The floor at Minnesota Science Museum is appliqued with a massive map of the world. Shot from a satellite, and showing relative size and position of all the earth's dominion, this vinyl Mercator is pretty impressive.
It's not clear, however, which nations are which. No sovereign names overlay the land mass. So when a new friend and I remark on the size of Cuba, or remember that Hispaniola comprises Haiti to the west and Dominican Republic across the mountains, we can be pretty confident of our facts.
But since the map is the floor, and shoes take the place of laser pointers, the toe of a pair of Keen's tends to settle questions of geography.
Think: toe dancing the Dominican Republic, somewhere to the northeast of Jamaica.
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