"A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it." ~Cullen Hightower
Someone asked me this past weekend "How can you be so positive about everything?" to which I responded as I always do, "How can you not be!" The conversation went silent but not awkwardly so, as my sister-in-law mulled this over for a bit.
We were headed to the Casino which was over 2 hours from our home and in another Province. Neither of us had traveled the road before and so for good measure, we brought along two GPS systems and we both had cell phones. Mine being a smart phone also had access to Google's Latitude and was also equipped with a GPS system. Overkill? Yes, perhaps, but you have to understand that when I and my sister-in-law do things together, more often than not, even without trying, we can get ourselves into some pretty interesting, if not laughable situations. We decided we didn't want to take any chances getting lost and wandering around for ridiculous amounts of time trying to figure our way to or from a location we'd never been to before.
Not even 20 minutes into the trip back we realized we weren't headed in the same direction we'd taken to arrive at our destination. As the road grew less even and began to narrow considerably our "oh, oh" meters were trying to process whether or not we should turn around and go back to the ski village we'd just left and try our departure again. My sister-in-law's GPS was apparently malfunctioning and although I asked if she wanted to use mine she declined.
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