Google Maps: A Husband's Guide. A Wife's Savior

ben McLain By ben McLain
on July 10, 2007 at 2:55 PM, updated July 10, 2007 at 4:35 PM

"I'm not lost." (My wife rolls her eyes.) "No really, I'm not lost - I promise."

Truth be told, I am the ball and the last 12 blocks have been the high weeds. We have passed the same cell-squaking business man 5 times now. And I am sure he has AT LEAST changed conversations; however, my wife and I are still circling the same block looking for the restaurant I know is least I think I know is there. At this point I can no longer distinguish between the growl of my engine and the growl of my wife's stomach.

Help Me Technology...!

If you are a man reading this post and you swear this has never happened to you, one of two things are true: 1.) You are lying. 2.) You are a smarter man than I and you listened to your wife and used Google Maps before you left the house.

In this tech-soaked world in which we live, it is all too easy to drown in the "gadgets, widgets and what's-its" that surround us. Hopefully this blog will become your life raft for navigating the ocean of on-line information.

Your first lesson: listen to your wife. Your second lesson: listen to your wife. (Repetition never hurt). Your third lesson: visit Google Maps to find that business, hotel, post office, store front or restaurant that you swear is there (or at least it used to be). With gas prices so high, you can't afford to miss a turn or drive an extra 10 miles before you realize you missed your exit.

With Google Maps, that won't happen. Google Maps allow you to print turn by turn directions by entering a starting and ending point. You can also print maps, or use the just recently added "street view" feature to actually see the surroundings of the street to which you want to travel.

Do yourself a favor, (with a little help from this blog) embrace the technology that surrounds you. If for no other reason, do it for your wife so the woman can eat and you can avoid the dreaded "you're lost" eye roll. Now if only they had a Google Menu to help your wife order...!