I was into the Civil War for many years, and traveled to most of the battlefields. I had planned to visit Atlanta to see the Cyclorama & Civil War Museum. Its original location was on Peach Tree something or other. Back then there was no such thing as GPS, so I relied on AAA triptiks to travel. I got off an exit to look for the street or road I needed, and the traffic was so obnoxious that I got right back on an exit ramp, and headed out of town. I’d driven in Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City without GPS, without any problems, but trying to find my way around a city where every other street or road was named Peach Tree, I gave up.
“trying to find my way around a city where every other street or road was named Peach Tree”
Much like Mulholland in SoCal.
I traveled for almost 40 years in the wholesale hardware distribution industry, in various capacities. At one point I covered 11 states. I never had a GPS.
But the places that are the hardest to navigate are where you have rivers and or streams and you have residential neighborhoods scattered in it.
Ft. Smith AR is one of those places. Only the locals can make it work.
Then there are those forgotten roads in Western Kansas where you can drive forever on dirt roads without a road sign, and no towns on the map.