April 5, 2012
Expecting a non-eventful trip home. After all, we really did not have much planned any more. As with yesterday, most of our group weren’t ready to go until it was “Brunch” time, which was fine. I for one did not want to end up eating at the same place we had lunch on April 4, 2012. I had nothing against Chinese food but you just can’t have that everyday. We decided on IHOP, but the GPS was not much help. When we got to the place indicated, it was empty. IHOP must have either closed or moved. So we just started the drive home for we knew that we would find something along the way. And we actually did, a small Italian diner that was situated next to an Asian Grocery and Food Mart (That was a close call).
Other than the heavy traffic along I-95, the rest of the trip went by without a hitch. It was a good thing my wife had very good direction memory (most women seem to be) and we were able to take short-cuts to avoid most of the heavy traffic.
Is there a lesson to all this? I would say, you need to decide whose direction to follow. Either you depend on human direction, or GPS. I really believe we missed most of the turns, and extended our travel time simply because we were depending on both at the same time. It is no different than having a backseat driver.