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[Pamela]

Well, it seems that Orf and I are having a conversation about the navigation system.

I moved out to Northern California three years ago to marry my high school sweetheart. Naturally, I needed to work as well. My vocation is writing marketing articles about luxury real estate - houses and estates that are impossibly expensive for us lowly folk.

San Francisco's Bay Area is comprised of San Francisco County, San Mateo County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County, Solano County, Santa Cruz County, Marin County and according to some stretches as far north as Napa County and Sonoma County and as far south as SAnta Cruz and Monterrey County. It is a huge geographic area with many connecting main highways and bridges, including the gorgeous Golden Gate Bridge, which is about 25 miles south of where we live in Novato, Marin County. Marin is where the hot tub was born. It also served as home to a lot of musical artists, including the Grateful Dead.

Imagine me, fresh from South Florida where I had three counties to deal with most of the time and highways that run a straight shot north south east and west (easy to get around and difficult to get lost) coming out here. Yikes! Thank God for the nav system. Without it, I'd have been late for countless appointments, wasted tons of gas and frazzled my nerves to a fairthewell.

But, the navigation system that came with the car is rife with problems. When I head out to East Bay area towards Oakland Airport, it wants to send me to downtown San Francisco. It has a lot of mistakes in that part of the area and it has misled me a number of times. It also doesn't have some of the newer developments that have been built in recent years. So, we shall see...we plan to move to Puerto Rico, where we lived and met in school way back in 1963 for our retirement in a couple of years, so we may just do with the system we have.

We heard about the Aussie cyclone. Hope all's on the mend after that horror. We've got experience dealing with those storms!