February License Plate Report

February’s tally is always dwarfed by January’s for obvious reasons, but considering that I scored a strong 28 plates in January, spotting 4 in February would be a good showing even if the 4 didn’t include Idaho and Alabama. But they did!

Georgia and North Carolina finally showed up, leaving — as usual — Delaware as the last East Coast holdout.

What to expect in March? I just went looking for the March 2023 map — and discovered that there wasn’t one because there were zero sightings in March 2023. So I went further back, to 2022, when March brought the year-to-date tally up to only 22. I’m guessing that reluctance to travel in the heyday of COVID-19 was still a factor, although it’s possible that I didn’t go out much or wasn’t paying attention when I did.

So for March I’m betting on Michigan, Arizona, New Mexico, and Kentucky, and at least one of the four missing states south of Minnesota. Watch this space.

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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