Date:         Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:51:52 -0700
Reply-To:     Marc Sayer <marcsayer@HUGHES.NET>
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From:         Marc Sayer <marcsayer@HUGHES.NET>
Subject:      Re: GPS Recommendation
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Gee and here I thought the point of a GPS was to get where you need to
go without spending a lot of time exploring.  :-D   I use a GPS to get
somewhere. I don't need maps or GPS to pull a Lewis & Clark, just some
free time a tank of gas, and my emergency kit (food, water, warm
clothes, you know, the stuff you need when you get lost in the wilds for
a few days). OTOH, it's been so long since I've had time to do any
"splorin" that I don't even know where that emergency kit is anymore.

> Even if I decided I wanted a GPS for travel, I would still use maps, which are much more fun.  I've never seen a GPS that caused me to wonder about the source of the toponyms I encountered, or caused me to peruse sections of terrain just for the hell of it, and eventually to travel over them though I hadn't planned to.  Using a GPS, I would never have known of the existence of Dirty Woman Creek, Drunkard's Branch, the twin towns of Frog and Frognot, or Bug Tussle, Texas and Bug Tussle, Oklahoma.
>
> Surely you GPS users also have and use maps.  Otherwise, what is life for?
>

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Marc Sayer
Journalist, Photographer, Dog Trainer (APDT member #062956)
Board member - Western States Great Dane Rescue Association
Director of Operations & Training - Deaf Dane Rescue Inc.
Oakridge, OR USA

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