June License Plate Report

June seemed slow, with only one new sighting — Michigan — in the first three weeks. Then it was boom boom boom, with Louisiana, Utah, and Kansas all showing up in the last week. This is the best midyear tally in years. At the end of June 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, there were 42 states accounted for; in 2017 the number was 40. None of the years between then and now got out of the 30s.

The perennial holdouts of Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota are joined by Hawaii, Arkansas, Kentucky, and West Virginia. A week ago I had a reliable report of West Virginia vacationing in Vineyard Haven but haven’t been able to check it out. The traffic, surprise, surprise, is awful, but hey, it’s Fourth of July weekend, and when the Fourth falls midweek, the weekend is L-O-N-G.

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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