maps

so i should, at some point, inform you of my great love of maps. i really do love them. one of my favorite things to do on any given lazy afternoon is to sit down with the road atlas and just look at it. follow roads through the mountains. imagine how the landscape might fold in a particular area. create an image of the beaches around an island in the middle of a lake. think about how the bright ball of fire might look, as you're driving into it, across a desolate highway. discovering all those places, that from a map can be anything you might imagine. i feel like an explorer looking at maps. maybe noone has been through this area, maybe it's filled with a great forest, maybe i'd see a moose just troddign along the road. maps make everythign so vast, so accesible, and yet so... for lack of a better phrse, mapped out. i have a brand-spanking new map of colorado to hang on my office wall. greg sent it to me. yay!