maps

[silentq]

This morning I unthinkingly pitched the road atlas that got soaked when the car took on 2 feet of water. It wasn't until I was well away from the dumpster that I remembered that the double page map of North America at the start of the book was where I'd been highlighting all of the highways on which I'd driven. :/ Basically, if it's near the

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[greylock]

It wasn't until I was well away from the dumpster that I remembered that the double page map of North America at the start of the book was where I'd been highlighting all of the highways on which I'd driven. :/

You can't rescue it?

[silentq]

It was pretty water logged, and there was mold growing on other things, so all I'd want to do would be to take a picture of those pages at this point. Not sure when the dumpster is emptied, or what's gone in since, but I might give it a shot tomorrow morning. Probably not though. :) I had my fill of dumpster diving when I had to build a bike box out of discarded McDonald's cardboard boxes last month.

[talesinsdaughtr]

Related note: Let me know if you ever need to do that again. Conservation gets tons of big boxes and I can drag some down to you on a lunch break.

[silentq]

Thanks for the offer, but I hope to never have to do that again. :) It was an emergency, in that we had biked to the Springfield bus terminal and were told that they wouldn't put the bikes in the bus hold w/o boxes, but they'd thrown out the box that I'd left with them when I took the bus from Boston.
My eventual travel-with-bike goal is to get a folding one that can fit in a regular suitcase. :) I actually have enough saved up for one, I need to start test riding...

[inulro]

That reminds me - somehow the map detailing my trip to France in 1989 has ended up in my parents' house and I've never got it back.

I do that every trip. We just got our Languedoc map out from our trip 8 years ago when we went again in May; despite it being clearly illustrated, neither of us could remember having been to Mirepoix the first time! (And only vaguely recalled it when we passed through again).

[silentq]

I'll pick up detailed local maps when I go places, so I still have that treasure trove at least. :)
Part of why I started writing my online travel diaries was to help me remember details from my trips!

[jin_aili]

your nieces and nephews might not be bored ... I've always been fascinated by such records, though they are mostly my Dad's. He had a world map with pins for every airport he's been through (I think over 300 now), and a US map with pins for every county he's been in. I guess I've inherited the obsession to some extent, facilitated by my own rather extensive traveling thus far. I forget how many airports I've hit, but it's between 75 and 100. Anyhow, I just think it wouldn't hurt to inspire your nieces/ nephews/ friends' kids to be interested in travel. Real maps with lines or pins, imho, make a more visceral impact than online maps, no matter how cool it is to be able to interact with the online map more.

[silentq]

Good point, my parents got me (and my brother and sister) interested in travel by talking about it, and taking us on trips. I do have all the local maps that I picked up on various trips, and maybe if I ever get the corkboard up I can put another North American or world map on there and start marking it up for posterity. :)
I have no idea how many airports I've been through, the one that sticks out is Frankfurt since I've transferred through there many times yet never actually visited Germany. :)