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There are many useful things that anyone can do with a map. I save the ones that I use on trips as souvenirs. They tell a story about where I went and what I saw. My Europe map has coffee stains on it and there are notes next to town and cities that I visited. Italy has the best coffee so I drank a lot of it while I was there. I really enjoyed my trip and I hope to go again. But my map serves as the best memento from that trip.

Another useful thing to do with maps is to hang them on your walls. I live in Arizona and my Arizona map is framed and behind the sofa in the den. I have not lived here for too long so I like to look at it and see where I have not been. There is a lot to do in this state. We have the Grand Canyon and the Meteor Crater to name a couple. This state is amazing and I want to see every inch of it.

And obviously I live in the United States so I keep several US maps in my car. That way, I can find my way to wherever I need to go. So, the final thing that I suggest people do with their maps is to use them. They have all of the major cities and most towns on them. The cartographers that design them really know what they are doing. There is just the right amount of information on them. Geographical features are present and so are the highways and interstates.

The functions of maps are limitless and they serve multiple purposes for me. I hope that you’ll start to see maps in the same light as me and use them forever.

I love to collect maps from my travels and use them in my classroom. I have a lot of maps from all over the world. But there are a few places that I would like to go to but can’t because we’re at war with them or our countries are not friends.

I guess that I’ll have to buy a maps of Afghanistan since I won’t be able to travel over there for a long time. I think that the countries seems so interesting and I bet it’s much safer now than it was before. I wonder what their food is like and if I would like it.

I also want to go to Cuba but I can’t. Maybe now that Fidel Castro has resigned, democracy will be introduced and we’ll be able to go there. Who knows? Maybe not. But I would like to have a few maps of Cuba for my classes.

I know that I’ve been to several countries in South America but I’ve only been to them for a few days so I would like to spend a summer traveling from Brazil to Chile and everywhere else. Then I’ll add South American maps. Not that I don’t have maps of all of these places–I just like to have the ones from my travels. It makes it more personal.

I am going to Rome, Italy, this year for the Liberty League convention. I always have so much fun when I go. I’ve been to Africa with Liberty League Int too! I remember we made that trip into an extended vacation. We went on an African safari and I saw wild alligators and giraffes. Not at the same time, but it was all very cool.

What I’m looking forward to the most this year is turning the trip for the convention into a European vacation. There’s more on the web about Liberty League Intl. They’ve changed my life for the better. I love everything I do with them and I love the way I get inspired whenever I go to hear them speak. They know just how to get me excited. I love life so much when I leave.

But what I think I’ll like best about this year’s event is when I go and see the Vatican. I also plan on going to Paris for a weekend. It should be beautiful and so much fun. I think we’ll use it as a second honeymoon.

My favorite vacation destination has to be Las Vegas.   I know I’m one of many that feel this way.  I love the glitz, the excitement and the energy  of the strip.  I try to go there at least a couple of times a year.

Apart from the casinos and the nightlife I really love the Las Vegas shows.  There is such a variety and there is always a new show to see.  In the past I have found it really hard to get my hands on Las Vegas shows tickets when I am in town.   I have now found a better way.  I order my tickets online before I leave home.  That way I have less stress and more time when I get there.

On my last trip I took got XBurlesque tickets and An Evening with Dean and Friends tickets ordered before I left.  It was really easy.  And the shows were great.  It took away from the stress of finding tickets when I got there and meant that I had more time to just relax and have fun in Las Vegas.  I certainly will be getting my tickets in this way in the future!

I was going through an old box of my grandfather’s and I found several maps. There are cities circled on them so I figured he must have traveled to those places. there was a map of Italy that had Rome circled. He also wrote "1952," the year he went there I suppose. I asked my mother about the maps and if he went to the places circled but she didn’t know.

What I found most interesting was that he had several maps of China. It’s unusual for someone to get to go there at all, but to go there several times is really rare. The numbers on those maps are 1948, 1962 and 1977. I was alive then but I don’t remember him every going anywhere. He must have had so much fun traveling all of the world.

Of all the maps I found, I think I would like to use the map of Spain. I’ve always wanted to go there since my mother was born there. I think that seeing Madrid, which Granddad apparently visited in 1952, would be wonderful. Since soccer is so huge there I’d like to catch a game of two also.