License Plate Game

When we go on trips, we like to keep track of the different state (and such) license plates we see. This time before our trip I printed out a fun map/list at about.com. This way I didn't have to write all of them down, just the ones that weren't of the 50 United States. They were already written down in alphabetical order. We just marked them with a colored pencil when we saw them.
Anyway, here is a list of the license plates we saw on our Pacific Northwest trip (give or take- we may have missed some):

Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
(My mother-in-law may have seen a Pennsylvania license plate. I thought I overheard her mentioning that state. Let me know if that's true, Mom).

and the non-state license plates:


Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, U.S. Airforce, U.S. Government

License Plate List

Remember playing the car trip game where you list how many different states/provinces you see license plates for?
We did it on this trip to Las Vegas. So through Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, these are the license plates we saw (in no particular order):


Arkansas
Kansas
Colorado
Alberta
Idaho
Utah
Washington
Indiana
California
Nevada
Oklahoma
Texas
Minnesota
Arizona
Florida
Connecticut
Ontario
Maine
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Illinois
New York
Nebraska
Tennessee
Georgia
Missouri
Oregon


So we got half the states (and a couple of provinces) between the three states where we were traveling.

Now here's the funny part. We went through Arizona to get to Nevada, so I just assumed we'd see some Arizona license plates. We saw not a one on the trip there. Then, on the day we came home, there were two Arizona license plates in the parking lot of our motel. Then on the way home, we saw so many Arizona license plates in all three states.