[SamAdams76]

Forget about not being in cell phone range, there are growing numbers of people who are in utter fear of being in a car without GPS. I remember in my younger days when my glove compartment was stuffed with Rand McNally maps. The ones that you had to unfold but almost never could fold back together again the same way it was when you bought it.

I found a few of them in my attic a few years ago and I showed them to one of my then teenage sons. From his point of view, I might as well have been unrolling the Dead Sea Scrolls.

[Mollypitcher1]

I taught my children at a very young age to read road maps. On our long summer trips, each would take turns in the passenger seat beside me being my “navigator.” They learned a lot from the experience and still speak of such and such a time when they were “navigating” for me. They have excellent orientation and seldom use GPS.

[libstripper]

“I found a few of them in my attic a few years ago and I showed them to one of my then teenage sons. From his point of view, I might as well have been unrolling the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

And that’s really too bad. Having had GPS ever since it came out, I can say it’s science, not magic, and it’s let me down often enough that I always take a dead tree map along with me on a long trip.