The Barn by Ralph Hagen for February 11, 2018

I still have a Rand-McNally US states atlas in both cars. It doesn’t run out of power or suffer poor reception. Tech makes our lives easier until it doesn’t. Remember the basics.

guy to older guy: gee I wonder how people got to places before google maps. Older guy: we used maps, younger: I said BEFORE google maps….

Rory, lick your paw and the pages will flip over.

There are times when i would love to have a printed-on-paper map.

Most state Welcome Centers provide state maps.

And type-writers were the computers back then

I used to use truck driver atlases, they were laminated. They were large and beautiful. Could find anything. Had to pay $10 a month for GPS service on my flip phone back in the early 90s that was accurate to almost a half mile or so (folks would turn into a field (no kidding) ) – all back when I drove trucks for a living. Nowadays all a human has to do is hold a steering wheel.

Ancient history? Don’t make me laugh. And I still use an Atlas. I google squat.

Paws? on sheep

I prefer a map for the control – not listening to some disembodied voice telling me what to do.