Travel Map

Memories & Inspiration!

Our travel map 

created 7/12/2012

For those of you that know us, you know Mike and I love adventure in trying new things and traveling.  Even if you don't know us the description of my blog should have given that away.  We have talked for awhile now about creating a travel map for ourselves. My Nana & Papa had on their wall and it inspired me as a child to travel as much as they did and create my own map. The idea behind it is to highlight/showcase where we have lived or traveled and also to remind us to visit new locations.

We finally created it this week and I am very excited by it. You'll want to find a very large map so you can be more specific with where you have been.  (As a New Englander, I have accepted I cannot mark everywhere I have been regardless of the map size)  You'll need a larger than the map cork bord and colored pins.  I have provided links below to the items we bought.

We use ours as follows:

Green - Places Mike has lived

Black - Places I have lived

White - Places we have lived

Red- Places Mike has visited

Yellow - Places I have visited

Blue - places we have traveled to together

As we travel more, places we have been individually, we will change to blue when we have gone with one another  It is fun to see where we have been and how many places we would still like to go.  It's also a nice feature to hang in a family room or den for guests to look at.  Who knows maybe we will inspire someone else to make one.  We look forward to filling our map with colors! Overtime mostly blue and white pins will fill the map :-)

Shopping List

Board

Map

Pins

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