I have trouble with finding my way. I get "turned around" quite easily. I know I'm not alone. Thank goodness for GPS!

When it comes to navigation skills, some of us are homing pigeons. Others are mice in a maze.

The sharp navigators are those who can figure out which way they need to go in an unfamiliar setting to get to their destination. No GPS needed to find their way around town. No always stopping for directions. Some folks, meanwhile, are hopelessly disoriented — the type that gets lost in a paper bag.

A new study suggests that skillful navigation just may be in your genes.
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I rely on my GPS often but I do have a sense of direction. I knew a young engineer when I had my first "real job" who was very intelligent but hopeless when it came to a sense of direction. We were at Pt. Magu for a Tomahawk missile test and she would just at herself about her efforts to get from the hotel to the naval base. She had a wonderful, contagious laugh. Her name was Margarita, honestly.

 

fortunately I have the homing pigeon gene.
it has led to false confidence on occasion.
I do like my GPS though.
While I always got there eventually, it wasn't always as quickly as it could have been..
But I have driven hundreds of miles on back rods with nothing more than a sense of where I wanted to get to and the sun over my shoulder.
Driving a convertible helps with this mode of navigating as well.

 

Love the GPS for the car. Makes me feel very comfortable going new places and also being able to have a suggested route around traffic in a new area. Also love my Garmin for golf. Best thing when you are playing a new course

 

I have a great sense of direction. My wife is the polar opposite. I've been thinking of getting her a GPS, but she is not into "technology."

My buddies and I used to play a game in college. We would blind fold 1 person, drive for 1/2 hour, take the blind fold off and make him drive us home. It was hilarious. It took as much as 2 hours to get back sometimes.

 

We leave for Naples Fla. tomorrow for a month. My kids bought me a TomTom GPS and although I am good with maps and directions this thing is awesome. I will use it fo find golf courses, restaurants and meeting places for the cycling group I contacted in Naples. Hoping for warmer weather as it has been unseasonably cold in Fla.

 

OMG, not another I-love-my-GPS thread!

 

My sense of direction is pretty bad. Finding the restaurant for breakfast at a hotel, can be a challenge.

The gift of a GPS to a directionally challenged person is a great idea. While they aren't perfect, they are a great tool. They are pretty basic technology, conedodger. Your wife shouldn't have any issues.

I no longer have reservations about driving somewhere new, as between a GPS and a cell phone I'll get there. Relying on maps, printed sheets from map quest just doesn't do the trick for me.

Just don't as for dlq04's .02 on a GPS.

 

They don't call me Dr. Geography for nothing. I can get lost backing out of the garage.
My mother and brother are the same way, so I think I got the "lost" gene from my mother.

 

Dare I say I am very good at it?
At night, I use Venus and the Moon path as aides. During the day, the path of the sun and the Protococcus on the north sides of trees are my friends. My GPS works too.