Ever since I read this article on psychogeography map making I've been obsessed with making maps based on on arbitrary factors such as smellscapes, sounds, plant life etcetera in my city. Little field guides if you will
My favorite activity at the moment. So fun to create a town, city, or land mass and imagine the history behind why there are people there and what makes the place function
As a lover of PI.FYI/getting/giving unsolicited recommendations for all things, I recently started sending my google maps pins to people I see traveling to places I've marked a few things. What's better than getting a recco from somebody real and not some dumb watered down sponsored Time Out article about 'Top 5 most instagrammable places in Seoul' etc etc etc. Ew. Here's a list I made while working in London for a month. There is what I like to think a good range from obvious trendy wine bars down to things I stumbled past while ambling around. Plus I think that giving good travel recs gives good travel karma!
Such a nice way to discover and romanticise/appreciate where you live!! Also I discovered with like google my maps you can colour coordinate pins and add photos which is so cute
It is good I feel to keep playful expressions of frustration such as this in my arsenal. Sometimes i'll throw in a ' goodness me!' or a simple ' lord!' does the trick also. Something very Charlie Brown about it
And recording your findings in a little dedicated notebook!
Just went on a quest to find the best way to incorporate thyme into a lemon and blueberry cheesecake, and wrote down my findings in detail . Life is good