Escaped the hospital yesterday....six days of treatment (Shingles)....fairly serious. Focus of the bout? My head and a area about the size of a grapefruit above my eye....swelling up the eye big-time. So I ended up getting three IV bags of solution per day....in a semi-luxury hospital room in Wiesbaden (it had a 48-inch TV, refrigerator, and free coffee/water/sodas).
So the the GPS topic.
I watched a podcast where some younger guy asked the question....how did we survive before GPS came along?
He kinda has a point.
At various times (Tacoma, Shreveport, Denver, and Tucson)....I kept a city paper-map in the car....under the driver's seat. It was 'survival-driving'.
It was not the best way, and it forced you to plan as much of a your trip ahead of time....as possible.
These map-talents existing today? I doubt it. From the over-50 folks.....they probably still have it....but the under-30 group? No....they won't be needing map talents.
My use today of GPS? It's inter-connected with the bus-rail App. Plus the car itself has a independent program.....which you need to program on some trips.
Yeah, I've gotten use to it.
