[gps-talkusers] Re: telling folks where to go:
- From: Peggy Kern <kernsac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:27:10 -0700
I quite frequently find places for my husband. When my mom moved into a
nursing home in Elk Grove, I located it and told my husband how to find
it. When Hubby had to pick up a glass shower door, he gave me the address
of the place, and I created a route and gave him directions. I did the
same when we switched from cable to satellite TV and he needed to return
our cable boxes. And in New York he wanted to visit a publishing company
of a certain series of books he liked, so I helped him find the
place. It's so much fun having a more active role in how we and others get
to where we're going!
Peggy
At 06:28 PM 5/29/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Mary Ellen,
>
>The first day I had GPS I spent half the night looking around my old
>neighborhood using virtual mode. I also looked around my current
>neighborhood. When I first moved into this neighborhood ten years ago, my
>O&M instructor made a detailed Braille map which listed all of the
>businesses in the area at the time. When I compare the Braille map to the
>information provided by BrailleNote GPS, I'm amazed at much things have
>changed!
>
>Lisa
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 9:14 PM
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] telling folks where to go:
>
>
>I actually was stopped by a lady who was looking for one of the little tiny
>lanes which makes our village such an intriguing place in which to live.
>The poor woman was nearly in tears because she had cruised up and down the
>entire village looking at all the side streets of course, to no avail. I
>told her exactly where the street was and as she pulled away I heard the
>child in the car with her saying, "Hay mom, did you see that lady's guide
>dog? It was sure curly!"
>I laughed to myself and went my merry way until running into a friend, to
>whom I related my experience. He had been a teacher of mine in elementary
>school and he simply said, "Well, you know where every street in this
>village is."
>Oh I had fun the other day. I called up an address where I spent 20 years of
>my life from early teens until my parents moved into a retirement home. I
>had the gps find me a route to a nearby restaurant which had been the corner
>drug store when I lived there and I could still walk that route in my sleep
>but it was tremendous fun seeing the gps's take on things.
>Mary Ellen Earls
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