As many of you know, Felty Helmuth, one of the matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill, loves to play the license plate game. I made that part of Felty’s character because I adore the license plate game. So, I have decided that I want to play again in 2107 starting today! Would you like to join me? I’d love to hear of your license plate searching adventures and I would also love to hear when you find all fifty states.
In 2016 I found my last license plate in November. My daughter had been having a rough time with her pregnancy, and I drove the 45 minutes to her house to pick up her children and bring them up to my house to sleep over for a few days. As I was driving into her subdivision, I saw Rhode Island parked on the street. I was so excited, I quickly stopped the car and just sat there looking at her for a few minutes. So the moral of the story is that no good deed goes unrewarded.
I’d love to hear your stories of past adventures and also your stories this year. There will be a special place on my home page throughout the year that you can click on to bring you back to this license plate game blog page where you can enter comments and share your adventures. I’ll be here too! Happy hunting!
Darn, guess I can’t count the car from Utah that I kept seeing at work last year. You know what that means. If the mountain won’t come to Mohammad…
I agree! There are lots of Utah plates where I live. 🙂
Hey Jennifer!
I’ve got lots of author events this year, which means lots of traveling. So I’m going to join you in the License Plate game!
Blessings!
Naomi
Yeah! I am so glad! If I go to Orlando this year for the RWA Convention, I will find lots of plates there. I did that three years ago. I just walked around the parking lot at Disneyworld and found like 25 plates.
When my husband and I made a New England fall foliage trip back in October, I told him we could play the license plate game to help pass the miles. He was no fun and didn’t take me up on it. I should have played by myself anyway but didn’t! 🙂
Definitely, Pam. I usually play by myself because it doesn’t excite the rest of the family the way it does me. 🙂
I saw a plate the other day from California and I’m in Ohio. We’re in an area where there are several colleges. So, that might have been the reason.
That makes sense, Beverly. About four years ago, I needed Rhode Island. It was my last one, so I decided to drive down to the college town about an hour south. (Yes, I am a committed license plate game player.) College towns have lots of different plates. While I was driving down there, a truck with a Rhode Island license plate passed me. How cool is that!
I was driving down the highway yesterday and saw New Hampshire! I was so excited. Here are the plates I’ve seen so far:
Arizona
California
Colorada
Illinois
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
New Hampshire
Ohio
Oregon
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wyoming
I have 9 already. That’s pretty good for living in a small town. I have seen most of mine at work, because it is right off of a major interstate. We get a lot of travelers. I can send you a pic of my car, if that will help. LOL
Thanks, Tonya, but I don’t know if that counts. 🙂 North and South Carolina are usually not too hard to find, surprisingly enough.
I saw Rhode Island yesterday! Here’s my updated list:
Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
I am enjoying this a lot. If I have time, I drive through the parking lot at work looking at all the plates on the cars. I know I’ll not get them all, but I want to see how close I can come. Surprisingly, I have 21 already. But now I am starting to see the same ones over and over, so it is getting harder.
Tonya,
21 is amazing! I am always so excited when I see a new one, but you’re right, they get harder and harder to find. I saw Louisiana yesterday. I was so excited!
Here is what I have left to find:
Alabama
Alaska
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Hawaii
West Virginia
I finally saw West Virginia! So now all I have left is Delaware and Alabama.
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