I’ve got four nice National Geographic map cases full of city maps, foreign country maps, and those wonderful National Geo maps that used to come with periodic issues of the magazine. But no one looks at paper maps or nautical charts anymore. Everything is online or on someone’s phone, and GPS satellites are ready to guide the dimmest of travelers from one spot to another. 

So, I’m giving up most of my map cases. I’m keeping one case for some of the old local maps I collected from Pretoria, Moscow, Lyon, Riga, Kruger National Park, Cairo, and a CIA-produced map of Egypt. National Geo still sells the map cases, but I need to create some space in my office. So, things have to go. Maybe a visitor to the Rose Hill Free Library will find these cases and take them home. I hope so.

“Without geography, you’re nowhere!” Jimmy Buffett