Well, two days off and now I’m back at it.
It was semi-productive. I did end up getting something that was either allergies or a slight sinus infection, but I think I’m mostly over it now.
The wife had a doctor’s appointment in a town about an hour and a half away. It was a rather frustrating experience, at least as far as navigation goes.
The medical building was within a complex of medical buildings, so using the GPS to find it was rather tricky. We found the place but we had some trouble with parking. The facility had a parking garage, and where there’s nothing wrong with that, but having it packed to the gills was a problem. We were on time for her appointment up until the time we got to the parking garage. Then we got in a long line of cars, all trying to find a place to park. Further delays came as people leaving vacated their parking spaces and the cars ahead of us tried to maneuver into the empty slots. We finally got a spot on the very top floor.
We went to enter the building and they had no signs anywhere to indicate which of the three buildings connected to the garage would get us to where we needed to go. We had to ask one of the golf cart shuttle drivers where to go. He told us we had to go down a level then go to a walkway at the end of the level to get to the building we needed.
We got into the building and managed to find our way to her appointment. We ended up being only fifteen minutes late.
After the appointment things didn’t improve. The doctor told us that when we exited we needed to push the ‘M’ button in the elevator. We did and that took us to the main floor. That wasn’t where we had come in. Again, they had no signage to tell you where you are in the building or how to get where you need to go. We had to ask a security person how to get back to the parking garage, which took us back through the building, to a different set of elevators, and finally back to the floor of parking garage where we could get to the car.
When we left the garage we had to stop at the booth to pay. There was no place to get a ticket when we entered. It seems we were supposed to go through a security checkpoint or something on the way in, even though there weren’t any. They had to let us out, if for no other reason than there was a line of cars behind us.
Once we got out we had to try to find our way back to the highway. Somehow we were always ending up in left turn only lanes, since they had no signs to that effect anywhere and you only find out when you finally get to the intersection. There was one section of road that merged unexpectedly into another section of road, with very bad visibility to see if any cars are coming from the merging lane.
We finally found our way to the highway and headed back home. I’m not enamored of that town and loathe to return unless they do something to improve navigation around there.
The wife calls such trips ‘adventures’. I’d say they are more validations of what Louis L’amour said – ‘Adventure is just a romantic word for trouble.’
I hope all is going well for you, my Hordeling.
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