Thursday, September 02, 2004
License Plate Game
As if there wasn't already enough evidence that I am a giant nerd, I feel I must share perhaps the single most exciting thing that happened to me yesterday: I saw an Alaskan license plate.
You must understand, I was raised on playing the license plate game on long car trips. Every spring break, my brother and I would go to visit our grandparents in Florida. This is perhaps the single best route in the country to spot the greatest variety of state license plates, thanks to all the snowbirds flocking that direction. But no matter how many states we got, Alaska and Hawaii remained elusive. To this day, to spot an Alaska plate is like finding gold. I may have to start my own list of license plates spotted now, just to take advantage of this.
As if there wasn't already enough evidence that I am a giant nerd, I feel I must share perhaps the single most exciting thing that happened to me yesterday: I saw an Alaskan license plate.
You must understand, I was raised on playing the license plate game on long car trips. Every spring break, my brother and I would go to visit our grandparents in Florida. This is perhaps the single best route in the country to spot the greatest variety of state license plates, thanks to all the snowbirds flocking that direction. But no matter how many states we got, Alaska and Hawaii remained elusive. To this day, to spot an Alaska plate is like finding gold. I may have to start my own list of license plates spotted now, just to take advantage of this.
