Our final project of the semester was a collaborative one that took its final form as an ArcGIS story map. After considering various forms of walking, the consensus was that most of it is task-driven: rushing to class or some other Point B from our current Point A. Even our exercise is fit-bitted and measured. So the projects turned to the question of what we find along the way, hidden in plain sight, and the strange history of treasure maps came up. Usually we associate them with pirates’ booty or other monetary riches. But isn’t there also a fascination with some mysterious map that tells you how to get there? Perhaps there’s an overlap here with nature writing in this close attention to the important details surrounding us. Click here to read “How to Get There: A Collection of Treasure Maps.”