[Rockingham]

I think that you and your husband are contrary to common experience. My late father had a keen memory and a remarkable sense of direction and location. He had been an officer in the merchant marine and, even in his nineties, could use a sextant to determine a precise position based on the sun.

My mother is still with us in her mid nineties and no longer drives. She can give directions quite well in relative terms, but, as ever, she is poor at compass directions or distances.

[Jamestown1630]

I think our situation has something to do with where we grew up and learned to drive - I in a very congested urban/suburban environment, and he in a rural area where there were a lot of big, long roads and not as densely populated and built-up.

He really hates driving here, and even after more than 30 years that hasn’t changed. For me, it’s all I’ve known.