Doing it old school without GPS.

Before your GPS went down was you still using the Atlas?

 

Old way still works...always will....some folks think it's out-dated/antiquated/out-of-style/dinosaur tech/......til the power goes out....

 

Hey Tony, sure is refreshing to hear this. I always used the "road bible" and it worked just fine. Before I left for a destination, I'd look it up on the atlas, write the route down, so I wouldn't have to look while driving, and and lo and behold, I made it. Trouble is, people that use those GPS deals, don't know of any other way. On a vacation to Fla. a while back, god child of a friend was with us and insisted on bringing her GPS. I was driving, and knew a shortcut to an attraction, and her GPS kept freaking out. "Error, error, recalculating". Finally, I turned around and said, "Will you shut that darn thing off"!

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;3992870]Hey Tony, sure is refreshing to hear this. I always used the "road bible" and it worked just fine. Before I left for a destination, I'd look it up on the atlas, write the route down, so I wouldn't have to look while driving, and and lo and behold, I made it. Trouble is, people that use those GPS deals, don't know of any other way. On a vacation to Fla. a while back, god child of a friend was with us and insisted on bringing her GPS. I was driving, and knew a shortcut to an attraction, and her GPS kept freaking out. "Error, error, recalculating". Finally, I turned around and said, "Will you shut that darn thing off"![/QUOTE]

That's a good one there.....I've got a Garmin , my wife got it for me as a "gag gift".....they do have their usefulness , I imagine. But if I'm gonna be taking a trip that I've never been on before , or going into an un-familiar area...the RandMcNally still goes with me.

 

They also don't always give you the quickest or best route. I live in Milwaukee, right off of Hy. 41, and I see a lot of truckers going down 41 to get up north, right through town, with a bunch of stoplights. I'm sure their GPS recognizes 41 as the best way, but a quick look at a map, would show, 94 W to bypass 45 N, and it joins up with 41 on the north side of town. No stops.

 

You can get a truck GPS. Keep the book for back-up.

You can put both in your car when their not in the truck.

When I started driving, I had never used a GPS before. It worked pretty darn good tho.

Personally, I can't read a map and watch the road at the same time.

 

My GPS is the ex-wife model. It never tells you the way to go but is real quick to remind you of all the wrong turns you have made since the beginning of time.

 

Hi droflex, that's true, but you talk distracted driving, I've seen many people staring at their GPS, and not looking where they are going, when a little pre-trip planning, like the old days, is all that's required. Matter of fact, that's another thing. Try and find a map at a gas station nowadays. On a recent trip to L.A., that place is so big, I had to find a map, just to get my perspective as to where I was. It took 3 gas stations before I found a map, a Shell, I believe, and they were $6 bucks, and covered with dust. Remember they used to GIVE maps away?