While caught in an hours long Interstate crawl when going home after the last total eclipse, I decided to get off the freeway and use the back roads. Of course, I had no map, so I started stopping at gas stations, none of which had maps. I did manage to do it with the GPS by putting in a series of short destinations, until I was miles from any Interstate. Then I just punched "HOME" and let the GPS take me there. I also have a gps and map system for my laptop, but it's over 20 years old, and the set is no longer available from Microsoft, but it still works, although many of the maps are out of date. I have carried this in the car with me many times. It's actually better than any map, because you can zoom in and out to see a much clearer big picture or alternatively more detail, but it's a tangle of GPS and power source wires and probably a driving hazard. I've used both my car's GPS and my computer at the same time, and they often disagree where to turn, which supports the "I know more than the damn fangled GPS" argument. And sometimes that true, but you can depend on the GPS to get you there, even if you don't like the idea of trusting it, or you think you are smarter.
