Why This Blog?

I already have the sparsely-updated Maps in Pixels at mapsinpixels.blogspot.com - why another blog? Well, because I felt that I needed one.
I wanted to make Maps in Pixels about GIS, geographic information science. I wanted to blog incessantly about the Google Maps API and how navigational software is kickin' rad, so to speak. Lately I've found my interests veering away from that, to a "softer" appreciation of geography. At least, that's what I find myself more inspired to write about.
This is a place where I hope to picture and write about places I've been, places I've never been but only heard of, places that once were and places that will be. Places like cobblestone roads with trolley tracks, peeking from underneath cracked tarmac. I want to give love to the little things we pass by every day, or not nearly enough, that form part of the landscape. Micro-geography, if you will. And I want to share the minutae of the landscape with you.