On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:24:14 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Edward, > >Yes, it sounds like you had a lovely time! I feel very fortunate that I >didn't damage anything on Mellow Yellow trying to force it along the 4WD >road that my GPS took me on. ApolloGeese for it being not yet Fryeday ... The story I've heard that forever makes me question any GPS unit is the full-sized tour bus. With many tourists and only one bathroom. That got stuck for many, many hours on a small one-lane road, surrounded by hedgerows, somewhere in Britain ... because the driver was obeying his GPS unit instead of his common sense.
(... and also there's the *true* tale of the schoolkids' field trip that wound up somewhere in who-the-firk-knows-where-we-are instead of at the V&A Museum in the middle of London. Again, because the driver was obeying his GPS unit instead of his common sense ...)
B&S who, despite being techno-geeks, *know* how paper maps work! (sheesh!) '87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc' SoCal |
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