my dad retired from trucking in october of 2007 -- when he did, he no longer had a use for the heaps and heaps of road maps he used while on the road.
so i got them :)
one weekend with a straight ruler, some bookboard, a lot of glue, and some fancy book papers, and i had them all cut and bound into a 12x12 book with something around 200 pages.
i kind of dithered about what to do with the book ... part of me wanted to fill the book with an homage to peregrinations, journeys, travels -- use it as a treasure map type meditation.
and then i started thinking about the huge backlog of photos/trips that i have piling up and awaiting placement in a scrapbook and just decided to use the book to map a section of my life: missoula post-acceptance into the journalism school (fall of 2005) through ... well, at the rate it's filling up, the end of this year (2008).
so here it is, a map of my 20s: every piece contains a map of the whole.
