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[Messy]

I took a 5 hour course in Cartography at the University of Florida in 1969. That was back in the days when you used Zipatone, and a leRoy lettering set among other tools of the trade back then. It was one of the hardest courses I ever had. I majored in Geography because I thought it would be fun and easy. And it was except for that damned course. The instructor was a real nit picker. The tiniest mistake and you would have to strat all over. I must have spent an average of 40 hours a week on that one course. I think I made a "B" in it. I've got some old copies of my transcript in a box in a closet somewhere but I don't feel like looking for it.

Nowadays it's all done on computer. I wouldn't know the first thing about how to do that.

I studied Physical Geography for 1 year. That guy said I had to stop. My grades were low and he said I'd never make it anyway because you had to be able to talk well. We had to drill soil and taste it, which was fun, but then those 2 annoying guys would come and ask questions like: Where's a river ridge in this area? When it was raining hard and you had to dig all day by hand.

What do I care where that stupid ridge is. There? No that's a 2 meter sand hill hahaha. Apparently answering them well was the only thing that mattered. Not the digging. I did like that though. Actually the only thing I really liked was drawing by hand. We could draw maps for a university study, landscape architecture, by hand with color pencils. Awesome. Just coloring in the evening for your study. Loved it. Not the rest though. So it was smarter to just study cartography.