I was excited to try out this application because I have had a number of long solo drives recently and looking down at my Google Maps can not possibly be as safe as hearing a voice tell me to “prepare to exit from the left on Interstate 84”. Better yet, the MapQuest app is free, unlike some $40 apps that came out previously on the iPhone. This is a feature that Google has reserved for the Android operating system. Unlike the Google iPhone app the MapQuest app provids turn by turn directions. MapQuest was the first internet mapping system that I used with any regularity. I was excited to find that MapQuest had released a new app to compete with the Google Maps application on the iPhone. I was reminded of this family story recently as I tried out the new MapQuest iPhone app with turn by turn directions. My uncle’s directions were poor directions. The interstates were new and so my father did not know any better and took my uncle’s directions. You certainly don’t want to be driving on the interstate pulling a trailer”. My uncle Fritz advised my dad, “whatever you do, stay off the interstates. In 1958 my parents packed up their new baby (my older brother) and moved from Minnesota to Ohio, pulling a U-Haul trailer.
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