do not panic

When you're lost it's vital to not panic. So, when I'm trying to get home from Kings Park -- I do not panic.

I've done this trip several times. With varying degrees of lost-ness. Leave the cafe, follow the track to the main road. Cross the footbridge, walk past the hospital, get to G Block, catch the bus. Easy.

I leave the cafe and fail to find the track. Is it to the left or the right? I go left, a long way, no track. Return, walk past where I started. Find a track.

The track reaches the main road... no bridge. It's the wrong track. No worries, I find the main road. No sign of the footbridge. I cross at traffic lights.

I can see the hospital that I need to pass. I can't see a footpath... I cross various minor roads, carefully, waving my white stick in a defensive fashion.

No sign of G Block. Not to worry, I can follow a road. Carefully. Finally, a bus stop.

Not my usual stop but... it lists the bus that I want.

I use Google Maps, it says -- walk three minutes to a bus stop. But I am already at a bus stop?

I uninstall Maps and wait for the bus, they come every ten minutes.

The bus arrives, no worries, it takes me to nearly the end of our road.

I know to press the stop button when I see the primary school. Then cross the very busy road, head away... and work out where exactly I am. No worries.

I must say, bus drivers and passengers are very helpful.

Yes, I'm lost for most of the journey. But logic and memory tell me which way to go.

It's a lot less comfortable when I'm in a new location with no memory to guide me.

So: close, but no panic :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

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