All these questions on routing???

ependydad wrote:

We Cant Wait wrote:
Just curious about all the requests for best routes etc, some even between towns in the same state. Having drove all over Europe while in the military there, and all over the U.S. while driving truck the only references I ever had was, a European Road Atlas, and U.S. Motor Carrier Atlas. Are we as a whole getting to the point that we must have others do more and more things for us by others instead of researching things our self? With all the electronic routing possibilities available to us i.e. Mapsgoole, GPS's, I-Phones, etc it'd seem that planning a route is as easy as a couple of clicks on the key pad.

In all of those years driving all over Europe adn all of the U.S., did you ever sit around with locals and asked "what's a good route to X?" and then follow it with checking your maps? Not once? Never?

Sitting with people face to face and asking these questions is a much different thing than asking on this forum. In face to face encounters you can make a judgement about the person, get info on their driving habits and preferences-prejudices and have some kind of idea how adventurous a person they are...none of which you can do on here. The two things are not the same. HOWEVER...

I cant tell you how many times locals have steered me completely wrong..in Morocco, In Cambodia, in Egypt, In SriLanka and yes even in Europe. And yes even when I spoke the language and/or they spoke English well. Even face to face has it's challenges. Computer to computer is just destined to be problematic.