Day 6: 07/30/16 Fenton to Rochester, MI

We decided to use our Garmin Edge Touring to navigate today. I fired it up and chose the route to Rochester, so far so good, a list of directions materialized and we were off. Within a couple miles however, John suspected we were going in the wrong direction. Huddled under the canopy of Sharp's Funeral Home in the pouring rain, we check the Garmin course. It was 180 degrees off. Apparently, the original route started at a campground, went past our Warm Showers hosts and on to Rochester. Instead of directing us from where we actually were, it was sending us back to the campgrounds to begin, taking us through Fenton again and on to Rochester. To make matters worse, the storm was interfering with our signal, making Google Maps unavailable.

After a serious discussion that included topic such as, Why are we doing this? and Did you see the hotel in town?, we decided to soldier on. The folks in Sharp's Funeral home generously shared their WiFi, gave us hot coffee, and even printed a cue sheet (the same set of directions the Garmin was supposed to provide us with electronically. Grrr) Back out into the rain we ventured, certain it would let up shortly. If 5 hours later is shortly, we were right, otherwise, not so much.

I learned two things today: One, even though I appear to be, I am not so sweet that I melt in the rain. Two, I do not like the Garmin Edge Touring, not one bit. This is by far not the first time it has failed us. I am considering a relationship change from It's complicated  to dumped the darn thing. John is giving it one more chance. I wonder if he'll let me fling it into a swamp  wetlands area when it fails for its last time.

Tomorrow we are off to Algonac, the last Michigan city we will be in for quite a while. Yike.