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Read a Road Map Day
Date When Celebrated: This
holiday is always
April 5
Thinking about going on a road trip? Why not dust
off those old paper road maps and plot a course to get away!?
Nowadays we use a GPS to go from point A to point
B. It has all but completely outmoded the old paper road maps we relied on.
Our GPS has also taken a bite out of the popularity of online road maps like
Mapquest.
Paper maps and online travel maps are not totally
obsolete. They still have a useful function, or they would not exist. You
can find paper maps through state and local travel bureaus, state and local
visitor centers, and at many rest stops along major highways.
Read a Road Map Day encourages us to take a step back in
time perhaps, and discover the value that road maps still have. Our GPS gets
us to our destination in the quickest and shortest manner. But, is your trip
about the destination or the journey? Road maps can help us to identify and
plot routes that makes the journey a really pleasant experience. There is so
much to discover along the way. You can identify small and interesting towns
or historic sites along the way that are passed by on today’s superhighways.
As we researched
Read a Road Map Day, it became
blatantly obvious that something was missing. If you are looking at a road
map it’s likely because you are contemplating a trip. It only makes sense
then, that there should be a “Take a Road Trip Day”. Surprisingly,
there was no such special day. So, we created it!
See
Take a Road Trip Day.
History and Origin of Read a Road Map Day
Our research did not find the creator of this special day, or when it first
began.
There was an occasional reference to this as a “national” day. However,
there is no presidential proclamation or act of congress. We have found a
few websites appear to be adding the “national” tag to some special days
that are not a true national day.
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