Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for May 21, 2022

Oh woe is you

X-Trail?

You can still buy maps. Just saying.

Just don’t ask anyone for directions.

Maybe they can find an Easter Bunny to lead them around.

Civilization Ho!

sounds like a problem in modern societal behavior.

Back when I was in the military (Continental Army), my wife and I would say, “Time to get transferred; we know our way around town.”

When I first moved to the city where I now live, I asked a local for directions and in part they were, ’Go down to where the old Baptist Church used to be."

Ever hear of a roadmap? Duh

Use an actual GPS and not a phone

And (gasp) a good,ol’fashioned paper map…..

Could have downloaded the maps to the location before you go and they would not have required an Internet connection.

There’s a GPS chip in the phone; unless it’s specifically made to exclude it. No cell service signal needed.

Grew up on a farm, no road signs back then. Asked my father for directions to a neighboring town. “Go down the road that way till you come to a road that goes between those two buttes. Take that road and when you get to the other side of the buttes, take the first road to the left and keep going till you get there.”

Reminds me of a Philip J. Fry line from “Futurama” – “Just like Earth before the white man came.”

Yo, wagons forward!

I used to be a Forward Air Controller. This meant that I used the same 1:50,000 scale maps as the Army.

One day I had one of my Army counterparts up for a ride in my O-2A (A Cessna Skymaster that got drafted). At one point he had his map out and asked where we were. I told him that he was three maps behind. He was used to slugging along by foot at maybe 3 to 5 knots. I was flying at 120 knots.

I had an advantage: at altitude one could see tens of miles. In the woods one can see tens of feet.

Sounds like my wife!

Next time, download an offline version of google maps before you leave. It will work where no wifi signal is available.