I felt like I was in a time warp....
 

I felt like I was in a time warp yesterday. I was at a gas station at an interchange on I-75 just north of Ocala FL. The snowbirds are beginning their winter migration to the Sunshine State. There was a steady stream of RV's headed south. As I was standing next to the pumps, a couple of retirement age pull up and stopped. The women gets out of the car and she has a piece of paper, a pen and a map in her hands. You remember what maps look like, right? It was all folded over and marked up. She actually asked me for directions. What? No GPS, No smart phone app? No MapQuest printout?

I didn't get thier names but I think they may have been Fred and Wilma Rubble from the stone age.

But think.. if they had all that modern stuff, you would never have met them!

Was it a jump to the left and then a step to your right?

LOL! Still no GPS here....But then my travel patterns are usually on familiar roadways...just haven't seen the need to buy one.

I couldn't survive with a map, without GPS. No way, no how. I don't know how we used to get by. Oh that's right, we were always lost and asking for directions, LOL.

nope....that's ocala for you......the armpit of florida.......

I don't have GPS and drove up to Rennsport without a map. Well, I had one but never used it. I actually shut it off when I am driving my wife's van. None in any of my cars or trucks. I am not that old, younger then most here I an thinking. We use to remember where we were going by driving the road ways. Now, no one know how to get around any more without the big screen tv on the dash.

I must live in a time warp. I don't have a GPS. If I don't know where something is located, I look at a map and travel by direction. If it's something like a complicated residential location, I take the map with me. My wife has a GPS on her smart phone, and I have to admit it works pretty well. There's a little voice that tells how far away a feature is and what to do when you get there. Two times recently when her GPS gave erroneous directions and another time when it just didn't seem to have the data, I was the one who got us there. She likes to listen to it, but I tell her to turn the volume down. I don't like to depend too much on electronic gadgets.

I have a gps. Never use it. Occassionally I will look at the map on my phone, but I prefer a paper map.


Guess its my scout training. I prefer a map

You are just old fart before you get old. Repeat after me, Get off my lawn. You will thinking that before you know it.

I am far from an old fart. Just prefer maps

If the military ever sees the need to shut down the civilian navigation satellites, there's going to be a bunch of lost people in this land.

Let's see, the sun rises in the west, and the North star is the biggest one in Orion's belt....what's a compass, anyway? :rolleyes:

leeeeeeet's doooo the tiiimmeee warrrp agaaaa...

hmm... probably some things it's better to not know about me....:D

It's the app on the iPhone between the clock and the camera. ;)

I like "old school" navigation too, FWIW. It's doubly scary how dependent new pilots are getting on GPS and moving map displays. I shut the thing off in a guy's airplane during a BFR a few years ago and told him, "ok take me to XXX" and he looked at me like I was crazy. "That isn't realistic! It's never going to fail like that! It's got redundancy!"

Fail.

No GPS here either. I actually like the old maps and I like to ask directions.

I am funny that way (too).

I am a bit of a gadget nut but haven't tried a GPS I'd trust to navigate for me.

If I am going to a new destination, I will usually have a look at on-line maps and maybe even consider the directions, but when traveling, I rely on a good map and a not-so-bad sense of direction.

Plus I have learned to ask before I am hopelessly lost. ;)

Biggest kick for me was last summer while visiting Yorkshire, walking along a tiny country by-way when a car stops and the young lad ask for directions to the nearest petrol station. I was able to give directions and off he went.

You know you're fuch-ed up when you have to ask directions from a tourist!

Les

I just moved into an outside sales role at work and my territory covers an area of Chicagoland that I am not very familiar with. As a result, I broke down and bought a gps as I can't really afford to waste time moving between appointments.

As much as I dislike using the thing, it is extremely convenient. It takes all the thought out. You can just go. I'm trying very hard to continue relying on mapping trips via google maps on my phone when not traveling for work as I do not like the idea of becoming fully dependent on gps.

Sounding like a true Ohio transplant.

No GPS nor smartphone for me--just a good old Rand McNalley Road Atlas, and a flip-phone with actual buttons.

Can't believe how mnay people don't know how to read a map.

oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN

I have a GPS that I use for long road trips only. I only fire it up for my long trips.

Just last weekend my co-worked drove to Sacramento California. One of the instructions is continue on I-40 for 1,213 miles then trun right onto I-15.

They are great for getting through a big city on the interstate because it will let you know what lane to be in for the interchanges. It also reroutes me if there is traffic ahead.