Over the last six months or so, Drew and I have been noticing a lot of out of state license plates in the area. And some states that are kind of surprising—like cars that would have had to do some major traveling to get here.
My parents were driving down the state on I-5 earlier this month, and I said to my mom, “Keep a lookout for out of state plates, I think there are a lot right now.” And then a little bit later I was in the car and sent her a photo of a Hawaii license plate saying, “See??”
And her response was, “We just saw Alaska.”
Alaska and Hawaii?! Those are the wildest ones to get!
So I started keeping track on a map print out to keep track of what we see. The rules are:
a) We’re currently only counting anything we see north of Stockton and south of Sacramento. So we’ve seen more state plates on our way into the Bay Area, but outside of that range, we’re not counting them.
b) We’re not counting big trucks, which are supposed to be traveling all over the place. This is just for your standard personal vehicles.
This map shows what we’ve clocked just in the month of October.
Stay tuned for license plate updates! Let’s see how long it takes to get all 50 states.
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