I really miss maps. Like, not the objects themselves, I could just buy some nice maps if I wanted to today, but I miss the feeling of exploration you got from navigating using one. You’d have to pay attention to your surroundings, get lost and found again a bunch of times, etc. Totally inefficient but it was adventure. By the time I got to adulthood and could really do my own trips we started getting GPS and all that jazz and it’s just not the same making it to an unknown destination anymore.
I’ve done stuff like this finding a specific friends house in some small towns. “Okay they’re on suchandsuch street, lets try to find it!” then “okay I found suchandsuch street, now lets figure out where their house number is”
Meanwhile my parents will blindly follow the GPS onto closed roads and old logging trails
I really miss maps. Like, not the objects themselves, I could just buy some nice maps if I wanted to today, but I miss the feeling of exploration you got from navigating using one. You’d have to pay attention to your surroundings, get lost and found again a bunch of times, etc. Totally inefficient but it was adventure. By the time I got to adulthood and could really do my own trips we started getting GPS and all that jazz and it’s just not the same making it to an unknown destination anymore.
I feel like you’d enjoy orienteering as a hobby (assuming you also like the woods).
Doing an old school car trip with your location turned off on your phone could be cool too, assuming no impatient passengers.
I’ve done stuff like this finding a specific friends house in some small towns. “Okay they’re on suchandsuch street, lets try to find it!” then “okay I found suchandsuch street, now lets figure out where their house number is”
Meanwhile my parents will blindly follow the GPS onto closed roads and old logging trails