Originally Posted by
tomhuber2003
I did that once -- DRIVING!
I was flying into ROC but had to drive to Elmira (100 miles or so). Well, one time going back to ROC I programmed my GPS to Rochester and off I went (I had only driven 3 or 4 times so I didn't know the area and all of mid NY looks the same). After about 2 hours I was thinking "I should be seeing Genesee signs about now..."
I looked at my GPS and it said I had 45 hours left or something -- programmed for Rochester MIN!!
I called the airline,l got a later flight (and a laugh) and turned the damn car around -- all told 5 hours driving.
Same sort of thing happened to a friend of ours. They have 2 homes - one in Austin TX and one in Broomfield CO. They switch the location of "home" when they switch homes but this time she forgot. She was outside of Austin in a location she was not familiar so she hit home on the GPS. About 3/4 hours later, she realized that she was headed north toward Colorado.
At least it was not 5 hours.
Along the same lines, there is a Sydney Australia and a Sydney Canada. I have heard stories about people booking plane trips to the wrong Sydney.
DON