Jul 04 2008
the “female travel guide”
It’s one thing to be just reading about a product, and another thing to have one. By, my hubby, has got this GPS Tracking gadget which is very useful in travel. The device, which he hangs near the front mirror, shows the road on which the car is traveling, with an arrow indicating where the car’s present location is.
Presently my parents and two sisters are spending their vacation with us here in Pori City, Finland, and naturally we want them to be toured around to destinations of interest. They wanted to visit the two UNESCO Cultural Heritage sites of Rauma which is more than 100 kilometers away from Pori, and so off they went last Sunday. I wasn’t with them as we wouldn’t all fit in the car, and I was not feeling well also. Though By’s work location is near one of the sites, he was not really familiar with the details of the way leading to it, but it was the device, programmed with a female voice, which would prompt him where to turn, by how many meters, as: “after 200 m, there will be an intersection, turn right…” or similar directions.
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