09:00 AM
Oh, well, it can happen! (chuckle)
Date: 7/14/2021 11:37:00 PM
Milt, I think you need to see Alaska and New Hampshire. By the way, you seem to have the patience of a monk for being able to write such a long poem. Lol! Cheers!!...ab
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Date: 7/15/2021 9:32:00 PM
Just had time on my hands!
Date: 7/14/2021 11:30:00 PM
Milt, I think you need to see Anchorage, Alaska and Atlantic City, New Jersey. by the way, you seem have the patience of a monk for being able to write such a long poem. Lol! Cheers!!...ab
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Date: 7/15/2021 9:09:00 AM
Nah, I just sat down a day or so ago and thought about it. It was fun for me. You're half right, Anselmo, but I've been to New Jersey. Thanks for the read and playing along.
Date: 7/14/2021 6:03:00 PM
I have figured out the two states you've missed out on, Milt: 1.) The State of Absolute Certainty; 2.) The State of Bewildered Confusion. Am I right?! ~ Tennesse Ernie Ford in my Old Kentucky Home
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Date: 7/14/2021 7:45:00 PM
Ha! Ha! It was just a fun little exercise, write I did to see if anyone would play. Nope. I'm been in both of those states, but the two I haven't been in are missing in the poem...and you'll just have to find them. Thanks for your read...I think.

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