How a GPS device can make your trip more efficient and worthwhile
I pretty much use my portable GPS navigator in my car every day, like when I’m going to visit my relatives in Mississippi. I usually like to drive out there since I’m up here in Chicago, and I’d rather not take a plane. If I took a plane I couldn’t stop anywhere and look at any of the interesting things along the way – I usually plan my course so that I can see as many things as possible on the way there, but without my portable GPS navigator I would be stranded on taking just one of the interstates south. It’s just not fun driving so long without seeing anything, and I really hate airplanes – so I use mine and its map to make sure I am where I should be. When I do go to my aunts or grandmother’s house down in Mississippi I have to use the darn thing an awful lot so I don’t get lost on the back roads. They live a bit out of the way, so it can be very confusing, and since I don’t visit but once or twice a year it’s hard for me to remember where I am at or which ...