Traveling

Hello,

We traveled to Brian’s house this weekend to participate in the celebration for Sophia’s sixth birthday. Can we have three granddaughters who are six? How did that happen?

The drive up was mostly uneventful in spite of me needing to use the restroom when we were not ready to stop for gas. But we were still making good time until we got to some road construction south of the split of 35W and 35E where a sign declared use both lanes in back up. Ok, so there were not many cars and we just stayed in our lane. By the time we saw another such sign both lanes seemed to be full. Sometimes we crept along at 3 mph and at others we were stopped. An electronic sign informed us that it would 45 minutes until those Interstates went their separate ways. We did not look at the time but later it said it would be 30 minutes. Not sure but we believe it had been much longer than 15 minutes to make that much progress.

I looked at the map of the Twin Cities searching for that alternate route. The map did not go that far out. Unfortunately, on the Minnesota map, there was not enough detail for the place where we were currently residing. I have to confess that I did not consider using Leroy’s phone as I do not know much about it. We do not have GPS in our car.

I called Brian to let him know where we were moving at a snail’s pace. He wanted to know the mile marker, but it was not instantly handy. He was able to use the information when I did give it to him to create that alternate route for us and save us seven minutes. So we do have a GPS named Brian. We did use technology just in a different way. He used his computer at home, talked me through the close intersections and then sent a text of the rest. It worked quite well. I like maps, but at times the paper is a bit limiting.

Paula