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Fun with the GPS

     Last night we decided to go to a presentation by archive expert John Diefenderfer on managing archives held at the Easton Public Library. I plugged the address into the GPS, and it told me it would take 22 minutes to get there.

     Using that as a guide, we headed out about 30 minutes before the program was due to start. As I had expected, it took us across the river at Buskirk and northwest through the back country. It was a beautiful evening, and the sun was setting. A very enjoyable ride to take at first. But soon dusk came on, the roads had no painted lines and were hard to see, and the deer came out in droves. We had to slow down considerably and still came close to hitting a few. They were all over the place. We have a lot of deer in White Creek, but not nearly that many! Eventually, after it got totally dark, the GPS dumped us in front of someone’s private home in the middle of nowhere, and announced we were at the library!

     By that time it was after the program was due to start, and we were lost. I zoomed out on the GPS map, and found we were still to the east of Route 40 and north of Willard Mountain ski area, so we drove south to the first intersection and then west to hit Route 40 and go home, but there was a car ahead of us that turned right onto 40, so I decided to follow it. We were in Easton, nearly in front of the library.

     Since we were there, we decided to go in even though late, but I noted to my wife that there were only two cars in front of the place, and that attendance must be slim! Upon entering, we found the meeting had been canceled because the speaker couldn’t make it! Great!

     We turned around and went home by way of Routes 40 and 67, without relying on the GPS, which kept telling us to turn left and use other roads! I had had enough of that thing for the night.