Date:         Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:42:48 -0700
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From:         BA <oddstray@ODDSTRAY.COM>
Subject:      Re: Long Trip Report
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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