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I drive my wife nuts by driving within a few miles of our final destination before firing up the GPS.?ÿ I've explained the Interstate numbering system and that if you know the basic geography between your starting point and your destination no map is needed but it makes her a little crazy.
This is not unexpected. Men and women have characteristically different of navigating from place to place.
Men have a strong tendency to go toward a target by an overall direction and distance.
Women have a strong tendency to go by waypoints.
This was valuable a long time ago when hunter-gathers were the norm. The men followed a wounded prey to somewhere they had never been and everyone benefitted when they knew the clan was about so far in a certain direction. Women would have stayed closer to the camp with children and searched for food like berries and roots and everyone benefitted if they remembered the not-quite-ripe fruit was just by the large tree near the creek.
Your driving tendency is by general direction and once you get close you ask the GPS to go by waypoints and your wife is comforted. If going to someplace you've been before or several times and she says, "you missed your turn back there," turn around and go back. She is very likely correct.
JAC
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Learning either method isn't automatic.?ÿ My wife's daughter had made the trip to and from her grandmother's house at least 50 times since she was old enough she could be aware of landmarks or road designations.?ÿ The first time she drove it, she sailed right past the only interstate-to-interstate turn required without noticing it or looking for it.
I contrast this with my nephew, who knew how where to turn in the capital city, an hour drive from home, when he was about 7 or 8 years old.?ÿ It depends on what you are inclined to or taught to put attention on.
Men know there is more than one way to skin a cat.?ÿ Your goal location is on a road.?ÿ You are on a road.?ÿ Eventually your road will connect with the goal road.?ÿ You may have to turn around a time or two but that's what makes driving an adventure.?ÿ Seeing the same old same old all the time is for dull people with no imagination.
Many times at the end of the day I will explore alternate routes from the job site to home.?ÿ You can see some of the dangdest things that way.?ÿ And for beer drinkers it helps find the time to finish the first half of that suitcase while it's still cold.
Mentioning that mile markers get bigger going East or North and reset at state lines would have been worthwhile.
Pacing while driving by counting the lane skips can be handy for monument recon, watching the house numbers for finding the vacated roadway is another basic finding the site technique. I worked for a place once that sent me out to tie a section corner and seemed a little shocked that I wanted more than the Thomas guide that was already in the truck.
I miss the days of making a copy of the relevant Thomas guide pages at the office and highlighting a route to the site, doing it that way would help you learn about the area. I think relying on GPS makes the mind dull on navigation and intentionally leave it off sometimes, somehow this often seems to end with a traffic snarl.
I wish there were more route options such as "do not make me take two left turns across traffic and then drive through some residential plat to save two minutes" or scenic and safety options; in the end though I think that Google maps and directions are evolving to be like Search where the end goal is not to help you but to sell you things or collect your data for profit.
You usually only really need it for the "last mile."
Now I'm going to look for the leading zero when I drive on Interstate 4.
Andy
Interstate 4
Not me, Buddy, I'll drive 20 miles outta the way just to stay OFF I-4. ?????ÿ
First, you must consider the source of the error and remember that gummy bears for breakfast are his favorite.
@flga-2-2 What would be your choice to get from Land of Lakes to Daytona?
Andy
That was a great video! Thank you for posting it.?ÿ
Google goes nuts inside the roadblocks at a big fire, it??s only useful as a map.
My choice for the 25 hour, 1700+ mile journey would involve multiple interstates and passing through Minneapolis and Nashville.
@flga-2-2 What would be your choice to get from Land of Lakes to Daytona?
Andy
From LOL?ÿ take Doyle Road to SR 415 (Osteen - Skips Boots n' Shoes on the SW corner)
Left on 415
North on 415 (15 mi. or so, you will come to SR 44 and a traffic light - New Smyrna Speedway at NW corner of intersection)
Continue North on SR 415, which is also called Tomoka Farms Rd.
You will approach 17-92 (DIS Blvd.)
Before the 17-92 intersection is Bellevue Ave. Turn right on Bellevue, get in the left lane and turn Left on Williamson Blvd.
Buddy, yer on yer own from there.
You can street view all of the above on Google. (good luck with that, they ain??t ever been there during Speedweeks) ?????ÿ
So, starting at the north side of Lake Monroe, eh?
I hope so. I'm 249d11mi away (bird route) ?????ÿ
@flga-2-2?ÿ
"I'm 249d11mi away"
On a houseboat or at the Florida United Methodist Childcare Facility?
Too much Spanish moss to see anything clearly.
Just having fun.
It's kinda hidden under the Confederate Oaks moss canopy in the general vicinity you mentioned. It is a private facility not available on Google because if an escapee gets loose Interstate 4 will be shut down until I'm, err, umm the "subject" escapee is caught for the 9th time. ?????ÿ
