[ale] [WAY THE HELL OFF TOPIC] -- but accurate

[Paul Cartwright]

On 08/18/2014 09:11 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> My car has built in GPS but I was using MapQuest long before that.  I still print MapQuest maps before major road trips but use the GPS primarily - it is interesting to see the different routes they sometimes pick.
>
> As to the other question doesn't anyone fly:   It's all about the journey not the destination.
>
> I take a major road trip every year.   It is interesting to see the way the landscape changes and often you'll find things you'd never have known were there if you flew over it all.
>
> At this point I've driven to all 49 continental US states and all 10 Canadian provinces (plus the Yukon territory).
>
> I couldn't figure out how to drive to Hawaii so did actually fly there.  :-)
I used to install software, and I flew out of Hartsfield usually twice a
month, for 3 years.. yeah, I've had enough flying. But I only got to 14
different states, a few multiple times ( Thank you Florida !!), and
Cedar Rapids in January..
Born in California, drove up & down the coast, moved to Maryland, drove
up & down the coast.. all those states in the middle?? nah, not so much.
& when I flew, I took my garmin, put in the airport, hotel & office that
I was going to, before I left, also googled restaurants (
micro-breweries:-0)...
 what sucked was flying in to central Minnesota, via Cleveland & Detroit
( I can't remember, but there were 2 connections) and getting into town
about 9:30 on a sunday night... can you say locked up & everything
closed?? and I was HUNGRY!!!! GPS wouldn't have helped. and yes I
usually printed up maps, just to give me an idea where I was going,
unless I had been there before..
we no longer travel with laptops, just our phones & tablets. For ME (
old eyes) I like my tablet for email & web browsing.

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Paul Cartwright
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