On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:22 -0500, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Herbert Graf wrote:
> 
> > That said, when travelling somewhere you've never been the absolute
> > freedom that modern navigational aids is astounding.
> 
> Kind of... For me, when traveling, it's not so much about arriving at my
> target, but the experience of getting there. And this is possibly
> enhanced by the occasional chat about where I am and where I want to go.
> It seems that these aids not exactly make these experiences impossible,
> but probably less frequent -- you just don't ask. With which one may
> lose out on something.

See, for me it's most certainly the journey, not the destination, yet I
look at it completely differently. There are two elements here for me:

1) When navigating the dead tree way I'm always concerned about taking a
detour since it's a relatively large amount of effort to figure things
out again, ESPECIALLY if the detour isn't on your map. As a result I
always found I was resisting seeing where that weird looking road went.
With my GPS I don't think twice, I just turn and it figures out the best
way to continue. Since the GPS has a huge "points of interest" database,
far bigger then any paper map, it actually enhances your options.

2) The time of arrival feature is by far the most useful to me. When I
see something along the way that I want to see I just add it as a via
point. The GPS then reports my revised time of arrival. Based on that I
can decide whether to "go for it" or not. MUCH more relaxing then the
dead tree method where you're taking out a ruler to see how much time it
will likely add to your journey.

To each his or her own I suppose, but I know for me it's been that much
more fun to travel with a GPS then without. I can explore as much as I
want, as long as that time of arrival doesn't go over the time I need to
be where I need to be I can continue exploring.

Heck, I even use my GPS to go home, not for the directions, but just for
the time of arrival, it's very accurate.

TTYL

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