Navigation Lady Goes Postal

road trip: back from Rend Lake

The trip back from Rend Lake was as nice as the Drive up. There was a detour sign that would have kept me out of some of the famed Nashville road construction traffic, but I missed it because I couldn’t see over the SUV in front of me. Oh well. I continued on. Approaching the stadium, the navigation lady directed me off the highway. I figured she must be directing me to a connecting on ramp because I was soon to change the direction of my travel. But soon I am being guided through all sorts of surface streets. What is going on???

Yes, the Navigation Lady lost it. It had switched from highway mode to avoid highways. I was sent round in circles. At one point the screen froze. “well that’s not good” I thought aloud, and looked over at the cow sitting on the front seat “do you know how to get home?” The cow didn’t answer. I suspected he did not. In my roaming I had passed the Hard Rock Café. Rather than deal with the Navigation Lady’s melt down, I decided it was time to stop for lunch.

Lunch finished, and a bit of site seeing done, time to get back on the road. I double check the SatNav settings and off we go. Great, major construction right at the on ramp and the merging lanes to the other road I need to get to. I look at the SatNav screen, it points an arrow north, then east, then north then west, then south then east … ack! It couldn’t figure out where I was and where I needed to go! I looked at the cow sitting beside me, “the navigation lady’s really lost it MooMooMoo.” He just stared.

We eventually got out of that mess, and returned home safely. All with enough time to scrub the bugs off the front bumper and bonnet.