Posted on 12/29/2016 9:09:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A New Jersey woman and her 5-year-old great-granddaughter have been found alive in secluded woods in rural Virginia, apparently stranded there for days after disappearing on a holiday road trip, authorities said.
Christmas Vacation!
I always plan my trips online and use a map program to print out the detailed directions/instructions/timeline/route #s/street names and a main overall map along with blow ups of problem/complicated areas.
WAY better than typical “road maps”. I have done this for YEARS. Not a new idea.
If you get lost or end up in the wrong place using this method ..... turn in your drivers license.
I absolutely hate the GPS yammering at me, find it more of a distraction than a help in unfamiliar territory. I guess I’m just too old school, I generally rely on an actual map with GPS for backup.
One of my mom's aunts became increasingly confused after she got into her eighties, but she was an independent cuss and kept driving her big old boat of a car (which handled like an aircraft carrier) until she once set out for a beauty shop just outside of her small Iowa town and ended up finally asking for directions from a state trooper well into Minnesota. Her rambling days came to an end shortly after that trip.
Not too long ago, a woman died about 25 miles from us after her car was hit by a train; it was supposedly all due to a bit of alcohol and a GPS that essentially stuck her in a cul-de-sac that was made all the more confusing by darkness.
Mr. niteowl77
“-——if you miss an entrance to a highway. Even if it’s 10 yards back!! “
Would you actually back up 10 yards on an Interatate? I wouldn’t,even if I was a young whippersnapper like you. :-)
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Maybe :)
On a regular street, definitely.
But I guess that’s not true because I didn’t and this only happened last month.
I’m getting old!! Or worse yet, sensible!!
It will crush my nephews and nieces!!
How are you? :)
The family claims she doesn't have any problems. Hmm, better have her re-evaluated. It takes some kind of stupid to pull off what she did.
Agree with carrying maps. I have a box full of county maps that show every little back road. Made up boxes for the kids when they left home. The first time their cell phones quit working, what then? GPS around here always points you in the direction of water.
You ever see the Chevy Chase movie “Nothing But Trouble”? Shows what happens when you leave the interstate in NJ.
It’s Christmas so egg nog and a bottle of whiskey.
Last summer I took a trip to see family in middle TN. Been travelling there ever since I was born, but hadn’t been in over a dozen years. That being said, I used my memory, even got off I-40 at the right exit. But the road leading down to US-70 changed and I used my GPS. Darn thing turned me onto one of those little country roads, that looped me back to the road I turned off of about a mile further down.
Too many times online maps are wrong.
Haven’t seen that one but my family took a 1974 Ford Galaxy 500 station wagon with a pop up tent trailer in tow with a loaded luggage rack (not grandma) right through the hood in Detroit (the area near the Friendship Bridge) on a hot summer night in the middle of some “tension”. We we insulted, hooted at, and the car patted for 4 blocks. I swore Chevy Chase ripped that Family Vacation scene from us.
I had a GPS 8 years ago. Never again. I love to study a map before I get behind the wheel. I can usually get there faster than the hogs with a ring in their nose being led by the GPS robot voice. GPS is just another dumbing down device.
I think the poor woman has gone senile and that’s why they got lost and she couldn’t figure out who follow her GPS.
I like my gps. It gives me a heads up of which lane to be in and how far I am from my exit. If you look at a map beforehand and then use the gps for guidance it’s great.
Or the safest. One time it sent us into a bad neighborhood.
“How are you? :)”
Great.
A perfect Christmas——and a very Happy New Year to you.
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I am glad and happy New Years to you too!
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