Whose counting?

Nov 25/15  Lady Lake Weather 77 high, 63 low.  Perfect. 
We had an email the other day from camper friends we met in Napa and later in Indio.  (Hi D & M :)   They had said they finally checked off being in 50 states of their United States.  Wow, what an extraordinary thing on their personal bucket list.  Which led us to talking about where have we been since 2011 when we started fulltiming?  Billy has a big map taped to the wall in the cargo trailer which he has been highlighting as we motor along the highways, in the USA and Canada. 
Every time we take off to another campground we fill in a Campers Daily Log sheet.   Sifting through the stack for the last 4 years is interesting. We feel so lucky that we have been to so many wonderful places.  And we still love this lifestyle.  Who knew?  It's not for everyone but it's definitely for us.  Looking through this still feels like we have just touched the tip of the iceberg..... there is so much to see in North America.

campers daily log

In this electronic age we still keep the paper copies of the campgrounds, and they are full of hand written notes (what we liked or didn't like).  Can't help it, we are dinasours!  We have a huge and heavy pendaflex folder where all the USA campgrounds we have stayed at are filed; and a smaller one for Canada.

Campgrounds filed by State alphabetically

Once we asked a fellow who has one of those stickers on the side of his RV "how do you earn your sticker?"  He said he had to camp in the state/province to earn his.  Another camper said he earned his sticker if he stopped in the rest area or at a restaurant along the way.  Seems campers make their own personal rules for earning the sticker.  Funny, we don't personally have those stickers on our coach but they are conversation pieces with fellow campers that's for sure.  Might have to get them after all next time we are at Camping World.

Canada Camping Stickers

USA Camping Stickers

Our curiosity for our personal count was perked up.  So we went through the  folders and a list was made in every state and counted up.  Our rule is that we have to camp in the state;   25 states to date.  231 campgrounds of which only 7 had been stayed at more than once.  
Canada count......  6 provinces to date, no territories. 23 campgrounds of which 2 we stayed at more than once.
We do try to move around and try different campgrounds; so the repeat of parks is pretty low.  You just never know what the park will offer till you camp there, and what you might learn and who you will meet.  Let the adventure continue :)