Road Trip! Staying on Track While on the Road Mountain Home AR

Posted by : Matt Lake

It's true, and I confess it freely and without reservation. I cannot navigate while I'm driving. I cannot navigate in the passenger seat either. In fact, if it weren't for little old ladies taking my arm and crossing me over the road, I'd probably never make it home from the mailbox. My family tells a story I wish I could call an exaggeration about the time I decided to walk around Golden Gate Park. I had just moved into an apartment literally half a block away from the largest body of vegetation in the entire Bay Area, yet I found myself up a hill a mile away, looking down on the trees and scratching my head. If I were a swallow, Capistrano would be a distant half-memory from my youth, never to be relived.

But I travel to many different places on a weekly basis, and this makes my navigational disability a serious disadvantage. And it makes me a very aggravated driver. Mapquest and Yahoo Maps do help--their occasional misdirections notwithstanding--but spreading printouts across the steering wheel is downright lethal on the turnpike, and when I take a wrong turn or miss one completely, I'm hosed. And I average about three missed or wrong turns per trip.

Think globally, drive locally

Thank heavens, then, for the global positioning system. I know it costs billions to keep those twenty-some satellites in orbit around the earth, beaming their radio signals to the earth. I know that the GPS receivers and laptop software I've been using co...

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