What’s Left on the US Map

[porkwithbones]

I’ve gotten quite a lot done. Here’s a look at what remains:

French knots for:

Kansas City (both sides of the border)
Hometown
Dad’s family farm
Arkadelphia, Jonesboro, Russellville, Memphis
Tulsa, OKC
St Louis
Conway, Little Rock
Los Angeles
Overnight layover in Charlotte, NC
Helena Blues Festival
Atlanta, GA
Multiple visits to WI (Kettle Moraine, plus ???)
One long trip to MI (Mackinac Island, plus???)
One short but important camping trip to Minnesota
Visited DC with Granddad — outline
Houston to visit Laridian! — French knot
New York — French knot
New Jersey — knot
A trip to near (but not in) DC when Acorn was very small indeed — need to find out exactly where this was!
Detroit, MI
Atlanta, GA
In AR:
*Cotham's in Scott, AR which is no longer there, the Plantation Museum which is at Scott and the Toltec Mounds which is out in the Scott/Keo area of AR.
Petit Jean. Sugar Loaf? Diamond mine, twice. Hot Springs.
Heber Springs, Mountain View and the Blanchard Springs Caverns at least twice
Mount Pinnacle
Fayetteville
Ft Smith
Bentonville/Rogers
Bella Vista
Eureka Springs
Mountain View
Arkadelphia
Magnolia
Texarkana
Pine Bluff
West Memphis
Jonesboro
Harrison
Woolly Hollow
Paris/Mt Magazine

Hearts and stars:
loved ones in WA and WY, OK, TX, AR, NC

Road trips:

* driven from Durham to DC, up the I-85/95 corridor, and had lunch in Richmond, I believe. He's also traveled to Baltimore, MD. (aquarium, mostly), and the air and space museum in Herndon, VA.
* flown to Orlando, Florida, and traveled within Florida to Disney World, The Kennedy Space Center (at Cape Canaveral), through Tampa (had a meal there) and along the coast from St. Petersburg up to about Tarpon Springs.
Trip by train from LR to Chicago and back
Girl Scouts trip in senior year: road trip all around TX — contact troop leader for help remembering details — running stitch and French knots
Trip through IA to Kansas City — stopped overnight in IA due to blizzard
A week in MS — don’t remember where exactly, my brother might know. I was doing a favor for his friend. Acorn was very small, but he was a good traveler! knot if I can discover the city.

Within NC:
* Durham to Boone (and Tweetsie Railroad park), Asheville, Mt. Airy, Greensboro, Hillsborough, Wilmington (along 40), Topsail Island, Carolina Beach, Emerald Island, Kure Beach, the Outer Banks. He's been to the aquariums at Fort Fisher, and Pine Knoll Shores, and in Tampa, FL and Baltimore, MD.
AR:
*Gaston's on the White River, driving from Sherwood to Marshall, Harriet, Yellville on up to Bull Shoals and to Gaston's