The Map In My Head

Is there a map in your head, where you can instantly picture the route of a road trip you have driven many times in the past? There is in me, I can see it, along with the look of the landscape of every section along the way. I can picture it in my mind, almost like flipping through a photo book. I know this isn't the case for everyone. I have known a lot of people who have a very poor sense of direction, let alone any idea where they are in relation to the country around them.
For me, I can be looking at a map of a portion of the country I have traveled many times before, and see in my mind the lay of the landscape, and the views of most of the country along the way. Here in the western United States, we have a lot of wide open spaces between the few big cities scattered across the country, with many little towns in between. In my many years of driving, I have covered a lot of this country, and some of the highways more times than I can remember. That's a lot of pictures in my memory banks.
In the last few years, I have made many road trips over the same thousand mile route, and It has come to my attention on a recent trip just how well I know the details of the country side along the way. The same must be true for others, but I can't imagine what it is like for those who don't have that map in their head, and the pictures to go with it. They are missing something I put a great value on, and would truly miss if I ever lost it.

A section of Highway 59 between my home in Southern Utah and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.