So... we’re taking this road trip 21st century style: with a blog and with satellite navigation!
The sat nav is very very very useful, but...
On Tuesday night we asked it to look for a nearby campsite. 15 miles it told us, slightly off our route but we decided to go for it anyway. That was a mistake! 25 minutes later we found ourselves being told to ‘take the next left’ only to find the locked gates of a land-fill site!
We didn’t despair however. The sat nav can re-route you and since we were still a mile away we figured it must be behind the landfill or something. So... the reroute took 10 more mins (note...it was 11pm at this point). This time we found ourselves being asked to take the next left into a dirt track... the distinct lack of any sign of a campsite made us a little suspicious but we took the road anyway, until it narrowed and we gave up, only to drive back to the motel we passed and spend the night in veritable comfort. Oh well!
M
The sat nav is very very very useful, but...
On Tuesday night we asked it to look for a nearby campsite. 15 miles it told us, slightly off our route but we decided to go for it anyway. That was a mistake! 25 minutes later we found ourselves being told to ‘take the next left’ only to find the locked gates of a land-fill site!
We didn’t despair however. The sat nav can re-route you and since we were still a mile away we figured it must be behind the landfill or something. So... the reroute took 10 more mins (note...it was 11pm at this point). This time we found ourselves being asked to take the next left into a dirt track... the distinct lack of any sign of a campsite made us a little suspicious but we took the road anyway, until it narrowed and we gave up, only to drive back to the motel we passed and spend the night in veritable comfort. Oh well!
M
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