Are you good at reading maps?

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atlas, maps, postaday2012, traveling

I am very good at reading maps, I always have been. Traveling with my sister around Europe with our backpacks, I had maps from every single town and city and finding my way was simple. Maps make sense to me, ever since I was a little girl I always liked looking at Atlases and maps plotting my next destination and revisiting roads previously traveled. I would say that since traveling has been an important part of my life since I can remember, I would say that maps would be a natural extension of that experience. I really like seeing the difference that time makes on maps, just recently there was an exciting find in Germany, a 500 year old map of the new world with the first time use of the word America, it had been found in a math book. I would have loved to have been there for that find.

Where am I?

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London, maps, postaday2012

Describe the last time you got really lost.

June 8, 2012

Where Am I?

London Eye, London

I was in London, England during the summer of 1987 attending the NYU summer program for 6 weeks. I absolutely loved it, the city of London is an amazing place; vibrant, diverse, historic and beautiful. I made it a habit to walk throughout all of London with my ever trusty map. One day I went into a section of London which wasn’t to be found on the map, I had the street on the map but where I was didn’t quite correspond to the map, I wasn’t worried but it took me a few people and many turns before I found my way back to reality. I am not exaggerating, I felt as if I were in another dimension being on a road that wasn’t on the map. It was a good experience because it showed me that being lost is okay.