Maps.....

 “When I was a little chap, I had a passion for maps. At that time there were many blank spaces on earth. But there was one yet, the biggest, the most blank, that I had a hankering after”

This statement by Charles Marlow in the book “Heart of darkness” by Joseph Conrad, struck a cord with me when I was about 12 years old. I have always loved maps, and can spend hours reading an atlas like others will read a novel. My dream as a youth was to travel the world and see those "blank spaces", and perhaps help fill a few in. As a kid I spent countless hours learning how to draw maps the old school way (like Lewis & Clark),or by using cartographers tools. 

Had I know the U.S. Army had a cartography program/MOS I would not have wasted all of my military years in the Infantry. Anyhoo, Grab an atlas sometime and thumb through it, I'm sure you will find something interesting and learn a thing or two.

Tomahawk