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It blows my mind talking to my grandpa. His first question is how was traffic and the next is how did I get there. Then he'll say well next time take the 5 for 3.9 miles, then hop on 78 until you see the 420 then do a triple lane change to the 69 then you're home. And then I'm like sure thing grandpa I'll remember that for sure, as I'm tapping the home button on google maps lol.
My uncle was visiting a few months ago from overseas and I was driving him somewhere in my home town, and he off-handedly mentioned a different route he'd taken to get there in the 1960s lol
"How did you get here?"
"I dunno, I just did what my GPS said!"
"I followed the blue line until it told me to stop"
That was me on driver license course, lol.
Without even knowing where those roads are I see you are on the West Coast.
Is this that "Californians" SNL sketch?
I had never seen that before... It's so accurate lmfao
No, it's real life. I mean yeah I know the sketch, but I was in Crater Lake and heard people actually talking like that.
5 and 78 meet up on San Diego county
Gen X and prior used a lot of landmarks to get from A to B where routes were commonly used. Landmark navigation is still heavily used today in places like India and Mexico where routes change hourly sometimes due to road closures and accidents that gps mapping cannot account for.
I once had to drive pre-google from Paris, France to Madrid, Spain and then to Valencia, Spain with nothing more than a AAA Auto Club map and a Philips Road Atlas. Not fun in many eays, but it was an adventure.
When grandpa asks "how did you get here" its a trap. Whatever answer you give will be wrong and will correct you with a lecture
This is California as fuck.