Woody Leslie has an answer for you.

He is a writer, illustrator, and one of the most creative media makers I’ve ever met. I chatted with Woody in late April at the Brooklyn Zine Fest, a venue for small, independent individuals to showcase their self-published work. Woody gives us a window into his world and a sneak peek into his spoken word album he has coming out later next month. Here’s Woody:

Courier’s Text Atlas of The United States of America started as what I thought would be just an exercise in my twin interests of geography and typography: to type every state 100% geographically accurate using only its name repeated again and again, following strict rules of left-to-right text conventions. As a thematic exhaustive exercise, it seemed like a fun way to spend some time with each state’s geography, get more familiar with Microsoft Word for typesetting and pass the 10 hour train...

The reason?

Of the thirty zip codes nationwide possessing the most bars per square mile (with at least ten bars), over half are in New York City.

The zip code with the most bars per square mile in the entire U.S.? That would be 10012, my old zip code before moving to Brooklyn. There are 125 bars per square mile, with 40 drinking establishments spread out over an area of 0.32 square miles

However, New York does not hold the title for most bars in a single zip code. The holder of that title is the “Live Music Capital of the World”, Austin Texas.

Time for a new moniker, Austin. The U.S. census records 105 drinking establishments in 78701, the most in any single zip code nationwide.

As some of you might know from visiting Austin, this covers East Sixth Street.

Yelp reveals 37 bars on the half-mile stretch of land between North Congress Avenue and the...

I’ve joined my college friends four times in the last four years for an annual adventure trip:

August 2013 - 67.7°N 153.3°W

Hiking in Alaska’s remote Gates of the Arctic National Park

September 2012 - 16.5°N 88.3°W

Sea kayaking 18 miles from the coast of Belize

March 2011 - 39.4°N 106.1°W

Snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

March 2010 - 6.6°N, 83.6°W

Three day jungle hike in Costa Rica

We all met in school in New York.

September 2006 - May 2010 - 40.81°N 73.96°W

Plotting these four places, plus New York, on a map:

I was curious to know:

which locations in North America are furthest from the places we’ve already traveled?

I drew two giant rectangles covering the rest of the world to create a zone to exclude from my analysis – one rectangle covered all space east of the mid-Atlantic, ending at the western edge of Alaska; the other rectangle...