About Navigaty Chippy Thingies
Dec. 30th, 2008 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillBut, first, a bit of advice:
If you find yourself in middle Florida, with options that include Disney, Wet n' Wild, Sea World, Universal, Busch Gardens, and Epcot?
Do not go to Epcot. The rides move at a slow walk, except for when they are videos about a country, the food is overpriced in the extreme, and most of the park is gift shops. Likewise overpriced. Also, if you happen to have specialized dietary needs, you will be screwed.
And the Epcot Ball is not really a good ride, either.
Okay, now.
As a gift to MW, who frequently finds herself driving around the more dangerous portions of Detroit because her job is to get little old ladies to eat, dad purchased a Garmin. For reasons entirely unrelated, it has since been named Sir Robert the British Navigaty Chippy Thingy. (He speaks with an English accent.) There are Things:
1. Call any restaurants ahead of time. Twice now Bob has led us to a restaurant that simply completely failed to be there.
2. Know the exact address of your destination. This includes telling it to memorize your hotel/home address. It refuses to tell you how to get anywhere if you don't have an exact destination. And if you don't know, you are screwed.
Look, I didn't say lots of things. I'll tell you more as the situation changes.
Finally, the new car, a Dodge Charger with a hemi, is way overpowered for its size and is name Arnold. Like the Governator: Ahhhhhh-nold.
See y'all next year.
If you find yourself in middle Florida, with options that include Disney, Wet n' Wild, Sea World, Universal, Busch Gardens, and Epcot?
Do not go to Epcot. The rides move at a slow walk, except for when they are videos about a country, the food is overpriced in the extreme, and most of the park is gift shops. Likewise overpriced. Also, if you happen to have specialized dietary needs, you will be screwed.
And the Epcot Ball is not really a good ride, either.
Okay, now.
As a gift to MW, who frequently finds herself driving around the more dangerous portions of Detroit because her job is to get little old ladies to eat, dad purchased a Garmin. For reasons entirely unrelated, it has since been named Sir Robert the British Navigaty Chippy Thingy. (He speaks with an English accent.) There are Things:
1. Call any restaurants ahead of time. Twice now Bob has led us to a restaurant that simply completely failed to be there.
2. Know the exact address of your destination. This includes telling it to memorize your hotel/home address. It refuses to tell you how to get anywhere if you don't have an exact destination. And if you don't know, you are screwed.
Look, I didn't say lots of things. I'll tell you more as the situation changes.
Finally, the new car, a Dodge Charger with a hemi, is way overpowered for its size and is name Arnold. Like the Governator: Ahhhhhh-nold.
See y'all next year.
