Finally saw a real hand-drawn map on a community board instead of a printed flyer

I was walking through the co-op downtown last Tuesday and noticed this bulletin board near the bulk bins. Usually it's just the same old band posters and lost cat flyers printed on cheap paper. But someone had pinned up a hand drawn map of the local hiking trails with little notes about which ones were muddy after rain. It was on graph paper with pencil and had this worn look like they'd been updating it for months. The details were crazy specific like "watch for loose rocks after the third bridge" and "best wild blackberries are 20 feet past the big oak." I stood there reading it for like 5 minutes. It just felt so much more real than those glossy printed trail maps from the visitor center. Has anyone else noticed that handwritten stuff on boards gets way more attention than printed things or is that just me?

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johnson.adam13d ago

Did you take a photo of it?

derek_burns13d ago

Kinda doubt anyone was stopping and staring at a graph paper map for 5 minutes but ok. Its a map dude, not a museum exhibit.