The whole pencil-and-paper thing is getting pretty old-school at this point, so I found a good base map and have started the process of coloring it in. So far, though, I've only got as far as 1991.
Yeah, so that (plus a few Alaska boroughs) was the extent of my travels after four years of college and a couple of what felt like "big road trips" during my first year out. I'm a -- what's the word? Oh, "hick."
I found this map while I was leafing through the county notebook. It's from only about five or six years later, 1997ish. It shows the percentage of counties I'd tallied for each state.
I found this map while I was leafing through the county notebook. It's from only about five or six years later, 1997ish. It shows the percentage of counties I'd tallied for each state.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJM5_HwrJH655PZaIRGV-PMJNv5xHQIpRSDjVknYpGW1sEGXmiCkMGLArtt8__M69XFYgoRsI7pukD65owBAtBFHd1bWns-mQnvIG7sVpqPP6IYR0SgvACLfUHorkdcqmaG8fVgw/s400/Counties+per+state+Oct+09.jpg)
So black is 100%, brown 72%, purple 41 - 52%, blue 30-34%, green 15-22%, and yellow 2-7%.
It was satisfying to apply the same scale to my current "collection." The percentages aren't clustered the same way anymore, so on this one, black is still 100%, brown 72-99%, purple 41-71%, blue 30-40%, green 15-29%, and yellow 2-14%.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6ilYqJKauICrTpVuUhz-k5Dsq5Ehq1eNtmlMLxj-mXni47kboAGx-UOAetJQbS_GzRCDk6sA_s2Jq5MB-Len0Ma6FZK9fqvo8VMwy6sdmIBEYLLWJhLl3oXO9zyKgLZGGBAn5w/s400/Counties+per+state+2009.jpg)
Cartophiliac has his county map online. Where's yours?
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Anyone doing DorkFest: be advised that I am going to be offline all day Saturday. So, we'll take a look at the ol' entries when I get home on Sunday.
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6 comments:
I bow down before the Dork County Master.
this seems like it should definitely be an online sort of activity. every time you start talking about your counties, i think i should go back and try to do this myself, but i seriously lack the motivation.
btw: i just saw an article on a study done in china that found that fruit bats engage in oral sex on a regular basis. another awesome thing about bats.
Looking at your map, I can see that you're in serious need of a giant Texas and southern New Mexico trip. Followed up by one to the depths of the deepest hollers in Appalachia, and the windswept northern plains....
East Texas is really neat-- the Pineywoods-- as is the Hill Country. But there are a lot of counties in Texas that (forgive me, Lone Star State) ain't worth seein'...trust me.
I just have an image of you sitting down with a box of Crayolas and coloring your map....with your tongue sticking out, deep in concentration.
@Jenners: Actually, I use colored pencils.
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