On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:22:26 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Silvan wrote:

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I'm trying to find a Boy Scout camp waaaaaaaay in the middle of nowhere,
with nothing more than an extremely crappy map to guide my way. I drive
around for over an hour on all kinds of twisty little unpainted back
roads, and I still haven't found it.

I know exactly where I am in relation to my point of origin, and I can
find
my way back home easily. I just don't know where I am in relation to the
destination.

So is that lost, or not? I say not. I'm not lost if I know how to get
back
to a known location. Everybody else tells me I was lost.

"Tarzan not lost, Tarzan _here_. Trail lost."

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Just for hohos, try plugging the address if there is one into Mapquest and
see if it can give the directions.


Mapquest will almost always give directions; however, those directions
may not necessarily be of any use. This past summer, I was staying in
Huntsville at the airport hotel and requested Mapquest provide directions
to a certain destination. Mapquest obliged with a detailed list of "go
this far, turn north on ..., go ... etc." I followed the directions,
unfortunately Mapquest took me to a point, where, sometime in the future,
people may be able to cross over or under the interstate that dead-ended
the road I was to follow. I was able to gaze through the fence, across the
interstate to the other end of my route but had no way of getting there
from the directions I was provided. So, with the exception of
approximately 100 yards of road and an overpass, Mapquest provided a
detailed route to my destination.

I did find my way to where I was headed, but Mapquest kind of
disappointed me.