Using roads really helps for me. I might be missing a couple from when I was a lot younger, but nowadays when I go far enough that it’s a new place it’ll stick out in my head. I’ll sometimes look before or after what counties I’ll be in just cause I have fun visualizing the trip or seeing how it adds to where I’ve been
I have a map down to the township (6×6mile divisions inside counties), but im not sure that i want to post it
It’s just for my state, and we canoe every summer for multiple weeks. On our drives, I sit with an atlas. I’ve memorized every single highway number, where it goes and everything in my states.
So, when I started my list I could think back and record where I had been, and now it is just being added to as I travel more.