Recent interest in Cartography by laity and professionals has increased worldwide helped, in part, by the ubiquitous and easy online tools such as Google Maps & Google Earth. My interest in cartography, and mapping in general, are both explanatory and political; using maps to explain personal history, such as the above maps charting the time zones of professional projects I have worked on in the given years, begins to add legitimacy and power to my history, transferring maps inherent authority to my life story. Mapping also serves as a historical record of travel to be shared with friends and family. The below image was created to illustrate my three week business trip to Asia and Australia given to my family so they would know my location. The original installation was a web page which was updated with location information and photos of my travels uploaded to different web services such as Flickr.