Kate and George strongly advised us yesterday to scope out the race start for Swamp Branch the night before. I shrugged it off, relying on the GPS map coordinates and figuring it’d all be fine.<\/p>\n
Turns out, it was not fine.<\/p>\n
Kate and George also warned us that at night, winding our way through the narrow lane road, it’d feel more like Deliverance than perhaps we’d like.<\/p>\n
Turns out, the only thing missing was banjo music this morning.<\/p>\n
The GPS had me in the middle of a road… nowhere near the start line. I figured I’d just punch in the alternate address they had listed on the website… except I had no cell signal and no GPS. I am always astonished that there are large swaths of dead zones in the United States of America. What in the name of Huawei are we doing? But it happens… and frankly if Snake Plissken did destroy all the technology with the touch of a button a la Escape from LA, well, we’d have to survive without GPS anyway.<\/p>\n