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Around town, I never use a GPS device at all, unless I am going to a place I have never been, or the address is cryptic.

I have my phone to use the Australian accent. It is funny to hear her pronounce some of the Indian names of roads. Pottawatomie road is not even close to right in her accent.

And yes, I like the voice directions.

In Boca Raton, we were returning from a tour, trying to get to the hotel. The road was closed with some emergency water leak. My GPS kept routing us to the same closed road. My brother used his phone to find a different way, and I used my phone as well. All of sudden we had three women giving us directions, and non were the same! At one intersection we has one say turn left, one turn right, and the other go straight. My brother and I were laughing about it. Three women, and all of them were wrong!
All led to other closed roads.

I could see the hotel off in the distance, so we drove by dead reckoning, just like the pioneers!
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