You have a map...

Stop at the first house with the lights on.....assign blame.

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In Alice In Wonderland, Alice came to a fork in the road, and stood there wondering. The Cheshire cat noticed her, and asked what the problem was. She told him about the fork in the road and she couldn't decide which path to take.

He then asked her where she wanted to go, and she said she wasn't sure. To which, he replied that it really didn't matter then which path she chose because all roads lead somewhere.

The cryptic nature of the reply perhaps inspires a bit of rumination. Maybe he's telling her to figure that out first before moving ahead, or maybe he's telling her, hey, you're in Wonderland, so just relax and enjoy the trip, or maybe he is telling her that as long as you sit there puzzling over where to go, you will never go anywhere.

My answer to your question would be to fire that baby up, pick a destination that looks like it may offer some adventure, put some road tunes on (Born To Be Wild, They call Me The Breeze, The Wanderer, etc...), and let your wanderlust flag fly till you can sit back and say, "Wow, that was some trip".

For the record: If you wind up in some jail in Tijuana, you didn't get this advice from me.
 
I try not to leave the house if at all possible. Everything I need is here, so why would I want to leave? I've seen everything I want to see and done everything I want to do... other than creating music.

I'm still working on getting better at making music, so that's one of the few things that keeps me going, but I have no desire to ever play in public again. Not since I did a pitch analysis on my voice and found out just how bad a singer I am.

At home, I can do pitch correction on my recorded vocals, but if I'm playing live in front of people, I think you need some expensive equipment to be able to do it real-time, or a really fast computer. That wouldn't work anyway, since I've never played in front of 25 or 30 people. Professional singers can only pull that off when singing in front of 100s or 1000s of people who are only hearing the PA system. The audience members directly in front of them would still be able to hear the off-pitch notes.

Sorry... I'm rambling. :ROFLMAO:
 
I seriously doubt I'd get myself in a situation like that, since I never start out without a planned destination as well as directions. What I have done, and I hate it, I've started out for a short pleasure trip, just to get out of the house awhile, then halfway there, changed my mind, turned around, and came back home.
 
When I changed positions (within my office) and became a VD Investigator with the city, I had to learn to read a map. We didn't have cell phones with GPS back then. I later took a position with the state (same office) as Public health Rep aka Disease Intervention Specialist. The city job required me to cover areas in Passaic County N.J. Once I was on state payroll, I had to cover several counties so being able to read and understand the maps was essential. I preferred book maps.
 
Use the sun for direction. Odd number highways run north and south, even numbers run east and west. Follow a river.
Stop at a gas station and ask directions.
Our roads don't work like that.... ours work on a number system in that instead of all roads leading to and from Rome, in the UK all roads lead from London outwards starting at 1.. so for example the A1.. is the main motorway leading outwards to the North... from London,
Great Britain road numbering scheme - Wikipedia
 
I've always thought it would be neat to just randomly drive through rural areas and stop in the small towns and also take in the roadside attractions.
I've done this, and it goes some way to creating my super sense of direction...which I've had since a child.. but until this last couple of years I was always taking these types of trips..along with my husband.. and we'd stop off at all the various type of marinas to check out the boats, and stop at loads of riverside pubs along the way...

I rarely ever used a map..in fact never in my memory... and only very occasionally used guidance from a Sat nav when I just got really lost...

Today alone, I don't really do those trip any more aside from very occasionally , and it saddens me...
 
Our roads don't work like that.... ours work on a number system in that instead of all roads leading to and from Rome, in the UK all roads lead from London outwards starting at 1.. so for example the A1.. is the main motorway leading outwards to the North... from London,
Great Britain road numbering scheme - Wikipedia
In the U.S. in Florida, there is a State Route highway A1A, renamed in Jimmy Buffet's honor.
 

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