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@Peanut I never got lost back where I came from, whether city, country, hiking, places I'd never been before, never got lost. I may have gotten twisty tailed around, but I was good to go and back on track within a couple minutes of realizing an error. If I was with someone else making the error I could get us quickly back on track, if they'd just listen! lol
I moved to TX and get lost mostly in the snarls of highways, cities, etc. It's not really that I get lost as it is that I do not have the same sense of direction here that I had when I lived back east. Back east I didn't rely on clues from the environment so much as a feel of which direction i should be going.
What do you make of that? Do you think some people have an innate ability to not get lost? Or taken out of the element that you know, you may have a hard time finding that inner sense of direction? I'm really curious about others' thoughtful, scientific opinions on this topic.
I was going to tag this on to the end of a post in another thread where you were talking about looking for clues in the environment to help you determine which way you needed to go, but it wasn't a thread about being lost, it was about herbs.
One time when in my early 20s and out in the woods and mountains at night with my brothers, my NH, his brothers and 3 or 4 other guys, we got lost. There was a new moon so it was pitch black, couldn't see a thing. A few ended up in the swampy pond (HAHA -- idiots), arguing. My brothers ended up leading the way out, they'd been there before.
You don't get lost, though, do you?
I moved to TX and get lost mostly in the snarls of highways, cities, etc. It's not really that I get lost as it is that I do not have the same sense of direction here that I had when I lived back east. Back east I didn't rely on clues from the environment so much as a feel of which direction i should be going.
What do you make of that? Do you think some people have an innate ability to not get lost? Or taken out of the element that you know, you may have a hard time finding that inner sense of direction? I'm really curious about others' thoughtful, scientific opinions on this topic.
I was going to tag this on to the end of a post in another thread where you were talking about looking for clues in the environment to help you determine which way you needed to go, but it wasn't a thread about being lost, it was about herbs.
One time when in my early 20s and out in the woods and mountains at night with my brothers, my NH, his brothers and 3 or 4 other guys, we got lost. There was a new moon so it was pitch black, couldn't see a thing. A few ended up in the swampy pond (HAHA -- idiots), arguing. My brothers ended up leading the way out, they'd been there before.
You don't get lost, though, do you?