The Importance of Maps (or why I am not a navigator...)

[slofox]

Went for a "little" ride before work this morning......south to Karapiro, thence East via Buckland Rd and return through Scotsman's Valley Road. Or that was the plan.....
Got to Buckland Rd OK.....yes, nice road, lots of curves, great views from on high, a little too much new seal with ball bearing gravel all over it but hey, you take what you get.
I had a vague idea of where I went from Buckland Road.......sorta head in an anticlockwise direction and you had to hit either SH1 or SH26 even if you missed Scotsman's Valley.......or so I thought.......
I eventually reached a major road with a sign saying "Racecourse".."ahhhh" I think, "must be close to Cambridge" (actually it was Matamata - maybe the "Hobbiton" sign should have told me something.......)..."will head away from there and find 26...."
Well eventually I found another major intersection and thought "yep head left here and back to Hamilton"......BUT the sign pointed RIGHT to Hamilton...."WTF??? Where am I then?"
So I followed the directions and next thing I am in Hinuera...on SH29!!! half way to bloody Tauranga......I was 180 degrees out in my direction. When I thought I was heading north I was in fact heading south..... No wonder I didn't get to navigate a polynesian canoe.....
(my excuse is that the sun was obscured by cloud.......)

[sunhuntin]

lmao... nothing wrong with a little detour! i find it hard to get lost on the open road. put me in either marton or fielding on the other hand, and im screwed! little towns really screw me over.

[gijoe1313]

I love getting lost like that, more excuse to keep on pootling around!

The funny thing is that when you want to replicate your route, you end up getting re-lost all over again!

[portokiwi]

Mrs Portokiwi and I allways have arguments over the right way. Latino women and a kiwi male Even though I am right 99% of the time. ends with her throwing the map

[vgcspares]

lmao... nothing wrong with a little detour! i find it hard to get lost on the open road. put me in either marton or fielding on the other hand, and im screwed! little towns really screw me over.

Riding South on SH1 there's about nine consecutive turn-offs signed for Feilding - if it's the same on the other side (SH2) I doubt you'd ever be able to get out of there ...

[sunhuntin]

its not the getting in or out, its getting around the town! i love thrift shops, and theres a decent salvation army at fielding. takes me about an hour to find! lmfao.

[madbikeboy]

Mrs Portokiwi and I allways have arguments over the right way. Latino women and a kiwi male Even though I am right 99% of the time. ends with her throwing the map

Umm, you realise that you're wrong. And if you're right, the silence will tell you that you're really, really wrong. And if she says nothing for a long time, and then when you ask if everything is okay, and she responds with "fine" you're really in the shit?

I'm learning about women. Basically everything that I do, and everything I say is the wrong thing to do or say. Of course, I could be especially gifted..

[slofox]

Umm, you realise that you're wrong. And if you're right, the silence will tell you that you're really, really wrong. And if she says nothing for a long time, and then when you ask if everything is okay, and she responds with "fine" you're really in the shit?

I'm learning about women. Basically everything that I do, and everything I say is the wrong thing to do or say. Of course, I could be especially gifted..

....which is why I live and ride alone.....!!

[raftn]

I never get lost.....i am simlpy discovering new ways to get to where i am going, well at least thats what i say.

[portokiwi]

Umm, you realise that you're wrong. And if you're right, the silence will tell you that you're really, really wrong. And if she says nothing for a long time, and then when you ask if everything is okay, and she responds with "fine" you're really in the shit?

I'm learning about women. Basically everything that I do, and everything I say is the wrong thing to do or say. Of course, I could be especially gifted..

mate keep that up and you will be married in no time
But you are right....... Its that cold silence that gets you.
You know you are not getting sex tonight

[sunhuntin]

I never get lost.....i am simlpy discovering new ways to get to where i am going, well at least thats what i say.

all roads lead home.

[slofox]

all roads lead home.

........eventually................

[sunhuntin]

true, but those are often the most fun!

i love taking wrong turns, specially when i dont have to be somewhere in a hurry. coming back down desert road last year, i took a turn off for fielding that was well before bulls. dont ask me to find it again, but it was a really nice road, even though it was pissing with rain. lol.

[Bonez]

true, but those are often the most fun!

i love taking wrong turns, specially when i dont have to be somewhere in a hurry. coming back down desert road last year, i took a turn off for fielding that was well before bulls. dont ask me to find it again, but it was a really nice road, even though it was pissing with rain. lol.

Probably through Halcombe. There's also the Mangaweka turn off and Viniger hill. All decent motorbiclyling roads.

[sunhuntin]

i think it was halcombe. that sounds familiar. there were a number of one way bridges if i recall and very little traffic of any kind.