July License Plate Report

As Julys go, this was a good one. Hell, as 2023 goes, July was a good month: four new sightings met the bar set by April and equaled the total for May and June: Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Michigan. See how solid the West is looking! (OK, I haven’t got Hawaii yet, but that’s sort of in a category by itself.)

It’s always slim pickin’s the last several months of the year, but I’m holding out hope for several of the missing states, especially New Mexico and Indiana, and why not Kansas, West Virginia, Alabama, and Arkansas? Could I forget the year I spotted Nebraska the last week in December?

We shall see.

Update, Aug. 7, 1 p.m. Since the first of the month I’ve added Kansas and West Virginia to the map. Whoa! I think of August as the beginning of the downhill slide to the end of the year, but I scored seven new plates in August 2022, then one each in September, October, and November. Of the three states I was still missing at the turn of the year, I’ve already got two: Wyoming and West Virginia. Nebraska is still AWOL, but I don’t think any of my fellow license plate spotters have Nebraska yet.

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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