When I went off to college in 2001 my grandad bought me a map of Baton Rouge in a gas station on the drive there. Mapquest wasn’t a thing yet, or at any rate I didn’t yet have access to it. I knew how to read maps because he’d taught me while I was growing up. We had taken trips down to southern Louisiana to buy dogs, sell raccoons (don’t ask), and visit Avery Island, and he’d taught me about the different kinds of roads, what symbols represented the different types of highways, and how to estimate distances. Even when I delivered pizza in 2002, you still had a big map inside the restaurant where you’d look up where you were going and how to get there and memorize the turns. I’m only rambling about this because I’m watching a movie set in the 90s and the characters are using paper maps to get around the US by car and it got me thinking about just how much mapping software, smartphones, and global GPS changed everything. Knowing how to read a map - paper or digital - is still important, though. You gotta know how to get around.