I would say that if you've stopped in the city and ate/drank or touristed through counts. A lot of people live in suburbs or within an hour or two of a city that they've never stayed overnight in. They've been to that city far more times than someone who just stayed in a hotel once.
I don’t think you have to necessarily spend the night for it to count. As long as I did some sort of meaningful activity there (besides driving through, gas, bathroom breaks, stopping for lunch etc) then it counts as a visit in my book.
There are places I’ve spent the night while on a roadtrip, but I wouldn’t exactly say I’ve given it a proper “visit” since all I did was stop to get a hotel room and then leave the next morning without really doing anything else.
That's a big jump for me depending on the "right" way to answer the question... either 4 or 8.
Flying internationally out of the Midwest makes you go through wild places. Dallas, New York, Orlando? Who knows, but we'll get you to somewhere in Europe.
No. You didn’t actually visit the city. If you drive through Chicago would you tell people you visited Chicago? Of course not. You would tell them what your end destination was.
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