I was saved by my cell phone and a maps app after work this week!
I don't work in an area that I know well at all. It's about 15-20 km away from where I live and just not a place I go that often so I don't know it to drive around it (whereas where I live and where I used to work I could get around pretty well, far more familiar.)
I take the highway *out* to work but on my way home I want to relax a bit more than I want to be speedy so I take a back route.
Well earlier this week, I was heading home and my turn to that back route was blocked. Which I didn't know until I got up to it. At which point I am essentially lost.
The route I take is right on the edge of more rural land and again isn't an area I know and so it's not as if I knew to just take X road up ahead to get to Y. I had absolutely no idea and didn't see a street up ahead to turn on to. So I turned on to some other street and pulled into a parking area.
And this is where it is a delight to have modern technology on hand as I was able to pull out my phone and type in my home address and hit "go" and follow those directions to get myself home.
Now I have never driven on any of those roads before (even though I vaguely know at least some of their names) and I'm not sure I will again and it was likely quite a round about way to get home but I made it home and I'm happy I didn't have to dig out a map book (I do still have one though) and figure it out that way!
So thanks to technology for stepping in and stepping up when I suddenly found myself "in the middle of nowhere" (not really) and didn't know how to get myself back home.
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It's hard for me to remember the days when you had to carry a map in the glove compartment, just in case.
*looks around* *whispers* I still do carry a map in the glove compartment just in case! ;)
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