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Tomorrow I will start a 4-day weekend (it's my compressed day and Monday is a holiday). elwing has hinted that she would like to go somewhere over the weekend but hasn't given me any suggestions. But since she plans the trips anyway, I figure if she comes up with a destination I'll just go along. She is a whiz at picking interesting places to go.

Why would she need to give you "suggestions"?

Just, "here's the itinerary, now start the car!"

Have a good weekend, wherever she decides to take you!

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why would she need to give you "suggestions"?

Just, "here's the itinerary, now start the car!"

Have a good weekend, wherever she decides to take you!

If GW ever tried to do that, we would get SO lost, I'd be lucky to know I was in New England, let alone the specific state. She has no sense of direction whatsoever.

Good thing I didn't know that when we met. Our first date, if you can call it that, was with her as my navigator in a road rally. I could determine that we were still in Indiana by the end, but where exactly we were in it was not so easy. If she did any real traveling, I'd buy her a GPS in a second.

gsabc wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why would she need to give you "suggestions"?

Just, "here's the itinerary, now start the car!"

Have a good weekend, wherever she decides to take you!

If GW ever tried to do that, we would get SO lost, I'd be lucky to know I was in New England, let alone the specific state. She has no sense of direction whatsoever.

Good thing I didn't know that when we met. Our first date, if you can call it that, was with her as my navigator in a road rally. I could determine that we were still in Indiana by the end, but where exactly we were in it was not so easy. If she did any real traveling, I'd buy her a GPS in a second.

California would be a breeze......if you hit some mountains, you're heading east. If you drive into the ocean, you've gone west. If you're in a place where you can't pump you're own gas and they scowl at your CA license plate then you're in Oregon. And finally if you think you're headed south and everyone speak Spanish.....well, you're still somewhere in California.

ulysses5019 wrote:

gsabc wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Why would she need to give you "suggestions"?

Just, "here's the itinerary, now start the car!"

Have a good weekend, wherever she decides to take you!

If GW ever tried to do that, we would get SO lost, I'd be lucky to know I was in New England, let alone the specific state. She has no sense of direction whatsoever.

Good thing I didn't know that when we met. Our first date, if you can call it that, was with her as my navigator in a road rally. I could determine that we were still in Indiana by the end, but where exactly we were in it was not so easy. If she did any real traveling, I'd buy her a GPS in a second.

California would be a breeze......if you hit some mountains, you're heading east. If you drive into the ocean, you've gone west. If you're in a place where you can't pump you're own gas and they scowl at your CA license plate then you're in Oregon. And finally if you think you're headed south and everyone speak Spanish.....well, you're still somewhere in California.

Just be careful not to get swallowed up by a fault line....

ulysses5019 wrote: California would be a breeze......if you hit some mountains, you're heading east. If you drive into the ocean, you've gone west. If you're in a place where you can't pump you're own gas and they scowl at your CA license plate then you're in Oregon. And finally if you think you're headed south and everyone speak Spanish.....well, you're still somewhere in California.

I tell her around here to go east until you hit ocean, then stop and ask for directions. That wouldn't have worked quite so well in Indiana.

Boston area route signs are notorious. My favorite is the highway where you are traveling on I-95 South, and then suddenly you're on I-93 North, all without turning the steering wheel or getting off at an exit. It's almost like the twisty little maze in Adventure.

gsabc wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote: California would be a breeze......if you hit some mountains, you're heading east. If you drive into the ocean, you've gone west. If you're in a place where you can't pump you're own gas and they scowl at your CA license plate then you're in Oregon. And finally if you think you're headed south and everyone speak Spanish.....well, you're still somewhere in California.

I tell her around here to go east until you hit ocean, then stop and ask for directions. That wouldn't have worked quite so well in Indiana.

Boston area route signs are notorious. My favorite is the highway where you are traveling on I-95 South, and then suddenly you're on I-93 North, all without turning the steering wheel or getting off at an exit. It's almost like the twisty little maze in Adventure.

I still get all directionally challenged when I'm in Nebraska and there's no Pikes Peak there to helpfully point out which way is west.

Iben Browning wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

gsabc wrote: If GW ever tried to do that, we would get SO lost, I'd be lucky to know I was in New England, let alone the specific state. She has no sense of direction whatsoever.

Good thing I didn't know that when we met. Our first date, if you can call it that, was with her as my navigator in a road rally. I could determine that we were still in Indiana by the end, but where exactly we were in it was not so easy. If she did any real traveling, I'd buy her a GPS in a second.

California would be a breeze......if you hit some mountains, you're heading east. If you drive into the ocean, you've gone west. If you're in a place where you can't pump you're own gas and they scowl at your CA license plate then you're in Oregon. And finally if you think you're headed south and everyone speak Spanish.....well, you're still somewhere in California.

Just be careful not to get swallowed up by a fault line....

I just missed it by a couple states and one province.....

Not bad for a dead guy!

I think Hawaii is the easiest state. You can go mauka or makai (towards the mountains or the sea) and when going around an island, you jut say you are going to Waianae side or Kanehoe side.

Easy!

Except it seems the Waipio Little Leaguers are a little bummed that everyone thinks they are from Waipahu.

christie1111 wrote:I think Hawaii is the easiest state. You can go mauka or makai (towards the mountains or the sea) and when going around an island, you jut say you are going to Waianae side or Kanehoe side.

Easy!

Except it seems the Waipio Little Leaguers are a little bummed that everyone thinks they are from Waipahu.

When hubby and I moved to Hawaii many years ago (he was in the Coast Guard stationed at Barber's Point), I remember seeing a sign on the highway that said "Waianae - Wahiawa - Waipahu". I thought I'd never figure out the language! We lived in Ewa Beach and it took me a long time to get used pronouncing it correctly...the W is pronounced like a V.

Here's Fanny! wrote:

gsabc wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote: California would be a breeze......if you hit some mountains, you're heading east. If you drive into the ocean, you've gone west. If you're in a place where you can't pump you're own gas and they scowl at your CA license plate then you're in Oregon. And finally if you think you're headed south and everyone speak Spanish.....well, you're still somewhere in California.

I tell her around here to go east until you hit ocean, then stop and ask for directions. That wouldn't have worked quite so well in Indiana.

Boston area route signs are notorious. My favorite is the highway where you are traveling on I-95 South, and then suddenly you're on I-93 North, all without turning the steering wheel or getting off at an exit. It's almost like the twisty little maze in Adventure.

I still get all directionally challenged when I'm in Nebraska and there's no Pikes Peak there to helpfully point out which way is west.

It is all perspective. I would be THRILLED to not have that entire mountain range confusing the heck out of me. After growing up in Albuquerque, with the Sandias in the east, Colorado Springs / Denver drove me batty whenever I was there.

Cindy, who is actually very talented when it comes to all things related to directions.

cindy.wellman wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:

gsabc wrote: I tell her around here to go east until you hit ocean, then stop and ask for directions. That wouldn't have worked quite so well in Indiana.

Boston area route signs are notorious. My favorite is the highway where you are traveling on I-95 South, and then suddenly you're on I-93 North, all without turning the steering wheel or getting off at an exit. It's almost like the twisty little maze in Adventure.

I still get all directionally challenged when I'm in Nebraska and there's no Pikes Peak there to helpfully point out which way is west.

It is all perspective. I would be THRILLED to not have that entire mountain range confusing the heck out of me. After growing up in Albuquerque, with the Sandias in the east, Colorado Springs / Denver drove me batty whenever I was there.

Cindy, who is actually very talented when it comes to all things related to directions.

Doesn't Idaho confuse you as well then?

Bob Juch wrote:

cindy.wellman wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote: I still get all directionally challenged when I'm in Nebraska and there's no Pikes Peak there to helpfully point out which way is west.

It is all perspective. I would be THRILLED to not have that entire mountain range confusing the heck out of me. After growing up in Albuquerque, with the Sandias in the east, Colorado Springs / Denver drove me batty whenever I was there.

Cindy, who is actually very talented when it comes to all things related to directions.

Doesn't Idaho confuse you as well then?

Where we live there are some tiny hills that gradually get larger and then behind them are the Teton mountains. This hills and mountains are towards the east. To the west is the desert. The mountains in Anchorage were to the east as well.

cindy.wellman wrote:

Here's Fanny! wrote:
I still get all directionally challenged when I'm in Nebraska and there's no Pikes Peak there to helpfully point out which way is west.

It is all perspective. I would be THRILLED to not have that entire mountain range confusing the heck out of me. After growing up in Albuquerque, with the Sandias in the east, Colorado Springs / Denver drove me batty whenever I was there.

Cindy, who is actually very talented when it comes to all things related to directions.

I knew I should have made that right turn at Albuquerque.....