"If you've been to a city's airport, can you say that you have been to that city?" I once had a question similar to that one from Donna Stonecipher's poem "Inlay 4 (Susan Sontag)" (from "The Cosmpolitan", 2008): What counts as having been in a state in the United States? My conclusion was that I had to have eaten or drunk something in the state, so when I wanted to tick off the last of the lower 48 (Vermont), I made sure to have a coffee there. But now I'm not sure if have ever stopped in Delaware. "If airports counted, she could more than double her list of vanquished cities." (Andrew Shields, #111words, 3 January 2026)