I usually get a new Rand-McNally US road atlas every couple years just to have. When we DO travel, I always have the "route less traveled" memorized by using one and have a far better trip because of it. Get to see all kinds of neat stuff on the backroads that you'd NEVER see on the interstates. When my wife used to travel for work before we were married, I'd accompany her on most trips. I'd grab a paper map and pour all over it to know my way around. Always amazed my wife that (coupled with my Magellan-like sense of navigation) : (1) I always knew where we were, (2) knew how to get wherever we needed to go, and (3) never got lost. I learned Las Vegas in a morning and went all kinds of neat places by that afternoon just by having read the map. Ah, the good ole days.