I am not good with maps. Ask any of my friends how I fare with a typical FPS and they’d laugh; it’s not that I’m not good with aim nor is it that I am not good with reaction. My Achilles’ heel is my inability to read a map: I would stupidly meander myself into an enemy or into enemy territory despite the little red dots blinking furiously on my radar map. (The only exception to this are the HALO level maps “Blood Gulch” and “Beaver Creek”.)
My usual method of familiarizing myself with my surrounds is to get lost and to ask for directions. (When this happens I like to tell myself that this forces me to speak Japanese and getting lost is just a great example of studying Japanese.) When I decided to take a small trip to Hamamatsu Castle, I was not surprised that I got lost on the way. The evidence of my foolishness: