To GPS or not to GPS
The GPS is fine but take a decent map. It's not just losing the signal (which happens everyplace including in our home driveway); it is the GPS being programmed incorrectly. I think of the peoples' driveway we ended up in three times last spring in France, and being sent to the wrong address in our own town this past week. There are programming mistakes because all of this is input by humans and humans make typos. There is the famous case of a couple last winter lost in a blizzard because their GPS was programmed incorrectly and they survived by eating some energy bars they had taken along. The local joke is, "don't forget the energy bars" when someone says they are using their GPS. We are never sorry to have our map long. It is particularly important when you don't speak the language because way out in the boonies, people may have a second language but it may not be English . . . or...
