make a map!

I thought I’d publish out some of my bike rides as maps. The simplest map I can conjure up just to document my ride for the day.

I had a great breakfast of Pomba and Granola Yoghurt with a double espresso. Yeah! I broke my coffee fast. I don’t crave for it. The day is overcast with showers here and there. Either way, the bike ride was good and the sun peeked through the clouds a bit. Drizzled on me on my way back.

The Blue line was my ride to my destinations. The Orange broken lines was my ride going back home.

~Merci!

I think I lost that map… oh well time to make a new one. I’m lost myself anyway. Please find me!

I like hauling rolled maps with me on a trip. I had 4 just to get to Klamath. Then the innkeeper gave me a couple more to show me all the hikes and trails available in the Redwoods. Cool!

Point A to Point B with a lot of stops in between. Isn’t that what life is all about? It may not also be the shortest distance or a straight line. I’d take the long and less travelled route, that is where the adventure is. For now, I am in between those two points mentioned at 4am PST.

Thanks for the input people!

Ever played a computer game where one controls an avatar character by walking him through a terrain? While walking, places appear in the distance or vanish as one moves on. This gives a person a choice of destination and the places you’ve been to are mapped out behind as history.

Think this way but replace locations with ideas. For example, I watch a movie called ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, it’s about the crusades, Jerusalem, Islam, Christians, Jews, will of God etc. Think of those subjects as avenues. I personally got interested in Islam (of course, with what’s happening in Iraq and all the jihad thing). So that’s the road I’m on. Then I was lead to a connecting road to Spain and the crossroad is the ‘Islamic Spain in history’.

So many roads and it’s interesting to map out a person’s preferences. Thanks for the reference to Utne, might check that out. Cool thing about this is trying to recall the roads you’ve been on since birth or at least the earliest you recall making choices.

To map out my thoughts, values, desires, principles, experiences in a graphic kind of way would be a challenge.

Instead of places or roads to destinations, it would be paths to discovering and knowing myself in the context of my convictions in life.

It’s interesting to see how that map will turn out.

What brought this up? I saw an ad on craigslist for a Cartographer. Since it’s easy to make a map of a place, a challenge would be a map of ‘self’.

Don’t you think so?