Year-End License Plate Report

True, there’s still more than an hour left in 2013 in this time zone, but unless one of the AWOL states drives into the driveway and honks the horn, I’m not going to spot it.

So December, and 2013, end as November did. Not a bad year. Spotted 44 different state plates, same total as last year. Didn’t spot 7: Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana (what’s with the missing Ms??), Nebraska, and — big surprise — North Dakota.

Hawaii, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, and Guess Who were no shows in 2012 as well.

Here’s to a filled-in map in 2014!

2013 nov license plate

About Susanna J. Sturgis

Susanna edits for a living and writes to survive. Having been preoccupied with electoral politics since 2016, she is now getting back to writing -- and she's got plenty to write about. Her blog "The T-Shirt Chronicles," started at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is a meandering memoir based on her out-of-control T-shirt collection. Her other blogs include "From the Seasonally Occupied Territories," about being a year-round resident of Martha's Vineyard, and "Write Through It," about writing, editing, and how to keep going.

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