I’ll admit that our household navigator is quite partial to our big Rand McNally atlas over the iPhone or iPad maps; however it also resembles a multi file folder more than an atlas much of the time, since as we find newspaper or magazine articles
about interesting destinations they get clipped and inserted into the appropriate state pages.
Excellent! I've done that but get into trouble when it all falls on the car floor so I've taken to taking it elsewhere. But great idea.
She has a large briefcase which serves as the navigator’s station while doing this. If we ever set up the RV we want to build, she’s getting a proper pull-out desk at her seat.
I wonder if there are travellers in Charted Space who trust the computers not a bit and patiently work out their astrogration problems by hand as well. Just in case.
Spend the week in jump calculating the next one! That would be a great ‘colorful’ NPC to have handy. (also a wonderful way to unnerve the PC’s “Wait you DON’T use the computer?” as the slightly mad-looking captain sits in the middle of a mass of scribbled-on
papers….and now they’re (in the words or Rorschach) ‘locked in with him’….)
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[1] I'm aware that when I write "way west" which for us is a *long* 5 or 6 hour journey (and any further you'd fall off the end of England), those West of the Atlantic are probably thinking, "hah! he hasn't even got started. Daughter lives virtually next
door."
“The difference between England and the United States is that in England a hundred miles is a long way, and in the US a hundred years is a long time” Probably read that here on this list :-)