How many states have you been in?

Comment:

How many states have you been in to meet people

Phyllis replied:

I am proud to say that I have been in all fifty states.  Shiloh won so many state awards that after the Newbery, I finally was able to visit Alaska and Hawaii,  Although South Dakota was the final state we went to.  It was the one state I had not spoken in or traveled through, so one year when my husband and I visited our older son and his family in Minneapolis, we made a side trip to South Dakota.  I am so impressed with the variety in this land of ours, especially traveling by train where you can be in a pear orchard when you leave on a trip and wake up to find snow and mountains the next morning.