-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-06-19  05:15 <=-

 >  JM> On Interstates its miles
 >  JM> and miles before one can back track.  One reason I hate them so.
 > But at least on interstates there generally is a lot more warning for
 > needing to be in a particular lane...   (But often more traffic,
 > which doesn't help, admittedly...)

 JM> I have found that if I want a particular street, turn off, whatever
 JM> there is almost invariably someone to my left or right (which ever way
 JM> I'm turning) who wasn't there a second before.

You just need to banish Murphy from riding on your bumper.... 
 
 >  JM> With my phone, Apple Maps on the car and finding a hot spot I
 >  JM> sometimes use their directions. 
 > You are better off having a real map... so that you can just see that
 > what you want is just a block away.... 

 JM> I prefer real maps as well.
 JM> I have a general idea where I am going, from point A to point B, but
 JM> on a real map I'll see something and think that looks interesting.
 JM> I will lay the map out and plot my course circling various roads,
 JM> etc. That that is copied to paper as route "x to y, l/r to 123" and so
 JM> forth.  I can then glance at that paper and know where to turn, etc.

Maps are great planning tools...   I just stopped by AAA yesterday and
got maps for the trip I have to make to pick up my son at the Montreal
airport next week.... The TripTik showed substantial construction on the
401... I'm thinking I'll stay on this side of the St. Lawrence a little
longer and cross into Canada at Cornwall instead... shouldn't hurt my
trip time much if at all...  But without the maps I'd not have noticed
that there was another crossing that would do just as well... I'd
already figured that instead of crossing at Alexandria Bay, I'd wait
until Ogdensburg.... just another revision... 

 >  JM> I like it when people give landmarks where to turn.
 > I always find that knowing what to watch for, if nothing else, gives
 > reassurance that one is at the right place

 JM> I have always used landmarks of some sort when giving directions. 
 JM> It's a lot easier to say x blocks from this or that building, rather
 JM> than "turn left at the tiny corner grocery store" as well as give other
 JM> landmarks along the way, like you wrote, so the driver will know they
 JM> are in the right direction.

Exactly.    And sometimes it's also helpful to add... if you get to x
landmark, you've gone too far.... 
 
 >  JM> Joe (in Hannibal, MO, 
 > Moving right along there, you are...  

 JM> I'm now in Pecos, TX, oil country!
 JM> I don't know half the time where I am, what day it is or what time
 JM> it is. I was on MDT for several days and would think "it's 5 a.m. but
 JM> in REAL time its 7 a.m."  My watch and laptop are on real time but the
 JM> car and phone are on whatever time zone I'm in.

Probably good to keep your bearings on home time as well as local
time... especially as it's only a couple time zones over...  When I've
gone to the UK, though, I tried to put myself totally on local time,
just so that the body would adjust without too much jetlag... 

 JM> Joe  (where am I and when did I arrive?)

That is one drawback to having your own flexible itinerary... you can't
refer to the tour literature, and say "this is Wednesday, it must be
Paris"....  

ttyl       neb

... Deja Tue:  A feeling that yesterday was Monday ...

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