MapQuest® "Local" Rocks !
If you have never tried MapQuest "Local" you should give it a try. It will magically show you the area that you are currently in.(okay it's not magic but it is automatic)

Our favorite thing about the "Local" function is the touch screen map. When on a smartphone or touch screen device like a tablet or laptop, you can actually touch the screen and move/scroll the map around, which is light years ahead of having to use the old style cursor icon.

The Local function gives you the option of searching for nearby locations such as food and drink, arts and entertainment, hotels and lodging, and editors picks.

A very useful tip when using a smartphone and Local is to utilize wifi, that is if you have your GPS setting turned off on the smart phone, (which you should unless you're actually in the process of using your GPS). Otherwise any application will recognize your location to be where the cell phone tower is located, which could be tens of miles away from your actual location.
Another cool feature of being a logged in user of MapQuest® is that you can post pictures of where you are or leave comments. For instance, if you found a really great restaurant on Local, you could let everyone else who uses Local there, know of your good experience.

It's sunset season, and blustery winds.

Cloud formations. We kust experienced, fog, lightning, hail, and snow all at once, welcome to spring.

What a beautiful sight, a beautiful traffic-less winding country road right next to a beautiful winding country river, everything is beautiful on this beautiful day driving out in the beautiful country.

 But then all of a sudden when we get back in the city closer to home a road rager passed us and deliberately cut us off forcing us to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid a collision. So we honk and flash which makes brain dead road rager slam on brakes to slow us down. Now at the next light dim wit road rager is turning left and so do we. Then moronic road rager pulls over and stops, and so do we, about 200 feet back, not knowing what this turd burglar is going to do. Next, this knuckles dragging on ground rager gets out and starts briskly walking towards our vehicle. We hear him yelling that the speed limit was 45 mph and that we were only going 30 mph and thats what you have to do, is 45mph. So we yell to Neanderthal rager that he is wrong. Now he yells I'm getting your plate number, why are you following me. So we speed around this incredible moron up to his now vacant running van and turn on our cell video camera and film him running back to his van and he is screaming I've got you now! you'll be in handcuffs. Can you imagine what it's like living with this raging, wrong, lunatic moron.

The police said when moron ragers cut you off you are allowed to use 911. The police said they get more and more rage calls every week.

I will be installing a dash mount camera and the next time a poor little rager goes off, they will also be going off to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.



Here is a picture of the beautiful country river and the beautiful road rager running back to his van. Again what a moron!

Fail ~ Touch Screen Phone Fail ~

Hey! MapQuest® can you please tell me where I am at?

This is what happens when you have a touch screen phone and you are taking pictures. You erroneously snap pictures of things you didn't plan on taking pictures of, I went to my phones gallery of pictures and found 3 shots of feet just standing on the ground, and we're not even sure whose feet they are.

In this case it is one's feet firmly planted on the mother earth. But it doesn't verify where you actually are unless you have GPS settings turned to "on" on your cameras phone, which you should not do because you do not want people tracking your photos.

So in conclusion if you're not sure where you are you should utilize MapQuest, the best darn driving directions and maps there is.