[lettercarrier]

My dad required his kids to change a flat AND read a map before we got the car keys. AAA membership was for maps only. There was great pride in planning our own trips on our own and TripTiks were not for our family because we could do it ourselves.

Map reading skills was the beginning of a love of super-geography (as my professor called it, "the whyfore of where.")

Plus, a map was the first use of different letter sizes, colors, etc.. that I can remember.