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Jul. 5th, 2008 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancingyelback in san francisco, hooray! i love traveling, but it's nice to be home, too, especially after being in transit for insane amounts of time. i have so many stories and pictures, but no energy to deal with any of it yet. let me share a story about israel to tide you over.
cin and i spent a day and a half in jerusalem, staying at the house of relatively random people who my parents met a year ago on their trip in norway. getting to jerusalem was an adventure. we borrowed my aunt's car and gps, which was great, except the maps on the gps are about 2 years old, which in israel is really outdated, given that there's basically permanent construction. we eventually made it to the people's house (with a few phone calls to them and some moments of panic on the part of both us and the gps). on the way back to tel aviv (i'll post more about jerusalem itself later), we asked the people for the best way to get to the freeway, since getting from the freeway to their house was such a problem. they told us about this brand new overpass thing and told us how to get there, and to ignore our gps until we were on the freeway. we turned it on, anyways, but were prepared to not listen to it. now, when the gps got confused, it would think about things for a few moments and then say, somewhat annoyed, "route recalculation" and rethink things. this time, though, when we got onto the overpass, the gps got very quiet, and, after a minute or so, said to us, "make u-turn where possible!" hee! and then it gave up on us entirely, assumed we were either driving through a forest or flying, showed our location in the middle of nowhere on its map, and sulked in silence until we got to a stretch of freeway it recognized, at which point it ordered us, with some relief, to drive 37 km. we'd never had id tell us to make a u-turn before! it was just so confused and offended, the poor thing!
anyhow, i'm off to...i dunno, read or something, since i'm pretty lethargic. i'm in sf 'till the 14th, so hopefully, i'll get to see lots of you before i go back to tucson! more posts and a ton of pictures to come soon!
cin and i spent a day and a half in jerusalem, staying at the house of relatively random people who my parents met a year ago on their trip in norway. getting to jerusalem was an adventure. we borrowed my aunt's car and gps, which was great, except the maps on the gps are about 2 years old, which in israel is really outdated, given that there's basically permanent construction. we eventually made it to the people's house (with a few phone calls to them and some moments of panic on the part of both us and the gps). on the way back to tel aviv (i'll post more about jerusalem itself later), we asked the people for the best way to get to the freeway, since getting from the freeway to their house was such a problem. they told us about this brand new overpass thing and told us how to get there, and to ignore our gps until we were on the freeway. we turned it on, anyways, but were prepared to not listen to it. now, when the gps got confused, it would think about things for a few moments and then say, somewhat annoyed, "route recalculation" and rethink things. this time, though, when we got onto the overpass, the gps got very quiet, and, after a minute or so, said to us, "make u-turn where possible!" hee! and then it gave up on us entirely, assumed we were either driving through a forest or flying, showed our location in the middle of nowhere on its map, and sulked in silence until we got to a stretch of freeway it recognized, at which point it ordered us, with some relief, to drive 37 km. we'd never had id tell us to make a u-turn before! it was just so confused and offended, the poor thing!
anyhow, i'm off to...i dunno, read or something, since i'm pretty lethargic. i'm in sf 'till the 14th, so hopefully, i'll get to see lots of you before i go back to tucson! more posts and a ton of pictures to come soon!
