[rockfan4]

I will admit I've become somewhat dependent on navigation systems to get around.
The other day my wife found her Garmin and wondered if she should get rid of it. I said no, and now I have a good reason.

Friday we went to see a man about a horse, and not the euphemism. It was a farm near Dodgeville, but out a ways. We even had to drive a gravel road for a bit. Android Auto got us there just fine, brought us right to the driveway. But leaving was another story. Since we were out in the country, there was no phone signal. The phone knew what roads were nearby, but could not calculate a route. I backtracked as best I could, remembering we crossed a major highway about 10 miles back. I missed one turn but eventually got us back to the highway, and I knew enough to know which way to turn to take us to Dodgeville. Once we got closer to town we had a signal again and we were able to navigate. If I had the Garmin in the car, life would have been easier.

Before you stay "use a paper map", I have one in the car, but the wife can't read it, and I was too stubborn to pull over and look at it. We had a similar issue last month, we were driving down the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi on Highway 35, when all of a sudden we ran into a Road Closed sign for road construction. Too far to backtrack to Lansing, we followed the detour until we hit Hwy 61 and continued that way. It made us about 20 minutes late to visit the granddaughter.