We just got a new toy, a Garmin RV 760 GPS.<\/p>\n
The way we used to do it is Mom would watch a netbook running Delorme \u00a0mapping\/GPS software and tell me where to go. Sometimes we’d tell each other where to go when we missed turn. I realize she can’t help it that she’s navigationally-disabled, but geez!<\/p>\n
So we got this new super-whizzer new toy. \u00a0Now a machine tells me where to go so Mom can concentrate on telling me what to do when I get there.<\/p>\n
Anyway…first tryout.<\/p>\n
The bitch (GPS)\u00a0 told me to turn on Greybeard \u00a0Lane or some such foolishness. There’s an informal Big Rock Road because there’s a big rock beside it. Then it mentioned a Lois Lane. I’m definitely a Superman but there’s no Lois Lane around these parts. I realized by looking at the map that it was trying to direct us out to a road by recommending the steepest, narrowest and twistiest way out of the park, not really even suitable for a Jeep.<\/p>\n
So, out to the road. She then informed me that I should turn right on Stovall Road. OK, right on Stovall is a two-lane dirt track that eventually crosses a small _covered bridge_ before coming out on Hwy. 255. _Left_ on Stovall is a nice paved two-lane road that connects to Hwy. 384 and then to Hwy. 255. Why the bitch wanted me to go out of the way down a dirt road is beyond me.<\/p>\n
She did say that all these roads were not known to be suitable for RV travel. Whod’a thunk.<\/p>\n
Once we got out into civilization the gizmo did well, telling me about turns well in advance and nagging me about speed limits.<\/p>\n
It has voice-command capability, which I haven’t tried. I have misgivings; she’ll probably want to have meaningful conversations or at the most inopportune moment will say “We need to talk.”<\/p>\n
Brave new world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We just got a new toy, a Garmin RV 760 GPS. The way we used to do it is Mom would watch a netbook running Delorme \u00a0mapping\/GPS software and tell me where to go. Sometimes we’d tell each other where to go when we missed turn. I realize she can’t help it that she’s navigationally-disabled, but geez! So we got this new super-whizzer new toy. \u00a0Now a machine tells me where to go so Mom can concentrate on telling me what to do when I get there. Anyway…first tryout. The bitch (GPS)\u00a0 told me to turn on Greybeard \u00a0Lane or<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugawetribe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}