Category Archives: Geography

Geography on the Road

Posted:
Aug
29
2008

My parents encouraged us to read the road map for them when we were on vacation. My mother, who loves history and English, would quiz us on how to spell the names of rivers, cities, states and other landmarks. Yes, we visited every Civil War battleground and antebellum mansion in the southeast. Trips took longer because we stopped to read the historical markers! My engineer/scientist/inventor father would show us how to compute driving time to More to read…