Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 11, 2023

I have no problem using modern tools to make retro things work well. I don’t even see the irony: Tools are tools, and I use the ones I find useful.

There’s only so much she could do. Just try finding a paper fold-up map these days.

I call maps “war charts” for making a trip.

A play with words?

A Rand McNally folded paper U.S. map can be found on Amazon for guess how much?

Has the Apple Maps app improved?

So, totally pointless.

Why not? Google Map is just like a paper map except that it’s on a screen.

Is the pretzel on his shirt a reference to her twisted logic?

If you really want to go retro, ditch the car and ford rivers with your oxen-pulled cart.

If it were totally retro, little girl, they’d have had you cooking and cleaning and looking after the even littler ones all day long.

My dungeon master makes her own maps, because the ones for her world aren’t available on line.

I drove a delivery truck in the 1980s and a Thomas Guide was a Godsend, nowadays I have both Google Maps and Waze.

I order a road map from the state, they send it free.

Retro in the 21st Century isn’t what we would think.

There is research indicating that the act of manually planning a route on a map (vs. just letting the GPS tells you where to go) exercises parts of the brain that make and access memories. So planning a route may help stave off dementia. Something for us old guys to keep in mind.

I haven’t looked in a long time, but I used to get county maps at gas stations if I was travelling and then make strip maps in a notebook about how to get to the destination.I don’t know if they carry maps any more, but I think AAA locations still have them.