I have love of maps too starting at age 6 when my parents & I would travel up to Colorado Spring/Manitou Springs every summer(in an un-airconditioned car) to get away from the summer heat. I would spend hours navigating for my dad when I got bored asking: "are we there yet?"PUCKER wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:50 pm I'm a huge fan of maps....use to spend hours looking at Atlases / road maps, etc....to answer the eternal question (well, at least for me, when I was a kid...) of "Where does the road end?" Topo maps are very cool as well! I still like looking at Google Maps and the like....seeing where things go....
The learning experience served me well in later life when I wound up at Camp Eagle at Ft.Sill. I was the only one in my training battalion that scored 100 on the night map reading/land navigation exercise. (still don't see how I did it. I think someone made a mistake on grading) .
In the 70's when I was doing the gun show circuit in the area, I fell in love with the availability of WWII USAAF escape and evasion cloth maps so I started collecting them. Over the years I've accumulated all but 4 or 5 maps printed by the Army Map Service issued during WWII, and the maps issued by the U.S Navy for their pilots. I think I have ALL the maps issued during the cold war. Truly a labor of love. I don't look at them as much as I used to. It's a shame as they just sit in the garage in the air tight storage bin.
