Originally Posted by
banerjek
I don't use the battery powered system either. I simply get lost -- as if that's so bad

Well, that works too!
I've often gone out without maps too. One of my best centuries was completely accidental. I just started riding, and turned here, and turned there, and looked at this, and looked at that, and got a bit lost a couple times, and eventually made my way back home having completed 161 km.