We only seem to get lost in OHIO hio hio hio...... We had the next exit syndrome.
Started off getting directions from Google Maps for the Toledo Classic Tournament. We decided to come down the night before because it was a 5 hour drive from our igloo up here and didn't want to take a chance on getting stuck at the border or what have and be late for our fist game (Ya, the game that the other team ended up not showing up to and forfeiting.... huh. they owe me $100 bucks). Well, needless to say, google maps sent us on a wild goose chase trying to find our hotel in Holland. After about 50 minutes, we managed to get to it only to find out that had we stayed on the highway for one more exit, voila, we would have hit it right on the head. Stayed up until 2:00 am to make sure that the others who decided to come down that night made it in and called the rest of the team to tell them that the directions I sent them where wrong.
Trip two to Ohio.... Beautiful Ashtabula.
Well, after the last fiasco, we decided not only to look up directions from Google maps but Map quest and yes Microsoft live maps. After carefully verifying that all 3 mapped the same directions I again sent them out to the team. We again headed off on our journey the night before hoping to take an easy ride and maybe have a nice meal (Gotta Love Quacker Steak and Lube Erie PA). Well, after the nice meal we took our appropriate exit and turn off of that exit and landed in the middle of no where. 2 1/2 hours of driving around in the pitch dark, no street lights, no pay phones, heck, no businesses to stop at. At last we finally saw another vehicle. Taking no more chances and not wanting to run out of gas, I turned on my 4 ways, open up the van windows, waiving our arms, honking the horn and flashing the lights, this wonderful woman pulled over to our aid. I guess she figured that the freaks with the painted graffiti team van and a waving Canadian Flag flapping at the back couldn't have been that scarey. We showed her the maps, the name of the hotel and where we where going. She looked at us and started to laugh. Needless to say, we had to spend another 35 minutes to get back to where we cut off and take yes, take the next exit off of the highway and by gosh what was standing right there but our hotel. The hotel clerk just shook his head and said that nobody can map their area. Was up late again that night calling everyone to tell them to ignor my directions and to take the next exit.
Next tournament, I handed them the address of the hotel and parks and said your on your own. :
