Thanks to the car-centric development of this our Southwestern city we often have destinations only a few miles away that you can't ride to on direct, paved routes. OTOH, thanks to our extensive dirt trails, there are often off-road workarounds that, if they add 50% or more to the total distance are pleasant to ride -- and after all, one rides for pleasure; or I hope one does.
I have to take a computer in to a shop tomorrow. By 6-lane boulevard and resulting horrible intersections it's 3.3 miles, but per Google maps there is apparently a combined residential street-cum-dirt trail route that can get me there. The trouble is that it's complicated enough that I have a hard time following it on my 42" professional screen. Also, I am rather "spatially dyslexic:" I don't easily comprehend spatial directions, relations, and distances -- generally I painstakingly work out complicated routes on a verbal instruction sheet. I cannot use Google Maps or on a 2" iPhone screen. But: is there some miracle phone app that will, say, let you pick out such a route on a big screen and transfer it to a phone where the app will walk you through the turns and distances? Otherwise, I'll stick to writing out route marker lists. Aside: When I drive with my daughter, she gauged routes using Siri to operate a direction app that would nag you to turn in "100 yards" or what have you. But (1) I will *not* talk to a ddogamned machine, and (2) the routes in question involve paths that I expect are not inside Google or Apple systems. Patrick Moore, who from time to time revisits Robin Williams very funny Siri putdown on Ellen DeGeneres. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgusuRHkc29nDRO7YE8xS_Xd7zG%3D2VWFNYUqjvevZnee_g%40mail.gmail.com.
