aggienaut | 36 of 45 - Maps (Reply)

   As you may recall, though I haven't mentioned it lately, context is rather the prime directive of this livejournal. The goal is to explain everything in such a way that the context of everything is as comprehensible as possible. This in contrast to many other livejournals that may update five times a day yet leave out crucial details making the tale being woven all but incomprehensible to the reader.

   At times you can only do so much through writing without demonstrating with a diagram of some sort. To show things in geographic context of one another really there is no substitute for a map.
   As such, I have prepared two animated maps of the area of this season's adventures, one of Orange County as a whole and another of South County.

   I think anyone who claims there's nothing to do in OC is a fool. I can drive not more than five minutes east of my house and be in forested riverbed (or 15 minutes north), twenty minutes south to the beach, or west down into the quaint village of Laguna Beach. Or of course hang out at any number of coffee shops, or go to shows in North County, or cause trouble at the Irvine Spectrum, or sneak around the Wild Animal Park... Or if you're into that thing you can even drive two hours into the mountains and go snowboarding or something, if you're into that kind of thing. Seriously it doesn't get better than this.
   Yes there are a lot of obnoxiously rich religious people, but they stay on their side of the river and I have little reason to go over there.
   There's a lot of details on this map. I live at "base camp," about 300 yards from the best restaurant ever.

   One tends to take peices of information that are crucial for understanding context for granted and forget to explain them. For example I just realized that its not clear in either map whats going on in the eastern corner of the county, except that one might surmise its not important because its so easily forgotten. You see, Code de Caza backs up into foothills, there's no way out except across the bridges into Mission Viejo or through the toll road. Basically there are large hills (small mountains?) in the eastern corner that don't have any major roads in them -- the only roadway through at all in the south is the Ortega Highway (see The 74 on upper map) which winds through further to the south. Otherwise you ahve to go over to the North if you for god knows what reason want to go to Riverside County. I'll try to address this aspect of the geography tomorrow maybe.

holy crap we have a flag!