Gulf Coast I&i 2019

[DB]

The impromptu attempt by my phone to turn our return from Saumur into a 2 day cycle trip us still entirely unexplained.

[Harold Jones]

Your phone clearly had it in for us, don't forget out detour to My Little Pony Bridge.

[Allan W]

SNORK!

 

Your phone clearly had it in for us, don't forget out detour to My Little Pony Bridge.

[sunday]

Your phone clearly had it in for us, don't forget out detour to My Little Pony Bridge.

 

[Markus Becker]

Your phone clearly had it in for us, don't forget out detour to My Little Pony Bridge.

 

That was epic: "You have arrived at your destination."

 

And it even had a photogenic little bridge.

[Harold Jones]

We were headed to Pegasus Bridge, here is where the phone took us.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RoVjbJkmt2p59A126

Edited June 25, 2019 by Harold Jones

[rmgill]

Clearly a strategic crossing over that particular waterway.



It's a beutiful bridge!

[Markus Becker]

Yes, that was so much fun for everyone who didn't have to back up a car out the narrow dead end street.

 

https://i.imgur.com/LzXOuHH.jpg

[Harold Jones]

Alligators, water moccasins and cotton mouths will certainly raise the stakes on any navigation issues for this I&I.

[Markus Becker]

The only cotton mouth I know is a dead villain from Luke Cage.

[Harold Jones]

Sorry meant Copperhead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon_contortrix, Cotton Mouth is another name for Water Moccasin.

[Markus Becker]

They are said to taste like chicken and they have the shape of a looooong sausage. ... I can work with that.

[Harold Jones]

I've had rattlesnake, snapping turtle and alligator and none of them really taste like chicken, but they are tasty in their own right.

[Stargrunt6]

We were headed to Pegasus Bridge, here is where the phone took us.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RoVjbJkmt2p59A126

 

I've seen european autos, you had plenty of room.

[sunday]

 

We were headed to Pegasus Bridge, here is where the phone took us.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RoVjbJkmt2p59A126

 

I've seen european autos, you had plenty of room.

 

 

Seems you did not see autos, you saw scooters.

[DB]

European cars are sized for European roads, so "full sized" cars would have baulked at even attempting that road, let alone getting back out again. Ask about rural speed limits, too.

Edited June 28, 2019 by DB

[Markus Becker]

Not just that road. Some of the ones in Normandy were reminding me of paved agricultural roads.

[Harold Jones]

Not just that road. Some of the ones in Normandy were reminding me of paved agricultural roads.

I swear that there was a time or two I thought we had turned onto a bicycle path.

[sunday]

Nah... The country lanes around Bovington were narrower, and with tall grass on the sides, too.

[Markus Becker]

 

Not just that road. Some of the ones in Normandy were reminding me of paved agricultural roads.

I swear that there was a time or two I thought we had turned onto a bicycle path.

 

 

We might have. I credit Dave's satnav.

[Harold Jones]

Nah... The country lanes around Bovington were narrower, and with tall grass on the sides, too.

You were not on the bridge avoidance part of the drive.

[shep854]

Sounds like a full-immersion tour...getting a sense of what the soldiers experienced, feeling your way around an unknown European countryside

[Stargrunt6]

 

 

Not just that road. Some of the ones in Normandy were reminding me of paved agricultural roads.

I swear that there was a time or two I thought we had turned onto a bicycle path.

 

 

We might have. I credit Dave's satnav.

 

 

Apple maps once told me, out in the sticks, something like "Drive 10 miles down this road, stop at this point, and walk through the woods for 500yds."

[shep854]

I'm a dinosaur--I like to have paper maps on hand.

Edited June 29, 2019 by shep854

[Markus Becker]

Did Dinos even exist when paper maps died out?