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Saw a road atlas in the gas station yesterday and decided to thumb through it.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:06 am
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:06 am
I forgot these things existed. HOLY CRAP. hard to believe i used to use these on a regular basis.
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Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:06 am to CAD703X
I used to read them like books growing up
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:07 am to CAD703X
I have maps of Texas, Louisiana, and most of the rest of the south in all of our vehicles. You never know when you might need them.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:07 am to CAD703X
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:08 am to The Boat
They made the time pass while on family road trips
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:09 am to MikeD
Yep,
Still grab a state map whenever we stop at the border. The kids love to dive in them
Still grab a state map whenever we stop at the border. The kids love to dive in them
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:10 am to CAD703X
My dad used to travel a lot throughout the gulf coast so he always had the maps in his glove compartment. I used to constantly look at these things when I got bored in the car.
Probably why I'm so good at reading maps today.
Probably why I'm so good at reading maps today.
This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 10:11 am
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:10 am to CAD703X
We had one growing up that is an incredible history of our travels.
My Mom color coordinated our annual summer road trips routes with highlighters. She even did a little color legend for each year in the front. She eventually had to start using 2 colors on top of each other or using crayons.
I would love to look at that atlas now to see all the places we traveled through that I have no memory.
My Mom color coordinated our annual summer road trips routes with highlighters. She even did a little color legend for each year in the front. She eventually had to start using 2 colors on top of each other or using crayons.
I would love to look at that atlas now to see all the places we traveled through that I have no memory.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:12 am to CAD703X
I still pick up every single paper map for free at AAA every year just because why not
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:12 am to CAD703X
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:13 am to CAD703X
Back in the floods in 2016 in Baton Rouge when AT&T was down I had to break out a map and I felt like Magellan 
I drove through rural Indiana and Illinois this weekend and I'm always amazed at just how many paved roads there are tbh. Pretty neat just to think of it on a larger scale.
I drove through rural Indiana and Illinois this weekend and I'm always amazed at just how many paved roads there are tbh. Pretty neat just to think of it on a larger scale.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:14 am to SPEEDY
I don't respect a man that can't read a map, or more importantly, fold one up properly.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:14 am to CAD703X
quote:
I forgot these things existed. HOLY CRAP. hard to believe i used to use these on a regular basis.
I used to keep one in my car at all times. Probably need to start doing that again.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:15 am to MikeD
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They made the time pass while on family road trips
Yep, I basically looked it non stop from Wisconsin to Florida. Still a map nerd today. I go into random Google earth rabbit holes all the time.
Also remember stopping by the AAA office to pick up a triptik when we were headed somewhere new
And while my mom and sisters slept I help keep my dad awake by having him guess the populations of nearby cities or the mileage from one city to another
This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 10:19 am
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:16 am to MikeD
We gained a great deal of true perspective by moving and tracking it in real-time on a paper map. It is to our collective decrement that we all watch the world rotate and move around us on a tiny screen.
A loved-one, who will go unnamed, cannot follow her map if it is zoomed out and north is fixed
A loved-one, who will go unnamed, cannot follow her map if it is zoomed out and north is fixed
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:20 am to CAD703X
My wife and I were talking about when we grew up, this is all there was. We remember taking road trips and both planning and executing them with nothing but these. We both committed that when our kids are 12-15 we are going to take a 10-12 hour road trip to somewhere that neither my wife nor I have ever been to, plan it only with these maps, make our kids participate, then lock our phones away when we leave.
They will experience this.
They will experience this.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:21 am to The Boat
quote:
I used to read them like books growing up
Same. I love a good map.
Nowadays, I regularly go down Google maps rabbit holes.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:23 am to CAD703X
One of the most exciting parts about road trips growing up was getting to stop at state welcome centers and loading up on fricking maps.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:29 am to CAD703X
Anybody remember the spiral-bound books?
Thomas Guides were a local icon in Southern California for decades, one that lived in almost every backseat or glove compartment.
Thomas Guides were a local icon in Southern California for decades, one that lived in almost every backseat or glove compartment.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:30 am to paperwasp
quote:key maps.
Anybody remember the spiral-bound books?
used those for years too.
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