EDC compass

[Mortblanc]

Not sure if I have offered this story before, but back i the 1990s my Dad was suffering from a series of incidents where he was disoriented and had to ask directions to get home inside the small town where he had resided for 30 years. He was one of those people that navigate by landmark and the town was going through sudden and massive growth and rebuilding with even large strip malls disappearing seemingly over night.

He was not suffering dementia, simply confused due to the changes in his world that he could not keep up with. He had never been real good at navigating about anyway and would get frustrated over being turned around when he was 30! At 70 it was even worse.

We debated taking the car keys as a family, but realized that was not the answer. He was still sane and alert, he just got lost between Walmart and home. After all, he had experienced four changes in the Walmart location in that town since he had moved there.

My youngest brother went to his vehicle and unplugged the portable GPS unit and placed it in the dash of my Father's car. All he had to do was push the button labeled HOME and the lady in the GPS box would give him directions to get back home.

He was never afraid of technology and took to the new system with ease. He was able to get around on his own until he passed at age 80.

Another +1 for the modern GPS system!

Stores, theaters, shopping malls, mechanics, I have all that type information plugged into my smart phone GPS and the vehicle GPS has record of every important destination I have traveled in the past 5 years.

No I do not care if the government seizes it and has record that I went to the movies on 4, June, 2015, kr that I was camping in the national forest last summer. Neither am I worried that EMP will shut the system down.

Fact is that if we were to suffer an EMP attack the compass needles would be demagnetized by the event and as useless as a GPS! That is a factor no one ever mentions when doing the compass vs. GPS thing.