Canadian lost couple via GPS

duh -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_missing_canadian_couple

On 5/11/2011, ps56k posted:

A really sad story, even though it's worthy of a Darwin Award.

The road from Wells to Jackpot (US 93) is prettry isolated, but it is
well paved and there's enough traffic that if you stopped, sonmeone
would see you preetty soon. It's still a bit scary for this former
resident of New England & NY...

A couple of years ago, traveling from Eureka CA to eastern Idaho
through SE Oregon and back, I used Streets and Trips to find routes.
They also involved Forest Service roads, but I can't tell you anything
about the roads because I didn't take them...

Even the main roads are a bit scary, worse than US 93[1], but at least
it was May and the weather was OK.

[1] I wasn't using my GPS on the way west from Burns, OR, and I missed
the turnoff to US 395 south, because it's so unnoticeable, whereas in
daylight going east, it had looked pretty big around 10 PM with a gas
station all it up. I can't guess what the other roads would have looked
like.

I had only gone about 10 mi too far before I thought I better stop to
look at the paper map :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)