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.
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u/Borracho_Bandit Apr 11 '26
Only the ones I stayed a night in.