InfoTart

This afternoon, I hopped in my car and took the Pike out towards Worcester. My destination: Deja Brew, this cool “brew your own beer” place somewhere on Rte. 9 in Shrewsbury. I was meeting up with some buddies who had brewed up a few batched of beer there last year, but this was my first time going there and somehow I got lost.

Deja Brew is located on Rte 9 near Rte. 140, so I thought, “Hey, I’ll get off the Pike at the Rte. 140 exit.” What I didn’t know is that there is no Rte. 140 exit! Oops…

So I got off at the nearest exit, knowing that Rte. 9 was north somewhere. So I pulled over, pulled out my spanky new GPS receiver, Bluetooth connected it to my phone, and then launched Google Maps and clicked on the button for “my location”. (Thank goodness for an unlimited data plan!)

Within maybe 2 minutes, I’d figured out how to get where I needed to go and got back on the road and I was only 5 minutes late. And since I’m a guy, I was deeply relieved that I didn’t have to ask a random gas station attendant how to get there. 

The funny thing is that I had to use the Google Maps + GPS wonder duo again later this evening. See, I didn’t discover that there is no intersection for the Pike and Rte 140 until I was driving home. When I drove under the Pike, I figured there was a problem… So I pulled over again, and figured out how to get back on the Pike to Boston. *whew!*