GPS is an amazing invention. This little gadget actually can tell what direction the car is facing when you pull into a parking lot. What in the world is that all about?
When you're in a country like this one, with two 13-year-olds, a GPS is an invaluable tool. It takes you where you want to go, calculates how long and figures your average speed (and other stuff that is really pretty useless).
But there is a negative to a GPS. Because it takes you the fastest way possible, and sometimes the fastest way on a map is not the fastest way in reality. Translation: It gives no preference to back roads or two-lane roads that are known as highways in this part of the world.
So the GPS may take you on what it considers the fastest route, but in reality you wind up driving down a road that looks like this one. 
And when you're driving down this road and you're two-thirds of the way down the hill another car will appear, forcing you to back-up back up the hill in a state of semi-panic.
This reality highlights the best and worst things about the GPS.
Or it highlights the inability of the user of the GPS to program it properly.
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I can understand how you feel. Being in a strange place for the first time can really give you that eerie feeling. Regarding the functionality of GPS, I think it's all about the software add-on's that you have on your unit. What brand do you have by the way?
Is it just the bad pixels on my computer screen, or does that other car appear to have the exact same license plate number as Donte Stallworth?
Hard not to answer a question from someone named GPS Girl.
I bought a plain old Garmin with North American and Europe pre-loaded.
And I have no idea what it means to add to it.
What if I changed my name to PMS Boy. I'd like some questions answered, too.