20-12-2019, 04:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-12-2019, 04:42 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
"If the navigator can keep a steady stream of comments describing the route (corners, gradients, bridges, not just the junctions)"
I only disbelieved Mike once - as we crossed a hump-back bridge at speed - and got a well-deserved "Told you so". Being able to "read" the road from an OS map is most useful and something that can never be practised too often.
"Then there was the occasion when I called a right turn at a junction, only for Tony to turn right before the junction into someone's driveway. A quick circuit of the garden, over the rockery and back down the driveway saw us back onto the route."
Do you remember the farmyard Mike? We turned into it by mistake (it must have been yours this time!) and hit the 6-bar gate that, fortunately, was not locked. The gate sprang open and, as we did a circle of the yard, bounced off the "open|" stop and then, as we approached, rebounded off the wall so we didn't even have to stop to open it. God was with us....
I only disbelieved Mike once - as we crossed a hump-back bridge at speed - and got a well-deserved "Told you so". Being able to "read" the road from an OS map is most useful and something that can never be practised too often.
"Then there was the occasion when I called a right turn at a junction, only for Tony to turn right before the junction into someone's driveway. A quick circuit of the garden, over the rockery and back down the driveway saw us back onto the route."
Do you remember the farmyard Mike? We turned into it by mistake (it must have been yours this time!) and hit the 6-bar gate that, fortunately, was not locked. The gate sprang open and, as we did a circle of the yard, bounced off the "open|" stop and then, as we approached, rebounded off the wall so we didn't even have to stop to open it. God was with us....