[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Well, I’ve seen them all save for Hawaii. I have mixed feeling but am sure it is between New Jersey and West Virginia.

[Dog Gone]

I'm curious to hear your opinion.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Having spent 18 days covering over 4,000 miles of this country this summer, I have a few new opinions of the various states I visited. My most impressionable memory - Dothan Alabama had cockroaches that could take down my 100 lb. golden retriever. I was on tour as a volunteer with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corp and we slept in classrooms at various high schools near our performance venues. When we were ushered into the room in Dothan, there were about 15 HUGE cockroaches on the floor - 14 were dead and I shooshed the other one toward the men's staff room. Oh, BTW, this was their home ec room......

Florida was just one huge steambath - imagine rain without the drops. Texas not only felt hot, but almost everything they eat is extremely hot - to me this is redundant. I'm already sweating (or as we ladies say "glistening") I don't want to sweat from the inside too.

My favorite stops were Michigan (South Lyon) and Enid, OK, it was hot but they had a private shower for the 5 of us women who toured with about 150 guys. This promoted those people to sainthood in my eyes.

[185JHP]

I don't remember eactly how to define median, mean, and mode - so I can't use those terms for a pitness index. And there are probably some decent FR types in each state. Exempting them, and using anecdotal experiences to arrive at a per capita pitness rating, I pick WVA - one of your choices - and Kansas. I used to wonder "How could they keep electing Dole?" Then I spent some time there...

[MSCASEY]

PING

[linn37]

new jersey,the smell could gag a maggot on a meat wagon and remember the worry about medical trash on the shores? I did pick up an IV bag off the beach....ewwwwwwww