GPS, and Google Maps in particular, have made traveling in unfamiliar places so much easier. We've been traveling a long time, well before the advent of cell phones and having turn by turn directions at your fingertips. We're very adept at reading paper maps, but the technology today makes things easier and can quickly let you know alternative routes when there's congestion ahead or a road is closed due to construction.
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| Our closed border crossing |
But it's certainly not foolproof. It had us turn the wrong way down a one-way street trying to get to our apartment in Mostar. As we were leaving Bosnia, it took us to a border crossing that apparently has been closed for a very long time, and then proceeded to re-route us down a narrow one lane road that dead ended into a field. More than once it told us to turn right to go to a roundabout to make a u-turn to proceed in the opposite direction, when we could have easily made a left hand turn.
It's taken us down many a back road on this trip and we've seen the real country and not just the shiny parts all the tourists want to see. For the few of you who read this blog when we travel, you know we've historically traveled with Mona's parents. They're back home and not on this trip with us which is probably a good thing. Mona's mom is very much not your glass half full kinda lady (Hi Mom!!) and she would have been freaking out every time one of these inconveniences occurred. For us, it's just part of the adventure in exploring new places.
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| There's a reason this welcome sign is grown over --- this border crossing apparently hasn't been used in years. |
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