(Part 2) Best united states atlases & maps according to redditors
We found 64 Reddit comments discussing the best united states atlases & maps. We ranked the 29 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Cars
Photography
Comic Books 1, 2
Apple
LEGO's
American Football
PostSecret
Video Games
Vinyl
Warhol
Outdoors
Star Wars
Motorcycles
The Dark Knight
Paris
Interior Design
World Atlas
Banksy
Wes Anderson
Tribal Cultures
Playboy
Girls
Libraries
The Cosmos
The Beetles
Travel
Preppy
Steve McQueen
The Moon
Yeah I miss Yahoo and Hotmail too, man.
Back in my day, 10MB was nowhere near enough storage, and your account got deleted after a month of inactivity, but we didn't bitch. CSS? Dynamic web pages? Fuck that shit.
Or how about the wicked maps web apps we had back then? Oh wait, you mean this thing? Holy cow, talk about mobile technology! Oh, how I long for the good old days!
tl;dr Google made everything worse.
I usually stop around 3-4:00 PM and figure out where I want to stop that night, then call ahead if I'm getting a hotel room and make a reservation somewhere. You can also read-up on camping on BLM or NFS lands, either campgrounds or remote. State parks also may have campgrounds.
I carry a tire plug kit. This will save you massive amounts of time if you get a flat in a remote area. Watch a few youtube videos if you've never used one and you should be fine.
I also carry a small 12v cigarette-lighter-powered air compressor for reinflating the tire, and a tire pressure gauge because I don't trust the ones on the cheap pumps.
If you are going to travel through remote areas in the west always carry some food and water.
Buy one of those sponges with the nylon netting on the outside or a loofah or one of these. You'll probably want to clean the windshield of dead bugs more often than just when you get gas. Bring a jug of water to assist. Carry an extra jug of wiper fluid.
Research the historical day/night temperatures if you will be traveling in the inter-mountain west. It can actually get quite cold at night if you're camping. Pack appropriate clothing. Monsoon season in the desert southwest can go to early October. Assume you might get rained-on a bit.
Check state DOT websites for conditions ahead at high mountain passes in the Rockies and the Sierras. Some of them start closing due to snow by mid-September.
If you are going to more than two or three national parks buy the annual pass for $80 at the first park you go to. It will pay for itself several times over.
IMHO carrying a bunch of spare parts or tools is overkill but a spare headlamp bulb and a package of assorted zip ties aren't a bad investment. Make sure your brakes are in good condition before you leave if you are driving in mountain areas.
I carry a paper road atlas as I find it useful for longer-distance planning than zooming in/out on an ipad or phone. You can get Rand McNally Road atlasses near the checkouts at a lot of Walmarts.
You'll find that the octane levels of gasoline sold at high altitudes is a few points lower than at sea level. Using 85 octane in a car that usually uses 87 is fine, etc.. Pay attention to the labeling on the pumps elsewhere. At certain places in the Midwest gas stations sell high-ethanol mixes that are inappropriate for non flex-fuel cars. They will still sell the regular stuff, just pay attention to the labels.
Know that this sign means that you can come upon cows standing in the road at any time. Avoid driving these roads at night, or at least keep the speed down and be prepared.
This road atlas, 100' of parachute cord, Utility knife, The clothes on my back.
Beyond that, it all depends on how far I'm going, where I'm going, and the time of year.
Nothing beats a good ol fashioned road atlas.
The only single thing you could get that has that level of detail would be a Rand McNally Road Atlas.
https://www.amazon.ca/Rand-McNally-Large-Scale-Atlas/dp/0528019635/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KFDHE1FAGDETSJ443W3R
An alternative would be to either get the road maps via CAA, or with the National Geographic, Canada Map Pack bundle.
https://www.amazon.com/Canada-Bundle-National-Geographic-Adventure/dp/1597756032/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y154VKFV4T350SCD683Y
Canada is gigantic and a single map would open up from one end of your motorhome to the other.
I'm a hands-on/visual learner, so I personally find lab exams to be easier than written course exams. That being said, I definitely needed to study more than just the Powerpoint notes and lab manual in order to be successful.
My lab assigned this book as a required text, and I found it to be wicked helpful! It has a histology section, and then the rest is all photographs of structures from cadavers.
I have to do a welcome back bulletin board for my residents when I get back to school. Because I'm such a crafty turtle, I'm going to do a board with a map of the United States that has little pins at each resident's home town. Each pin will have a string attached to it, and all the strings will meet at the location of our campus! To do this, I need both map pins and the map.
Great contest! Thank you!
You make it so easy. Let me repost an old comment of mine that covered about 1% of sexism's vast corpus in America alone:
Tip of the iceberg. Since I'm guessing reported sexist experiences by 2xC subscribers won't convince you that it's a problem, I invite you to read the Atlas of Women, a wonderful, illustrated compendium of information about the oppression of women. If you're so confident of the "objective truth", you have nothing to lose by trying it.