We had an experience with our GPS telling us to take a ferry to get to a certain restaurant for dinner. We thought it was hilarious. It was this dinky little ferry that ran about once a day. We put the “ferry avoidance” option on, then forgot about it. Then last summer we were driving around the Olympic Peninsula and trying to get to Olympic NP. You should have seen how long it took our GPS to try and come up with a route that didn’t involve ferries! We then had to turn the “ferry avoidance” back off.
My favorite GPS moment though was when we were coming over Independence Pass in the Rockies. If you’ve done any of those mountain-summit roads you know that there is only one dinky lane on each side and sometimes it even just melds into one lane total to get around a difficult bend in the road. You’re taking sharp turns on steep roads with switchbacks and hundred foot drop-offs next to you. OK, I’ve set the stage. So we’re heading down the pass and it suddenly tells us to take a right at county road D. What?! If we take a right we die, there’s nothing but air on the right. My husband looks over the side (I am driving) and starts laughing. There was a tiny deer trail where this supposed county road D was supposed to be. I figured I’d better stick with the road, even if it wasn’t the fastest way down. ❗
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
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