Day 27: literal nightmare
Gonna keep this part short
Started out the day headed toward the Tunnel of Trees. It wasn't as good as I was expecting, though I might've just been ready to go home. Still very pretty, and I imagine the fall would make it stunning.
Not much else until I neared the Canadian border. Now you may recognize that as a problem with the ongoing pandemic. So did I. So you can imagine how frustrating it was too find out that, even though I explicitly picked a different route, Google Maps decided to route me through Canada. This put me 2 hours out of my way. The route was 3 hours faster than the route I needed to take, therefore for the next 3 hours it insisted on notifying me very frequently that there was a faster route, sometimes every 5 minutes.
Now, you may think that's super inconvenient and annoying, and it is. Except it's not just a notification. Google Maps
actively reroutes you against your will, and requires your input to
not reroute you. This means that I would need to tell it not to reroute me, sometimes every couple minutes.
You would think that, as having a passport isn't a given, there would be some option to force it to avoid crossing country borders. You would think there's an option to force a route, in case there's a pre-planned trip.
But that's not even the beginning of it.
My new route dropped me on the interstate going straight through Detroit, home of roads that look like an acne-prone preteen's face. Heavy construction restricted the interstate to a single, pock-marked lane. Now, my gas light went on just before Detroit, and I wanted to get some before I was out of the city and didn't know when my next fill-up would come.
Unfortunately, when I got off the exit, the street light was out. Didn't think anything of it until I got to the gas station and all the lights are out. Pull up and there's no power anywhere, in fact. I get back in the interstate, much to the protest of my GPS, still redirecting me back to Canada.
Next exit, same thing. Except now, the turn arounds are on opposite sides of the roads, emergency vehicles are flying around trying to fix the power outage, and now I've missed the "No thanks" button and hit the "accept new destination" button and it just pushed me over the edge into full meltdown mode.
Anyway, I got gas, got some Burger King, and went to sleep. Fucking awful.