5thwheeleroldman wrote:
79 years old and the grandkids talked me into smartphones --- confusing, then wonderful! I threw away all my old atlas and paper maps. Also the yellow pages. It's hard, but necessary to keep up w/ technology.
You can do that if you want, but I never will.
I am a watermen, and much of my life I had a nametag that said "Navigator". We now travel with a GPS for the driver, a smartphone running as internet link and a laptop running the last and final copy of Street Atlas. But, on the library shelf behind the driver are a set of guide books and they are all on top of a McNally Street Atlas.
Why?
Because when things go wrong (and they will - Murphy was an optimist) the paper still does and always will work.
We make very good use of the technology, but I will never trust it. I am not that much behind you in years, but there are some hard won lessons dealt by lightning and other things that I am not about to forget.
Matt
