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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 09/19/2018 at 18:34 • Filed to: None

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If you’re friendly with any local haunts, encourage them to put something like this on the wall. Pretty cool to see a pin on Nome fucking Alaska, or handwritten notes from Guam and South Korea.

RallyWrench > Just Jeepin' 09/19/2018 at 18:46

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These are cool. GoWesty is near me, they’ve got pins from all over the world. 

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Just Jeepin' 09/19/2018 at 18:52

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It’s simple but significant.

When you go about your day, everyone may just appear to be from somewhere nearby but it’s not always clear that they may have come from thousands of miles away.

I liked the way one bar in Shibuya did it (and I even remember another bar in my city that does this): people write notes on small bills of their home currency and tape it to the wall. This bar had every inch of the wall covered with bills from all over the world - it (along with the alcohol) makes you happy to be in a world with so many places to see and experience.

Other times, the world seems small - another small bar in Shinjuku I ran into other fans that were in the country for the Japanese GP. Johnny Herbert even came to the bar with a small Sky posse.

Anyways, this is all to say that I agree.

Just Jeepin' > gin-san - shitpost specialist 09/19/2018 at 18:55

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I love that idea.

I regret never attending the US GP while it was still held in Indy. I don’t have much interest in racing but rubbing elbows with the world is pretty cool.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Just Jeepin' 09/19/2018 at 19:03

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For her birthday, I took my daughter and a bunch of her friends to an escape room in New Orleans. They had a visitor pin map on the wall. I thought it was neat, so I took a few pics.

I was surprised at the number of foreign visitors. New Orleans is more popular than I realized.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Just Jeepin' 09/19/2018 at 19:08

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If the opportunity to go to an F1 GP comes up, try it out. Even if you don’t have nice seats (I had GA tickets at Suzuka) the experience is really cool, even if the race is somewhat uninteresting. That said, I am biased by the fact that none of my friends are F1 fans and it was so cool to be around so many people that were.

Matt Nichelson > Just Jeepin' 09/19/2018 at 19:31

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The Lane Museum in Nashville has a map like this. I think it’s cool to see where all people have come from. Something else that is neat is what they do for Cruisin’ The Coast. Basically it is a week long car show that has several venues along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At the main sign-in venue they have a map s howing where all the people who have signed their vehicles up for the event have come from. Last year over 8,000 different classic vehicles attended .

DipodomysDeserti > Just Jeepin' 09/19/2018 at 19:48

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Damn, it looks like you had a visitor from Kykotsmovi Village, AZ. That’s pretty obscure. Nome, AK, has 5x the population of that dusty little town.

xsnowpig > Just Jeepin' 09/20/2018 at 08:21

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i like this much more than the concept that Google, FB, and the NSA already have much more detailed maps of our travels. now excuse me, my tin foil hat is loose.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Just Jeepin' 09/20/2018 at 13:06

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It is super interesting when places do this. During our honeymoon, my wife and I were at this tiny f ondue restaurant in Paris that we’d been to before and love (at one time was seen as a local favorite and always packed but got a lot of tourist attention and now is kind of an odd mix with some tourists and some locals ). Well, there are small denomination bills pinned all over the walls and ceilings. This particular night we were there early (by European dinner time standards) and the only patrons in the place. They seated us and I looked at some of the bills on the wall next to me. Low and behold, I saw this

As a lifelong Alabama fan, I can’t tell you how much this pleased me. Point being, it’s fun to see the other peoples notes or whatever, but it’s especially fun to unexpectedly see something you relate to, especially in a random place.