I've always been fascinated by maps.
I can sit for hours perusing the maps in my collection while imagining what it would be like to travel through the landscape they represent.

While I've spent a a lot of time using map and compass to navigate the physical world, I'm equally versed in exploring the temporal nature of maps and how they reveal the fourth dimension of time as recorded in the geology of Earths' surface.

I'm particularly drawn to maps of the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States, where sparse cover and wide open spaces make it easier to imagine what the landscape could have looked like as the vast Pleistocene glaciers receded and Paleolithic humans lived alongside the enormous pluvial lakes that once filled the Great Basin.

My love of history, art, and archaeology inform this way of thinking, and send my brain spiraling to consider how ancient people understood their world and navigated their surroundings.

Therein lies some of the fascination of maps...
They can be used to ask questions, test theories, and tell stories in ways that enhance our understanding of our place in history and the world around us while allowing us a glimpse in to many possible futures for life on Earth as we know it.