My New Favorite Trail Map Series
Easy-to-use trail maps loaded with info for hikers, mountain bikers and winter users We have every Trails Illustrated map of Colorado and beyond — in many cases, several increasingly comprehensive editions both before and after National Geographic took over publication. When I was putting things together for a trip that started in Steamboat Springs where [...]
Addition & Subtraction in Tourism Promotion
Israel Tourist Authority “claims” extra land that it has; Michigan “forgets” one-third of its state The back page of New Mexico magazine is called “One of Our 50 is Missing,” filled with anecdotes and examples about people (some of them officials of some level of government) who think New Mexico is somehow part of Old [...]
Two Wheeling Through California
Bicycle road racing is a vicarious two-wheel journey. For three weeks every summer, my husband and I take a bicycle tour of France. Thanks to the magic of television, we cruise past fields, vineyards, castles, villages and cities. We struggle up impossibly steep mountain roads in the Alps and the Pyrenees and race down the [...]
Map Misdirections
In the current USA Weekend ‘s “ThinkSmart” section, Everett Potter wrote about on-line maps in a short piece titled “The Best Maps on the Web.” I’ve been ruminating about on-line mapping sites these last couple of days, because one of the big ones steered us wrong — signficantly — on Friday night. We were driving [...]
