I share your pain, my wife is the picture you see in the dictionary when you look up "directionally challenged". We have been here a day or so over two weeks, live in St Charles, where things are relatively simple yet and if we head any direction but to the Colony shopping center (where there is a ladies clothing store) on 466A she does not have the foggiest idea. She has started taking notes, even drove a time or two with my navigation and direction, but we haven't broken the code on how to get over this. Having said that about the shopping center on 466A, she can't diffeerentiate between 466 and 466A quite yet. I know we'll overcome this, but the wife that drove me everywhere I went in Ohio suddenly is the passenger. To answer the GPS portion of your question. It is very sporadic just yet and the map folks are a little behind, though it varies, if you compare google maps, mapquest, and others you'll see that they are not quite up to speed with the new areas just north of 466A and west of Buena Vista. I don't think it matters which GPS unit you have, as far as I know Navteq does all of the mapping. I have a Magellan GPS andf when I turn off of Bailey Trail I turn into a field. When we were doing our prospecting last year and before we found a GPS very helpful in the established areas. I think it is Mapquest that has our srteets only, the remainder being sand. We're still unpacking boxes, and all of those things, so in a week or so we are going to have to intensify our navigation 101 efforts. I'm working on some of the lesser traveled roads just out side of the villages - like to never found the license branch yesterday, seems like the little blue sign eluded both of us a time or two and I ended up plugging it in to GPS and "Presto" there it was. Avoid lines for that and make an appointment over the internet in Lady lake officve - just a suggestion that may herlp a bit..
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