The License Plate Game

Summer is the construction season in Michigan, and to while away my time while I am stuck in traffic, I've been playing the license plate game. In the last weeks of August, as the students begin to return to East Lansing for another school year, I am seeing out of state plates that reminds me that we have students from every state in the US attending Michigan State University, and reminds me again about my goal to see them all.

In the three weeks starting the school year, I have seen plates from Idaho, Florida, Texas, Colorado, and New Jersey (day one); Maryland, California, and Minnesota on day two; Indiana, Montana, Illinois, Virginia, Utah, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nevada, and Pennsylvania (days three through twelve).

I have been in perhaps half of these. It makes me want to get in the car and just go - there is so much more to see than I have seen!

(I especially like the plates from the mountain west such as Nevada's -- I grew up with water but I find mountains equally fascinating. )