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bottom (south) side of the map. The idea is to have windows of each seg-

ment of the trip with enough overlap so you can mentally stitch the maps

together (see Figure 1-9).

In this case, I need a third map to capture that important area south of Men-

docino! So I repeat the process of opening a new window to get three

browser windows that, between them, cover the whole trip. In this case, I

right-click on the arrows pointing south to open a new window that

includes Sebastopol (Figure 1-10).

There’s More Than One Way to Get There!

We want to explore the maps to get ideas about what we want to experi-

ence. This is the fun part of the process! First consider your constraints—in

our case, we need to pick up Gene in Eugene—and then look at what is pos-

sible. Eugene is on I-5, so how would we get to 101? Looking at the Oregon

portion of the trip, there are two seemingly reasonable ways to get to High-

way 101 on the coast. We can go directly to Florence, or head down High-

way 5 to Grant’s Pass and then take the little red road to Crescent City in

the extreme northwest corner of California.

Figure 1-8. Oregon from Eugene down

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Figure 1-9. Northern California, ...