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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Crossing the Mississippi

Good morning,

On our recent road trip to Texas we did what we have always done.  We plugged the address where we were going into our GPS and started driving.
Road trips were a part of our lives for so long before retirement that we didn't think about something we took care of routinely before.  It has been almost a year and a half since retirement, thus a long road trip, and we hadn't updated our GPS. 
Just let me say there is one heck of a lot of construction out there!  Our GPS tried to take us on roads that didn't exist and redirected us to tiny back country roads. 

It all worked out fine, though, because we never felt lost and knew we could easily find our way to where we were trying to go.

The fun part was that we crossed the Mississippi River much further North than we had originally planned.
We had beautiful weather and enjoyed our trip tremendously.  What was so good was that we were on vacation, not driving 1,100 miles to go back to work. 

All the best,
Lois

2 comments:

MarkD60 said...

On more than one occasion, I have plugged the address into the GPS, as you describe, and it took me all backroads. Once, this was from Kansas City to Lake Of The Ozarks, and it was quite pleasant. Another time, (different car, different GPS) I was going from Silver Spring Maryland to Milford Deleware, and it took me north through the ghettos of Baltimore instead of south, across the Rt 50 bridge. It should have taken me 3 hours and it took more than 6. Way, way out of my way! Plus some pretty spooky travelling through Baltimore, city blocks of what seemed like abandoned buildings, people that looked like drug dealers, gang members and addicts.
I always verify with a map since then!

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

we enjoy road trips as well, but haven;t taken a really long distance one in quite awhile, Lois. I was wondering how long the drive from Ohio took and how long did you stay in Texas after the long drive.