8 by 10 colored glossies with circles and arrows and a paragraph of the back of each one...

[neadods]

Photocopied maps with highlighter and handwritten notes make me happy. They make me happy before I go because they're full of sparkling hope and wonder and curiosity, and they make me happy when I get back because they're memories.

I did it first for the Scott Cohen fanclub trip to NYC. I did it again for M's & my Christmas trip to NY.

Right now I'm looking at a mismatched frankenmap taped together from printouts at two different scales, but it's still making me VERY happy. Because the handwritten notes on the bottom go:

1 - Hotel
2 - Howells (filmed as Hendricks, Rose. Opens at 10. Food, clothing, luggage)
...
5 - New theater (Panto @ 7. Also where Unquiet Dead theater scenes filmed)
6 - National Museum (open 10-5, Impressionists)
7 - Queen's Arcade (auton attack filmed)

The playground that got graffitied in "BAD WOLF"s turns out to be in a bad neighborhood and many of the Torchwood sites turn out to be too far away from where I'll be to get to in a day (in a choice of touring film sights and shopping, I'm shopping!) but... geek heaven.

seti_drd, I've made you a copy. Ask me when we meet up.

Cardiff was the easy map; only one day there. Now for the biggie - marking up the London map! Man, I was under 10 last time I had *this* much fun with highlighters and colored pens!

For those who've made it this far and are thinkging STOP BRAGGING, DAMNIT, something completely different: a worksafe-ish (he does say "hell" a couple of times): Classical music standup geek humor on youtube. Put all drinkables far, FAR from the screen!

Comments

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

marking up the London map! Man, I was under 10 last time I had *this* much fun with highlighters and colored pens!

I love doing that kind of thing when I go on trips - though I imagine your map is more organized than mine. I can never find my highlighters and it all ends up scribbled but it's always one of my favorite trip souvenirs

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting at my desk at the moment, so all my tools are at hand. Including the scary stack of London books to leaf through and what is, in retrospect, a really crap map. Still, I think I can make it work with judicious use of the internet.

Totally different subject, but humor right up your alley - Classical music standup geek humor on youtube.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

oh my god. I think I pulled a muscle from laughing so hard. that is the best. He's so so very spot on as well as being hilarious

[jennetj.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the drinkables warning on the video; I managed to avoid snorting Diet Coke up my nose, but it was a close-run thing. Brilliant!

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Technically, it's "8 by 10 color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one."

Just sayin'. *grin*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

So tell me, oh editor, is a bronx cheer spelled "pbpbpbpbt" or "pbbbbbt"? :D

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Either spelling is acceptable. *cheeky grin*

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

For those of us who are isanely jealous living vicariously through you..don't stop! We want to hear every detail...with pictures..and maybe highlighted maps.

;)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Don't tempt me, I have a scanner and I'm not afraid to use it! :D

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

And now for something completely different:

a yarn sale...

*grin*

Hey, my brain had to be somewhere other than Cardiff, right?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oy... a lot of that is very tempting, but my money can't be too many other places other than Cardiff!

[nnwest.livejournal.com]

Nothing really to add, but the subject line caught my eye. I *just* put that song back on my iPod last night. :)

Anyway, have an excellent trip. I wish I were going!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Making me a copy of a Map of Geekness is the nicest thing someone ever did for me in fandom :)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I didn't mark all the stores I plan on hitting, nor the museum - but definately all the Torchwood/Doctor Who places! And I hadn't realized that the theater was a twofer - the place of the panto and a filming location.