The GPS is a wonderful piece of technology, but like everything else in life, you have to keep your brain in gear at all times. An educated mind regarding the area is what is really needed to make the best use of the GPS. Of course, it is when you do not know the area that you most need the GPS. When we were in Jackson, Miss. along with our rental car came a GPS. We had no map with us, nor was there a map in the car. Ken put the hotel address into the GPS, and we started out. All went well until we came to a place in the road with a barrier across the road. We could see the other side of the road, but we could not get there from where we were. We tried three times to follow the directions, assuming we had missed a turn or two. Finally we had to look up the sheet of paper with directions given to us from the hotel so we arrived safely. But we learned our lesson, to always have a map in the car, along with the GPS.
Tonight we went to our friend Phyllis and Fred's house, and just for fun Ken plugged their address into our GPS. Their directions would have us go onto the Belt and up 270 to Montrose, back to Seven Locks Road down to Fontaine, then their house. The trouble with that route is that the time was 5:45 and the Belt and 270 were jammed with traffic, so it would have taken us an hour to get there. Coming home, Ken realized that he has two Homes in the system, so the directions were sending us heading north rather than towards our home. Now we know that a map must accompany every journey, and that the GPS works best with an educated mind. But it really is a wonderful piece of technology, despite it's drawbacks.
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