The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: maps

  • The Maps Are Full of Shadows

    The Maps Are Full of Shadows

    If we no longer believe in dragons, we’ll conjure them up ourselves.

  • Exploring DC: The Library of Congress

    Exploring DC: The Library of Congress

    I have always been in awe of the very concept of this building.

  • Maps

    I could look at maps for hours.

  • Another Non-Existent Island

    This island was first seen in a romance novel.

  • My Love/Hate Relationship with GPS Girl

    She lead me across the country and she helps me find my way around this new befuddling city of mine, so I’m really extremely dependent upon the voice that comes out of my GPS. I’m truly grateful for all she does for me. But there are also times when I want to slap her silly.…

  • Fantasy Island

    I just got through reading an article on the NPR website entitled, “Pacific Island, Bigger Than Manhattan, Vanishes.” I assumed it was going to be about global warming, and that maybe it had sunk below the rising sea level, but no. Based upon studies of the sea floor, this island never existed in the first…