tpaw travels mprU.S. Sen. Al Franken may be able to draw them freehand in a couple minutes, but Gov. Pawlenty is on track to actually visit all 50 states by next July. That’s if he keeps up the peripatetic pace he’s set in the 105 days since he announced he wouldn’t seek a third term — and started tripping over his own itinerary. Minnesota Public Radio has made a map of Gov. Pawlenty’s travels, coloring in states as he fulfills his oft-made promise “to finish up my term as governor both in Minnesota and around the country.”

Pawlenty finally came clean late last month about the presidential ambitions behind his Johnny Appleseed-like nation-traipsing.

MPR vows to keep the map updated and, even with its crack news team monitoring T-Paw’s every move, asks for help with any gubernatorial sojourns they might have missed.

Here’s the current MPR map (green for official travel on state business, red for personal travel):