reading a map

Just a little add-on...... stop at the state's Welcome Center. They quite often have detailed maps of their cities that are much better than any atlas ones (usually RM oddly enough) and they're free.

As a matter of fact, if you note the Texas map in your atlas, it has so much orange highlite as to be almost unreadable. The Texas Welcome Centers have much better ones.... also free.

 

But I like running on the grey roads!

Matches my hair!!!!

 

Kids? My wife is 52 and has no idea where the states are situated on a map.

 

Why should she....you're the driver!

 

My current co-driver is 59 and can't read a map to save his life. I don't understand it.

 

Tell him to turn it right side up....it's easier to make out the squiggly lines!

 

Some exits do, some don't in CA. There seems to be no logic as to which ones do or don't. The call boxes on the side of the road have the mile on them but it's so tiny it's nearly impossible to read driving by.

Another small thing I like to do with my map is get these tiny circle shaped stickers that have a surface like a post it note and write the toll prices on them. They're pretty small so they don't block roads you want to see. If you have a laminated map you can easily remove them and replace it when the tolls change.

 

CA has some weird form of mileage marking I haven't figured out yet. Maybe by county? Those mm don't conform to the actual mileage. Also, the Rand McNally GPS shows a different mm than what it should be.

 

I'd have to get him to open one up first...

 

That is NOT a good thing to do. Most people will look with a shocked expression at a grownup that can't read a map. You still need to actually learn it though.