As I researched my plan for traveling the back roads from Virginia to Boston, someone (that would be Christina) inquired about my GPS for cycling. The thought hadn't occurred to me; however, due diligence prevailed and overcame my original plan. The original plan was my personal preferred navigation system, SOPG (seat of pants guidance). This latter system worked nicely for Bill and I on our cross country trip until we arrived in west Texas. Bill wanted to know where we were going and if there were roads to our destinations. This seemed a little picky by my rather low standards for navigation. Anyway, we bought maps and found out that interstate travel via bicycle is really an exciting way to travel!
Well, in the current situation neither GPS nor SOPG seemed to meet my basic needs. It was time to go to the God of the internet, Google. Google maps for cyclists to be more precise. You simply type in beginning and ending locations and you get 50+ pages of turns every 75 feet between Radford and Boston! Eventually, I reduced the font size and chopped the information into a more portable 20 pages. Since I'm going blind trying to read the small print without a magnifying glass, I'm going back to SOPG. It's still my comfort zone!
This is yours truly lost in space,
Mick
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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