Ashley is The Map For those who have ever seen, or have children who watched Dora the Explorer, one set of anthropomorphized characters stand out among the rest. The one that I have in mind is The Map, whose wisdom exceeds everyone with respect to spatial awareness, who holds knowledge of locations and directions to places he never visited, and an adeptness at communicating the information available to him clearly and coherently. The Map is the perfect navigator, an indispensable companion to anyone on the road. Now, The Map is a fictional character, but his most notable characteristic lies within a very real person in my life. That person so happens to be my younger sister, Ashley Bhagwandeen. Ashley, the perfect navigator, displays an unchallenged awareness of her surroundings, a seemingly endless vault of knowledge about every location you can think of and everything in between, and the ability to dumb all of her knowledge down so people who cannot even navigate their own house effectively can understand …show more content…
For instance, “The beaches here are made of white sand, its crushed coral, so it will be cool to touch no matter how hot it gets.” “Cancun actually comes from a Mayan word that means ‘Nest of Serpents’, but do not be afraid as the majority of the snakes you will find here are not venomous.” When we got to Nassau, Bahamas the situation was the same. “Legends have it that Blackbeard called this city his home.” “These waters are so bright and clear that they can be seen from space against the dark color of the ocean.” And those are only some of the many tidbits of info in her arsenal, which only adds to the full experience of a city we got thanks to her making our itinerary. The itinerary even included brief moments dedicated to questions, as if we were expected to ask questions, she always knew we would, I’ll that cover