Travel With Me Tuesday: Goodbye Yorkshire Hello London

I like pages that include maps because in later times looking back on these trips it's always interesting to trace our paths. It was a nice train ride but still it was good to get off, get a coffee and walk to our London rental. Stage 2 of our trip had begun!

Travel With Me Tuesday: Looking Forward to This

This map, found and now sold by Paula Kesselring at The Lily Pad as part of the Life is An Adventure collaboration, is one that shows where we're going on an upcoming trip. Not a current map but the kind of map I love.

Interestingly enough, in doing genealogy, I came across a WWII postcard from a man to his former job in Washington DC. After going down many rabbit holes, I found that the writer had been stationed at Chipping Ongar. I could never find anything about that location and then low and behold, there it was on this map. (top right corner)  Serendipity!

TBT: 1962 Before the Interstates or Beltways

I collect maps and especially like looking at old ones which show the differences in local places. In clearing out old paperwork, I came across this one.

J. Millard Tawes was the Governor and Maryland was commemorating the Centennial of the Civil War. When this map was published, there were those who remembered that war and it was less than 20 years since WWII had ended. Vietnam was a word many of us didn't even know and unless you were Jewish, Israel and the Middle East were unknown areas except for Bible history.

The Governor's message on the back of the map recorded  that 'our state is in the midst of an accelerated program of primary road construction...'.  How our landscape would be changed could not  have been fathomed by those words. From sleepy two lane highways, the Interstates and Beltways would put cars at the center of our lives. The leisurely Sunday drive would soon be a thing of the past. We had no idea what was to come.

Wordless Wednesday: Size is Relative

Makes you think...