[GeoStL] Re: Anyone ever find - and use - Bob's Road™? :)
- From: Laura Million <laura.million21@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:13:21 -0500
BlueBeadMan and I were caching someplace in SW Illinois when the GPS said to
keep going straight on the road, but the "road" was just a grassy/dirt space
between two plowed fields. I can't even say that there used to be a road
here and that nature took it back as you sometimes see in the country. It
appeared that the plow left a 10 foot wide path for the tractors to drive
between fields. I gotta admit, that summer after little to no rain, that
road was flatter and smoother than some of the asphalt roads we had driven
on earlier in the day. But then,that's the fun of Geocaching in the country
:-)
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Michael Rogers <mrogers07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> To begin, a Bob's Road™ is any roadway that the GPSr wants you to take that
> does not officially exist.
>
> Anyway, I was out caching in the Warrensburg/Sedalia area and used my Nuvi
> to guide me on a predetermined route. While out in the country, it wanted me
> to turn on a VERY rural road (i.e., not really gravel..a dirt road...not
> even marked). So, I did. Now, I have been down a few Bob's Roads™ before,
> and all has gone well. Usually, it makes you wonder how the Nuvi even knew
> about this roadway at all, because a Bob's Road™ can alternate between a
> semi-gravel or bedrock road that looks like someone's driveway to just a
> dirt path through a field.
>
> Anyway, I took this Bob's Road™ and it was a doozy. I drove about a mile
> through ruts, little hills, crossed a shallow creek and eventually mudded it
> through some seriously wet areas only to find another farmer had blocked the
> rest of the road! So, I had to go all the way back and find another
> way...and have my Nuvi chide me for not following the way it suggested.
>
> So, apart from this incident, I have used Bob's Roads™ with success...have
> you experienced them?
>
> -Michael
>
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