People say that there are fifty states, but that's because they are forgetting to include Canada. <ducks>

Thanks for the laugh, Larry. :)

ditto, Aaron

I thought Canada voted to remain a territory, like Puerto Rico?

My parents told me I was from New Jersey, but we left when I was a year old. When I was 36 I drove up from Texas to visit my grandmother in Connecticut, driving through New Jersey, but I did not see any towns or cities, only trees alongside the New Jersey Turnpike and occasional signs indicating the names of towns and cities that were allegedly located alongside said turnpike, but I didn't stop and investigate, as I was running late. (Here in Texas you can see Dallas and Fort Worth and Austin and San Antonio directly from the highway as you pass through, as they don't have tree buffers and the interstate(35) passes right through the middle of town, even in Temple. The only city that I was able to see directly from the interstate when I was up north was Baltimore.) So I still don't know if New Jersey exists, although I suspect it does.

I was in Yellowstone Park last year with my family. One of the joys of taking long car trips is "collecting" states.
starting from Michigan we collected Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, And Wisconsin. While we were in Yellowstone we saw a sign to Idaho. We had heard of Idaho so we decided to "collect" it. As you can probably guess, the road to "Idaho" was closed. Something about a huge forest fire. The whole experience ruined our trip and until I read your post, I didn't really know why.

Update: Come to find out the huge forest fire was on the east side of Yellowstone and we were prevented from going to Cody, Wyoming. However, I don't think that being wrong on one fact should negate the entire thrust of my point.

Your humor in sarcasm is pure genius!

We always said Wyoming was imaginary when I was growing up, for teh same reasons. We also had an extra day in the week, Frodensday, which came between Wednesday ad Thursday, so you could take care of all the other other stuff.