Travels of Mr. P
A Puzzle by David Pleacher
Fill in each blank with the name of a town in the U.S. A list of the 35 towns used is provided below.
I live in __________, Colorado because I am not a name dropper. I wanted to take a trip but I wasn't sure where to go, so I traveled to __________, Texas.
I'm a math guy so my first stop was at America's first Dot-com city in __________, Oregon. Then I continued on to __________, South Carolina.
These math towns gave me an urge to appear on a game show, so I took off for __________, New Mexico.
But I crashed my car in __________, Maryland. Nothing was hurt except for my size 12 shoes, so I headed to __________, Texas.
I decided I needed a new pair of shoes, so I took off for __________, North Carolina.
I was getting hungry so I had breakfast in __________, Florida, __________, Mississippi, and __________, Indiana.
Lunch was in __________, Massachusetts and __________, South Dakota.
Dinner was in __________, Arizona, followed by dessert in __________, New Mexico.
There is nothing too unusual about me so I went to __________, Kentucky.
In fact, some people say that I am dull or unimaginative so I then went to __________, Oregon after that.
Things were just OK so I decided to go to __________, Oklahoma.
I began to question my journey so I went to __________, Arizona.
It was getting near December 25, so I went to __________, Florida.
But I wanted to see Santa so I headed to __________, Alaska and then on to __________, Indiana.
I was missing my wife's kisses so I went to __________, Tennessee and then on to __________, Colorado.
But then I came to my senses in __________, Ohio - I didn't need to travel all over the country.
I don't need __________, Utah, or __________, Arizona, or __________, Kentucky or __________, West Virginia or __________, Georgia or __________, Kansas
or __________, Missouri or __________, Iowa or __________, West Virginia.
I just needed to follow my heart, sing John Prine's song, and head to __________, Kentucky.
Hint:
Here are the names used in the puzzle (in alphabetical order):
Accident,
Bacon,
Beauty,
Bigfoot,
Boring,
Bountiful,
Brilliant,
Carefree,
Christmas,
Fame,
Friendly,
Half.com,
Hot Coffee,
Ideal,
Loafer's Glory,
Loveland,
Ninety Six,
No Name,
North Pole,
Okay,
Ordinary,
Paradise,
Pie Town,
Sandwich,
Santa Claus,
Smileyberg,
Success,
Sweet Lips,
Tea,
Tortilla Flat,
Truth or Consequences,
Two Egg,
Uncertain,
What Cheer, and
Why.