Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Maps


Here's one for Mike...

Mike and I joke because he has a rather interesting and cute obsession with maps. I find him sitting on the couch often studying the inlets, inroads, in-and-outs of any map he can het his hands on. The result? Well, I know one thing. We can lead you anywhere you want to go when you get here. Heck, want directions on your visitation route? Mike could provide those as well.

I shouldn't joke. He is the one that helps get me out of my sticky driving situations when I am lost in the back roads of my own neighborhood. I'm the gal who drives an hour out of the way on a "hunch" that I might be headed in the right direction, only to find that I'm not at all. I would also argue however that it is good to get lost a little every now and again.

Since a week after we arrived Mike has had the entire Northwest figured out for what it is topographically. Yes, he's an engineer and not a maker of maps. Thank goodness for those with photographic memory and a good sense of direction. As for the others of us...we must fend for ourselves, stuck in the quagmire of north-south-east-west-ness!

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