If you've been in an airport and ONLY the airport in a state, does that count as having visited

the state?

In my book, you cross the state line, it counts. :thumbsup:

Just as much as merely driving through a state on the way to someplace else...

To me, "visited" means that you stopped long enough to take a look around. If you never set foot outside of an airport*, there's no real way you could have looked around.

* I'd say the same thing about driving a car through a state on the way to another place.

done? I'd say no. The St Louis airport however has those death boxes. A glass room covered in smoke which is a designated smoking area. I'm a smoker but would never go into one unless I already bypassed security checkpoints.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/visit

not the first recognized use of the word. No.

3. to come or go to:

And what I say goes! :P ;) :)

If so, yes. }(

I've been through Dallas/Ft. Worth airport. But only to switch flights. :)

you're not missing anything. The best part of the trip was leaving.

At the Texas Chili Parlor here in Austin they used to have a big jar with a sign on it
"Environmental Protection Fund"
"All your donations will go to building an escape proof fence around Houston."

houstonpress.com - restaurant guide

the only thing we did do was eat at fancy restaurants. My coworker and I wandered around the city for 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon around 5ish during our only free time and found the defunct Enron building and nothing was open and saw maybe 40 people total. For a "10 largest US cities" city, it was a ghost town. We ended up going to a movie at the Angelika.

is only open for "business hours" (Mon-Fri, breakfast and lunch-only.) Thus the link to the Houston Press. We have a very large city here to explore ;) There are some downtown clubs and restaurants, but they are few and far between. Venture out into the rest of the Greater Houston Area for what you missed.

Houston also has the second-largest Indian population in the country, a huge Middle Eastern population, Russians, Latinos, Cubans, Venezuelans, you name it. The cuisines are almost endless. And as mentioned, we have some wonderful museums and collections. Check out Houston Press and you'll see more :)

in Houston.

http://www.menil.org/collection/CyTwomblyInDepth.php

If I make it back, I might check it out.

don't know anyone in Texas -- but if we come home this year, The Menil will be worth a drive to Houston, just for the Twombly Gallery and the Rothko Chapel. :)

:D

I switched flights in Atlanta. If it counts, I've been to Georgia.

I've been to DFW, but I've never set foot in Texas.

And Ohio (Cincinnati airport). and Washington (Spokane airport).

For example, I've had layovers in Chicago, but have never been to IL otherwise. I don't count that state as one I have visited.

I'd say driving through is different because you get to see the scenery (even if it's just highways and rest stops) more than an airport would allow

Airports are a weird Forbidden Zone.

I've changed planes at CVG a million times, but I would never claim to have visited Kentucky. Kentucky is horses, mint juleps, coal mines, and kick-ass basketball, not a food court and the Comair gates.

when in fact we just stopped at those airports for the plane to refuel. The reason why I say that is because we never got the opportunity to walk around and experience the culture. I think Iceland has one airport. The airport in Germany was the frankfurt-hahn airport. I must say though Germany is quite beautiful and it's style is unique to what we have in America from flying above Germany. Lots of windmills that I saw. For that matter I never been to Atlanta, just the airport other then that whenever a plane lands somewhere either I'm going there or I've already been inside the state as I usually travel along the west coast.

chain restaurants. I mean is Denny's or IHOP different in other states?

And yes, I can tell you from experience that IHops and Denny'ses vary from state to state.

IMHO, in an airport you are mostly going to meet travellers and you're not going to see any landscape or architecture outside of the building, so it's not much different than flying overhead in a plane. Driving across a state, you're going to at least view the scenery. I've spent longer stranded in a Denver airport than I spent driving through Deleware, but I feel more like I've been to Deleware than to Colorado.


Set your own rules, though, life is all about perception. :)

I don't think that would count. So stopping in a state and looking out the window shouldn't count either.

non-travel-related action. Otherwise, you're just in transit, not visiting.

IMO, that is... :)

sister, about 4 years old, thought the airport was the university. How cute is that!!!

so i've been there(and back), mate. oy.

spend money on an overpriced sandwich or beer or something to contribute to the local economy :)

One of the most famous places in Illinois. I got accosted by a Hare Krishna who gave me a book and asked for a donation, I gave him the change I had in my pockets, ten cents, and he took the book back and left. I was 16 years old and wary, no way was I gonna pull money out of my sock to give him for a book I didn't want and had no interest in! I think I also ate a hamburger and French Fries there. I visited the shops there at O'Hare, the main airport of Chicago, but bought no souveniors. On arrival and takeoff I got to see the majestic Chicago skyline rimming the edge of the huge blue Lake Michigan...

So yes and no to have I visited Chicago, I have memories of the place and haggled with one of her fine citizens while there but unlike Elvis I never left the building!

REALLY having VISITED, or something else? Doesn't count as REALLY HAVING VISITED!

On a transcontinental trip, I once had a stopover at O'Hare, but I would never claim to have been to Illinois.

My opinion is that to say you've been somewhere, you have to have an impression of the place, although that criterium is not cut and dried. Airport terminals, which are hermetically sealed bubbles unto themselves, definitely don't count.

and here is why. You can say that you have been to the state, sure! But I dont think that it counts as actually VISITING the state! Know what I mean jelly bean?! I was in Phoenix once for an hour layover on the way to Vegas so technically I have been there but I didnt actually visit the city.

It sure felt like I visited New Jersey.

then again I can now say I was to Guatamala too (layover from Costa Rica to Denver)

I spent three hours in Australia, at the Sydney Airport, on April 20. I was never supposed to be there, but as rain in Houston forced me to miss my Auckland flight, I got to see the famous operahouse from the air as well as much of the rest of the city. I spent all of the rest of my time in a three-hour layover in the International Terminal ;)

otherwise I'd be inclined to say no.

:D

you're arrested in an airport. You'd be tried in that state, wouldn't you?


(I guess the moral of this is, don't commmit crimes in an airport. Don't even get ARRESTED in an airport.)

Definitely outside the airport! And what about long delays that force you to sleep in the airport?

that way I've visited all but 4 states: Alaska, Hawaii, and the Dakotas

should be ok to count it:toast:

Would that count?