When The Gps Leads You Astray....., What scrapes have you gotten into from "obeying" your GPS? Options

[DXSMac]

I am staying at Jacks Landing in Grants Pass. Nice RV park! If you ever stay here, I have two GPS tips for you.

The park is located on Morgan Lane. When GPS tells you to turn at Hillcrest, OBEY IT! Even though you will pass right through Morgan Lane. Making this tactical error will cost you five minutes of having to go around the block. Ok, my bad.

NOW! If the GPS tells you to go around the La Quinta hotel, DISREGARD! Instead, weasle through the La Quinta and Jack's Landing is right there. If you "obey" your GPS at this point, it will cost you dearly. The GPS will take you up a narrow, steep road to a DEAD END. The only way out is to drive backwards, down the grade, and around a sharp, blind curve. When I checked in, I asked the desk clerk what the "body count" was for people who obeyed their GPS and went up the dead end street. TOO MANY TIMES.

Anyone else have a snafu with their GPS?

JJ

[BBear]

I must admit, I still map out the old fashioned way (mostly because I love to do it) rather than using a GPS I got as a Christmas gift a few years ago.

And, since my mapping has yet to stear me wrong and I actually enjoy the time it takes me to map out, I don't plan changing to GPS any time soon. Although, I do have an interest in perhaps using my GPS to do some geocaching sometime in the future.

When I did actually try out the GPS for the first time I did an "alternate route" because there is this mountain that I have to travel down near my home that I have no idea why but it scares the willies out of me (people out west would probably laugh at me, because in comparison to the mountains out there, this mountain wouldn't even classify as a molehill, lol....which also is very strange, I've traveled through the Rockies and the Smokies and was never afraid of any of the roads I traveled on or afraid of any of the mountains I went up and down, but this "molehill" terrifies me, so I wanted to see if there were any alternate routes for it and one came up and I gave it a try and the first couple of roads it led me down I was familiar with and then the roads went from pavement to dirt and then started getting narrower and narrower til I couldn't go any further because all what was left was a "trail" which is exactly what it is...it's a marked nature trail that takes you down over the mountain...I sat and laughed for a few minutes...then proceeded to disconnect my GPS and put it back in the box and it's been sitting on the shelf of my garage ever since, LOL!