I spent the last week of 2013 driving across the country in a rented SUV with a few pieces of furniture and a lot of odds and ends from my mother-in-law’s house (Which makes it sound like something bad happened to her, but really she’s retiring and simplifying her life somewhat). Since I had never been to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas (except for airports), or New Mexico, I got to add 5 states to my checklist. So here, in graphic form, is my current states visited map.