CHALLENGE: 

DATE/NUMBER:  29-Nov-2002/51

MAP:  The Passport Hitchhiker wants to travel to all 50 states. Its stamp is like a passport -- before it is placed in a state it has never visited, you carve the two letter state abbreviation into an empty space in the stamp's grid to indicate its visit to that state (if it visits some place that is not a US state, no change to the stamp is made). If you find it, and don't feel like dealing with the carving, count it as a find and leave it there, or move it to another box in the same state.

Here is a table of the state abbreviations in alphabetical order, which corresponds to the layout on the stamp (a 5x10 grid). It would be nice to keep them in order on the stamp.

NOTE 2:  This is a "silent" hitchhiker, meaning I'm an old curmudgeon who isn't into all the logging, chitchat, and tracking on the web of hitchhikers. Like a few others, this is my preference, but its not the end of my world if such chitchat takes place.

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