Miscellaneous: West Virginia! My Quest is Over

Silly as it is, I've been amusing myself by trying to see a license plate from every state of the Union (in the course of my regular daily meanderings, without making trips for the purpose). North Dakota and West Virginia long eluded me, but I saw a North Dakota plate a few months ago and yesterday I finally saw a West Virginia plate. Only took about three years.

But now I feel like I want to start all over again....

[Update: Inevitably, I have started all over. Since writing this post, as of May 20, I've seen: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.]

Miscellaneous: North Dakota License Plate Finally Spotted

Yesterday I spotted a car near Santa Rosa, CA bearing a North Dakota license plate. That's not a big deal, except in the context of a game I've been playing with myself for about three years now. I've been trying to see a license plate from each of the 50 United States--without going out of my way to do that. I had been stuck at 48 states for well over a year.

North Dakota was one of the two I'd never seen (oddly, South Dakota is moderately common around here; I've seen South Dakota plates a handful of times). Logically, Hawaii and Alaska would seem the most unlikely in Northern California, but I see Alaska plates once or twice a month and Hawaii not infrequently either. In addition to the 49 states I've now seen, I've seen plates from Washington D.C. and even the Marshall Islands--all in the course of my regular wanderings around the San Francisco Bay Area. One state still eludes me.... Care to guess which one it is, or what the other rare ones seem to be?