The New Colorado Spirits Trail is a Whiskeylicious Excuse to Travel
byGrab a map and a passport. These 52 distilleries are all over the state. By Joshua Berman – First Published in The Denver Post Mar 7, 2018 DENVER…
Fun with Maps
Passport Maps frames your trip route as art
byI discovered PassportMaps.com at just the right time. My book, a travel memoir called Crocodile Love, was nearing completion and I was scrambling to…
Map review in The New York Times
byStylish Maps That Are Chatty By JOSHUA BERMAN In today’s satellite-blanketed world of precise, GPS-determined maps, a splash of watercolor and some hand-written advice are…
“Maps and Mapmakers of the Peace Corps” book and website by RPCV
byFellow map nerd and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) Chris Delcher (El Salvador, 1998-2000) just contacted me about his growing collection of Peace Corps–inspired…
Here there be Dragons: Carta Marina Map Porn
byI stumbled on this delectable nugget while searching for dragon phrases and was immediately sidetracked. It took 12 years for Olaus Magnus to draw…
Map: Where in the World is The Gambia?
byIt’s right here, a splinter of river and river bank surrounded on all sides by Senegal. The Gambia is a Mandinka island within a…
Where in the World is Accra?
byWe are here: Or, for a closer look, here:
Map: Our Tanzania Trail
byDar to Zanzibar, then Moshi to Mwanza (1200 km across the Serengeti), followed by an overnight ferry on the great lake to Bukoba–and the…
Map: Sri Lanka, laying down
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My flat map of Sri Lanka denies the island its normal north-is-up “teardrop†romance, but laying it on its side, it looks like big-headed whale, don’t you think? Colombo the eye, rail tracks the teeth. . .a blunt-headed giant of the sea, swimming south while casually raising its tail to India.