b_s-wilk > Ask PEOPLE. They can be very helpful, to the point of giving > excellent directions and special details, sometimes inviting > you to join them. Besides, many maps and guides are available > at local businesses, where you can also talk to people. > People are much better local sources than a GPS. They'll also > lend your their phone books, which have maps, restaurants, > gas stations, accommodations. Some will also make phone > calls for you or lend you their phone. [even in big cities]
Good idea, sometimes hard to do. Example, went to Va. Beach to walk in the sand. I get directions to my sisters house, take a left on this road, make a right on Second street to Pacific Avenue, stay on this road, it changes names a half dozen times but eventually it winds up at ...someplace. We get in the car, make a right turn instead of left and see Pacific (oops, that was an hour earlier, I drove out the way I came in) dead ahead. Oh, there's Pacific, hang a left and start driving. I'm driving, my wife says shouldn't we take 64? Why? We're on Pacific, etc. Insists, I have her call my sister who says "Yes, take 64, drive for 10 miles, take exit this and that and left and right, etc." We end up lost. No fun!! > Want to find a good restaurant? First, ask locals for > suggestions. Then ask what THEIR favorite restaurant is. > You'll almost always get a different answer, and better > food. You betcha. > People power! What's your GPS' favorite > restaurant/advertiser? Yup, if available, not so much at 11PM. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly My reality check just bounced ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
