At first glance it looks pretty much the same as the end-of-August map, right? Now take another look to the left of California. Hawaii! Toward the end of the month, I took a swing through the parking lot at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital — a good source of unusual license plates, especially in the summer — and there, tucked into one of the smaller lots, was an SUV with Hawaii plates.
Coloring it in on the map, I realized that Hawaii was #45 — a number that this year has come to have other, less-than-halcyon connotations. No matter: as far as the license plate game is concerned, 45 is Hawaii, nothing more, nothing less.
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 
Wow! Getting real close, Susanna.
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Wow… if this keeps up the Vineyard might sink into the sea!
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I wish I were lucky enough to live on the island to count plate states! You do have me looking when I visit though.
the number 45 will never have the same basic common sense numerical meaning alone again. 😦
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No kidding. 45 has taken on the trappings of 666, the mark of the beast.
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Susanna, you’ve hooked me. I’m looking for the Nevada plate and looking around at everything as I travel the Island, seeing small things I’d never noticed before (great tree there). Thanks!
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If you see North Dakota, you must call me ASAP! Welcome to the club!
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