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To: Cboldt
I reverted to “old time” navigation methods, which is a little tougher now that gas stations don’t have maps.

Paper maps are available online and in book stores. I'd visit friends and with my $7 map I knew more about their town they they did despite living there for four years.

With GPS, people think Point A and Point B. With a map, they look at everything.

99 posted on 01/24/2022 6:45:09 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits
-- Paper maps are available online and in book stores. --

Often in hotels too. I did the online thing, picking a route. I knew some of the way, but not all of the way.

I sometimes divert from path just because I somewhat enjoy getting lost - even though never really lost, eventually one comes to a familiar or known road or highway.

But to defend my original remark, it used to be a cinch to get to a map when in a strange place. Any gas station, map on the wall. A little harder now that the gas station map on the wall resource is not as common. Just a little harder is all.

105 posted on 01/25/2022 2:18:41 AM PST by Cboldt
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