WOW. Yeah, that's quite a detour you took there... Joe "if you ride by my house you're going the wrong way" Bernard Vallejo, CA.
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 10:30:19 PM UTC-8, Eric Norris wrote: > Monsieur Blériot and I went out for a little ride from Suisun City to > Walnut Creek today—a chance for Msr. B to visit Rivendell HQ for the first > time. > > The ride ended up being about 25 miles longer than planned, primarily > because I trusted the not-very-smart GPS route-finding function of my > Garmin 800 … and partly because I blindly followed it while we went over > hill and dale and assiduously avoided the most direct and logical route. > > See, the shortest way to Walnut Creek from Suisun City is to ride more or > less south, passing through Benicia, Martinez, and Pleasant Hill on the > way. But when I put the address for RBW into my Garmin and hit “navigate,” > it apparently decided that route wasn’t long enough. When we *could* have > continued riding south from Benicia toward Martinez, Garnin instead said, > “Go West!” … and we ended up on a long and hilly route out to Vallejo. > > Somewhere out past Crockett, I finally wised up and stopped using the > Garmin. “I know,” I said to myself, “I’ll use Google Maps!” I had my iPhone > with me, so I again input RBW’s address and went merrily on my way. All was > good … until Google’s algorithms decided that, rather than continue on a > nice, paved road, I should be on an *un*paved trail. I followed > that—hiking up some of the hills—for about a mile before I convinced myself > that the trail was diverging farther and farther into the wilderness and > farther and farther *away* from where I wanted to be. I never claim to be > quick-thinking when on the bike, but eventually I catch on. > > Once I got back to pavement after the dirt sojourn (I was glad I had 42mm > tires!), the rest of the ride was pretty uneventful. I visited both RBW and > the Hatchet Shop, bought a reflective ankle bank to replace the one I lost > a few years ago, got a cool RBW pin and magnet for *free*, and rode home. > Many apologies to my very understanding wife for being home almost two > hours later than i had planned. > > Here’s the route: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/428443841 > > And here are photos: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjQuXyuS > > --Eric Norris > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > Web: www.campyonly.com > Blog: http://campyonlyguy.blogspot.com > Twitter: @CampyOnlyGuy > Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/campyonlyguy > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
