We are off on a Grand Adventure

My newly retired husband and I have decided to take a cross country trip to visit the Grand Canyon.  The Foreign Exchange student we have had for the past five summers will be joining us in Las Vegas as we do the Grand Circle.  We leave tomorrow at 5AM, so I will leave you with this poem, which my husband would totally agree with:

I have a little GPS
I’ve had it all my life
It’s better than the normal ones
My GPS is my wife

It gives me full instructions
Especially how to drive
“It’s thirty miles an hour”, it says
“You’re doing thirty five”

It tells me when to stop and start
And when to use the brake
And tells me that it’s never ever
Safe to overtake

It tells me when a light is red
And when it goes to green
It seems to know instinctively
Just when to intervene

It lists the vehicles just in front
And all those to the rear
And taking this into account
It specifies my gear.

I’m sure no other driver
Has so helpful a device
For when we leave and lock the car
It still gives its advice

It fills me up with counseling
Each journey’s pretty fraught
So why don’t I exchange it
And get a quieter sort?

Ah well, you see, it cleans the house,
makes sure I’m properly fed, it
washes all my shirts and things and –
keeps me warm in bed!

Despite all these advantages
And my tendency to scoff,
I do wish that once in a while
I could turn the darned thing off.

Attributed to Motley Fool, 2013