42 PENNIES: Darned iPhone GPS

What's All This About, Then?
(aka Your Many Questions Indelicately Answered)

(hint #1: scroll down and this won't be as hard to read. You're welcome.)

We go on trips. Road trips. Other trips. But mostly road trips. Sometimes (ideally) long ones. Sometimes not.

Yes, this is the same blog as the one about the Oregon Trail. Yes, it used to have a stagecoach and a dusty feel to it, which went along with the Oregon Trail very nicely. Yes, that was a great trip. That was three years ago. (the blog is still here if you want to read it...it starts here)

So...as we embark on the latest chapter of our roamin' ways, we want to invite you to come along. First, we might get lonely. I mean, we don't really get lonely much, but it's possible. Second, you might miss us. Third, you just might be nosy. And fourth, we are notoriously and and historically bad at sending postcards, circulating photos, keeping up with a scrapbook; as a matter of fact, with documenting our trip in most every way. We figured this might be the 21st century solution. It worked for the last trip, which was (as you know) three years ago (sniff). So we're keeping it going.

We hope you'll pop in, read about where we are, what we're doing, see photos of our adventures, and experience our gypsy hardships (like no room service) vicariously! Most importantly, we hope you'll add your comments and greetings, which we will get when we get to one of our stopping points. Souvenir requests will receive due consideration (Hint #1: Success is highly correlated with tackiness).

For those so inclined (you know who you are), we will also list links to related sites so that you can learn with us as we learn on the road, and maybe visit some of the same sights in the future!

Happy Trails to us all!

Love, Phoebe and Robin

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Darned iPhone GPS

I've never claimed that I'm immune to mistakes.

So there we were, just driving along, heading east for the first time in ten days, and, well, the GPS said to turn right (due south) and so we did. It did seem like we were driving for a pretty long time, and the scenery didn't quite look right, but hey, we do what the map says. Lo and behold, look where we wound up.

Yeah. We're in Peru.

Oops.

I gotta say, Phoebe's really acculturated herself quickly, don't you think?

1 comment:

Audrey said...: LOL!!!!! She looks great! That's what I love about her--the assimilation factor. So very "her!"; August 29, 2010 at 9:31 PM