Shovel shovel shovel!

Doctors without borders have been good enough to send me a map of the world. I love maps. This particular one is tacked to my office wall directly behind my computer screen which means it is the subject of frequent day dreams .
One of the top distractions is " just so close!" This is when I sit and look at how narrow a strip of land joins two land masses (you know how you are, Panama.) Or how near we are to having a massive inland sea (Gibraltar you spoiler!) And I wonder just how big of a bomb would I need to finish the job, severe that, join here. I look and measure against the features I know the size of.
The second thing I do is try to find the most out of the way island possible. I used to think I had this one all finalized until I started wearing glasses. Where have you been all my life kergulen island! What fascinates me about this game is thinking of just how hard it must be to get to that place. What do people do if you show up unannounced? Are there people there at all? What would I do if I were there? Likely it would be the same things that I do camping on any island in Maine. But I just think that the stone karin I build on kergulen island would be sooooo much better.
The map is also a strange reminder to me that I will never see 99.99% of any of it. And yet I know what the phillipines look like in siloheutte. Like a armchair astronaut.