Garmin GPS Special Routing

I love Garmin GPS’s.   Of course, I like swearing at my electronics, and that is what Garmin gives me most, something to swear at.

I exercise my GPS pretty well because I never really follow it. I will select where I am going and then turn in every direction except the one the GPS tells me to.   It spends most of it’s time recalculating,

So I guess you can’t blame the GPS if it occasionally revolts and tries to get back at me for ignoring it so often.

I was riding more or less the route the GPS was saying to go, which was going to bring me through the center of a small town. The GPS said to turn right on a non-existent road.  OK, … NO.  Then, instead of continuing the route on the road that it had intended me to get to,  it rerouted me to go left and ride completely around the city. It was a road that went up hill and was curvy. Fine with me.

The road was narrow, twisty and a lot of fun. Then the road turned dirt. Then it got kinda rough. Then it ended at a fork with two gates. Both closed. And a police car. No police though.

 

Looking at the road, I didn’t think I would have continued anyway. This is not that kind of trip.

I wondered why Garmin would have sent me down this road. It was obviously never a major road. Then I saw why. Sure, the road was closed, but the bar was open.   Garmin decided I needed a drink.

It was an interesting place in the woods and was pretty popular but it was too late for coffee and I was riding so beer was out of the question.   Maybe next time.