Today's image is borrowed from the University of Texas in Austin and is a map of central Africa, circa 1885. It's the setting for my current post in my Reading section, Alan Moorehead's "The White Nile." (See that link for more description on the book.)
The book has given me a strong desire to trudge across Africa exactly where the Equator girdles the continent, despite various warlords and skull crunching hyenas. Thanks to Mt. Kilimanjaro there is everything to see from snow to desert, with all the in between. I think you need to get a gazillion shots and spend a poodles ransom, but it's still something I'd like to do in the next few years. The odds that I can make it a honeymoon…1,000,000,000 to 1. That means there is a chance.
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I used to be a voracious reader, but have fallen off a bit in the last few months due to work, the Internet, and Tivo. Currently, I'm trying to get back to it. I hate dog-eared pages and I can seldom find a bookmark, so I like to play a little memory game and try and remember the page I was on from reading to reading. It is fun, but I must say I'm really bad at it unless I was on page 47.