I was just reminded of this over the past week.
As a kid I was a little obsessive about maps. I would constantly be taking the road map book out of the family car and "reading" it in my room for hours at a time. Then forgetting to put it back. Which my mum was never happy about when she was out on the road and became lost or when she needed to find something :blink: .
Even now I love maps, I always want to buy every map I see when I go to a new place.
My map reading skills are almost as good as my innate directional skills are bad. So it kind of balances out - as long as I have a map at hand.
It is funny because my son has just turned 5 and he loves maps. He can't really read them properly yet, but we were in Bangkok for the last 10 days (just got back last night) and he was constantly picking up maps at the skytrain stations and poring over them. Asking me to show him where various things were on the maps, figuring out how to fold and unfold them properly, asking me to explain what the map meant.
With some of his traits I can't really tell if they are his as such, or whether he is just trying to be like me. But that is another story.
As a kid I was a little obsessive about maps. I would constantly be taking the road map book out of the family car and "reading" it in my room for hours at a time. Then forgetting to put it back. Which my mum was never happy about when she was out on the road and became lost or when she needed to find something :blink: .
Even now I love maps, I always want to buy every map I see when I go to a new place.
My map reading skills are almost as good as my innate directional skills are bad. So it kind of balances out - as long as I have a map at hand.
It is funny because my son has just turned 5 and he loves maps. He can't really read them properly yet, but we were in Bangkok for the last 10 days (just got back last night) and he was constantly picking up maps at the skytrain stations and poring over them. Asking me to show him where various things were on the maps, figuring out how to fold and unfold them properly, asking me to explain what the map meant.
With some of his traits I can't really tell if they are his as such, or whether he is just trying to be like me. But that is another story.