Good News!

Our youngest grandson, Elliot, playing on the JV tennis team for his high school. Since moving to the big city, Al has been doing most of the driving. He enjoys it and does well maneuvering through urban traffic. With a population of about 4 million people in Metro Detroit and its surrounding counties, rarely are there just a few cars ahead of us on the road. Ongoing construction projects, accidents, rush hour traffic… all contribute to log jams and long delays. The GPS app on our cell phone gives good alerts to problems on the road in advance, often rerouting us to avoid road closures. We rely on the Global Positioning System for directions to unfamiliar places as well. Most of the time it has been very dependable, so much better than trying to follow directions on a paper map! Remember those days? With Al in charge of driving, my job is to give directions when on the road. I am a grateful user of the GPS, but only have a vague idea of how it works and who owns and operates it. ...