Originally Posted by
seypat
Why do you need a GPS for that? Look at a map, route your ride and go for it. Back in the day before electronics, somehow people got by. I'm assuming you can read road signs?
You don't even need that. You can just pick roads and see where they take you.
I've gotten seriously lost only once in my life using this method. I was so disoriented that I didn't even know which direction my home was. So I just asked some guy in a small town if he could point in the general direction of my town. He was pretty shocked when I was happy to hear I was only 40-45 miles away.