(most of u wont) remember wen travel to a new city involved a regional map missing all the details? plus a map of the train system only vaguely gesturing at the geographical relationships? plus an old guidebook with a series of small detailed (outdated) maps? plus a paper map from hotel concierge with hand written notes and stars and underlining?
and then hiking- have u ever been on the AT w a map that shows the trail in terms of hiking distance and altitude, so ur counting the uphills n the downhills to figure out where u r?
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Tweet · Oct 9, 2023remember using a paper map to plan a route to an address you'd never visited before? and running into a washed out bridge and having to plan a…Reply · Oct 9, 2023and asking other travelers for recommendations, carrying a little notebook and pen to keep track of what they'd advised? (and secretly judging the…Reply · Oct 9, 2023@Ryan_Gasoline haha yeah, and then you'd pull out your guidebook... and then your map...Reply · Apr 14, 2023ha I do! and before that I remember plotting out directions to new addresses on paper map books