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Mapping your "journey"
Yes, very cool, Nicola, if I can echo Kristen!
okay so i'm a little CRAZY and i'm super excited about this mapping idea. i'm doing the 52 thing, but i also dreamed up this dumb idea of trying to read about capital cities of the world in alphabetical order (26 books). except i have to choose a non-capital for X. some of this will overlap with 52 (if i can pull it off--i don't want to read mind-numbingly boring books just for the sake of "visiting" 26 capital cities) and this mapping thing will be incredibly fun!
Totally cool! I was just thinking it would be nifty to have some sort of visual to mark where I have "been". Thanks for the links! I will probably be reading in a really random (and undisciplined) order so will most likely lurch all over the map like a drunken sailor :-)Marieke, may I recommend a book on Xanadu for your capital cities tour? Or do they have to be real places? I think watching the Olivia Newton John movie could probably also count in a pinch.
I will also be a drunken sailor...with hidden alphabetization.Hmmmm...Xanadu sounds like a good idea. Can I map it?
Wendy, I'm taking the drunken sailor approach too, but will have fun using the maps anyhow!
Omigosh! Love Love Love this! Thanks, Nicola, this will be a great help and fun too.
I think we should all write drunken sailor blog posts about our literary travels.
Louise wrote: "http://www.travellerspoint.com/member... did mine :-)"Your route made me laugh out loud - like a big scribble on the globe, fabulous.
Is it possible to map it as we go? Or make changes?
Marieke wrote: "Is it possible to map it as we go? Or make changes?"That's what I was wondering as I'm not really one that sticks to itinerary plans! :D
Marieke, do we just play drunk?
Yes, play drunk and make drunken changes. With parrots. I will put a bird on it.I'm pretty excited about this tool. I think I will practice by making a record of the Tour d'Afrique we've been doing at Great African Reads for the past two-ish years.
If only I didn't have to go to work this morning!
Don't go Marieke, it's raining. I will write you a note.
Marieke wrote: "Is it possible to map it as we go? Or make changes?"You can map it as you go, change a route part way through (if you decide to read another book from a different country) you can add notes to each place as you visit and the website also lets you look at photos of the country/cities as you go!
Mikki wrote: "Don't go Marieke, it's raining. I will write you a note."Thanks, Mikki. You're the best.
Excellent, Nicola! I'm very excited to give it a try! And since Mikki kindly wrote me a note to excuse me from work today.............
Nicola wrote: "Louise wrote: "http://www.travellerspoint.com/member... did mine :-)"Your route made me laugh out loud - like a big scribble on the globe, fabulous."
I was getting dizzy following her routes. Major carbon footprint.
I'm also going to make large carbon footprints. I decided to make a separate map for my capital cities tour. And I totally included Xanadu. Who cares if it's a former capital?? Haha.It's scribbly: http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
Ok, I am trying NOT to do the drunken sailor thing, and actually added a book to make a long leg into two shorter ones. I'm pretty sure I'm nuts. Here's the map of the 53 stops on my reading tour for 2012 (and I'm going to try to go in order, but might deviate if there's a group read).http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
Beth wrote: "Ok, I am trying NOT to do the drunken sailor thing, and actually added a book to make a long leg into two shorter ones. I'm pretty sure I'm nuts. Here's the map of the 53 stops on my reading tour f..."ooo yours is pretty! and if you minimize it way down, it's really pretty, like a garland of some sort across the globe. :D
This site, bookdrum, has over 150 books dotted on a map of Google Earth. It's pretty cool. You click on a red pin and you get info and the city and the book.Google earth:http://www.bookdrum.com/maps.html
Very interesting--book drum-- Anne. I'm particularly interested in their multi-faceted profile of Proust's "Swann's Way". A terrific resource.
Asmah wrote: "Very interesting--book drum-- Anne. I'm particularly interested in their multi-faceted profile of Proust's "Swann's Way". A terrific resource."I haven't seen the Proust bit yet. I've been busy circling the globe. There are a lot of interesting things on that site.
I am so glad I found this group. I am almost finished putting together my book list. Doing the traveler's map thing is fascinating -- I want to do it, too (assuming I can figure out how to make it work. My son says my age is why I have trouble with technology. I love him anyway!)I spend so much time reading books I have to for research, sometimes I forget to branch out. This group and challenge is a marvelous way to do that.
Anne wrote: "This site, bookdrum, has over 150 books dotted on a map of Google Earth. It's pretty cool. You click on a red pin and you get info and the city and the book.Google earth:http://www.bookdrum.c..."
It's so nice. But we can add about a 100 more books in there. :)
Okay, I'm sho-world, http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
I'm starting with Lesotho: Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman.
I'm starting with Lesotho: Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman.
Here are most of my books :-)
I've arranged them in a pile + a window sill, boy I'm going to get busy reading next year...
Nicola wrote: "I was looking at using Google Earth's Trip facility to record where I go to on my journey. Found it a bit difficult to use but then I found TravellersPoint which is free and lets you draw a route a..."Wow, that's a great idea! I might do this!
This is such a great idea. I might do it with a blog. I find I am so tired of reading constantly these days. :/
I love seeing all the covers! I'm going to copy this! Of course, if you have a shelf with them all, you can do this with GoodReads widgets too, but the tangible books feel more special.
Paras wrote: "This is such a great idea. I might do it with a blog. I find I am so tired of reading constantly these days. :/"Oooh, I like the idea of blogging my journey.
Louise wrote: "Here are most of my books :-)
I've arranged them in a pile + a window sill, boy I'm going to get busy reading next year..."
YAY! Another collection. Great job Louise!
I wound up reading something else first. Is there a way to delete a point on the Travellerspoint map?
Sho wrote: "I wound up reading something else first. Is there a way to delete a point on the Travellerspoint map?"Yes. You can either right click on the place you want to delete and then delete it. Or you can insert a new point before it and that way you get to keep your original choice in the list.
Very cool tool. My Mom, sisters, friends and I (six of us so far) decided to follow the same route but we may choose different books as we go.Here's our route. http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
This is such a brilliant idea! I'm going to follow the popular drunken sailor route too. For company, I've decided to adopt an imaginary turquoise parrot with a magenta beak (it's imaginary - so I get to pick its colours) called Jean-Michel Robespierre. He is 'mon chouchou' when he is good, and 'Jean-Michel' when he starts to behave like his revolutionary namesake and needs to be threatened with the guillotine. Now, I shall go and map my journey based on the availability of 'Old Monk' at each port.
I want to go reading as I please, choosing destinations as go along. This is making me confused as to how should I go with the map. Can I choose to update as I go along? :/
Am going to do Read-As-You-Please. So I might be in Spain one week and Peru the next, Bostwana the next ... :)
And you can add to the map as you go.
I started a Travelerspoint map with the places I've already been for this challenge and my route looks like a whale. It's very cool!http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
I'm just going to add destinations as I go along and makes changes if necessary (book, country)--no real itinerary going on here!http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
Judy wrote:"Here's wishing you many days of "mon chouchou". :-)"Me and "mon chouchou" say merci. :-D We've started our journey too and mapped some of it already.
I have no itinerary either. I know that I'm starting in England. After that I'll travel based on my mood or group reads.http://www.travellerspoint.com/member...
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