Growing up we went on many road
trips. We would drive to Florida every spring break. We also would go to North
Carolina almost every summer to visit family friends. My mom could probably
drive from Florida to here in her sleep. However, roads are always being worked
on. Indiana seems to always have road construction in the summer, every summer.
It makes sense because you can't work on the roads in the winter with the
weather and cold. It's always a good idea to have a couple ways to get
somewhere in case there's construction or delays.
Maps are important. I know that
everything is online and we have GPS but it doesn't replace paper maps. Noah
has had atlases to look at. I have taught him to read maps because you never
know when you will lose service or your phone battery will die. I remember one time
I was in the car with a friend. We drove to Myrtle Beach for the weekend. She
had GPS built in to her new car. We were trying to find our hotel and ended up at
the police station. We didn't have a map with us. We ended up having to ask for
directions. While you can do that, you rely on someone else knowing where it
is. When you are vacation, it's likely the other person is on vacation too.
This was before smart phones so we didn't have any other form of GPS or maps on
our phones. Thankfully we made it safely and didn't get lost.
Getting lost can be an adventure
except when you end up in a bad part of town late at night. That can be very
dangerous. My family still pulls out the maps from the glove box and checks the
GPS to make sure it's right. Sometimes it can be wrong. It's not perfect yet we
rely on it to be. You can definitely benefit from having maps to help you get
where you are going. It's also fun to appoint a family member to be the
navigator. That way you don't have to worry about your cell phone dying or
going somewhere that is uncharted. I know that you can't use a GPS to get to my
aunt and uncles house in the mountains.
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