I should also add that I've been a big geology nut my whole life - this area in particular. My Dad was a well driller in the lower Columbia region and I was always going along gathering my own "core samples," ...etc. Kid scientist shit, but I never outgrew it.

But the map really does make it all pop out; state lines are and political maps are so much less interesting.

I have this desire to touch it -- perhaps printed on a 20" x 20" aluminum sheet? Yeah probably.

Oh man... this is Amazing. I live in the Tri-Cities. Absolutely a suburb around nothing and pretty isolated feeling.

But I can see on this map that I am actually right in the middle of an amazing system.