Compass Navigator Gifts

Orienteering 101

'We all need direction . . . '

The fate of the emigrant

"Some Rain Forest this is..."

'Are you sure that's the right map?'

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"Well, isn't that embarrassing."

"I think I've figured out why we can't find the marina."

'I love our hideaway. I only wish we could find it.'

Continuing education.

'Are we there yet?'

'We might make more progress if we try working as a team.'

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a MAP, actually."

The Fast Lane.

'AHH, here it is! At the next intersection, turn left, then cough, following that, turn right, then cough...' WHEN DOCTORS NAVIGATE.

"I'm not sure you'll want to know this."

'When I was a Scout, we had to blaze trails without sticky notes.'

"I am not asking for directions."

Battery Lighthouse

'He refuses to leave without the tree and their son.'

Titanic: How's my steering.

"I'm sure he said to meet him near the cactus."

University Cafeteria. The first semester of college is tough. I'm not taking geography because I couldn't find the classroom on the map. I'm way behind on my archeology assignments. I'm buried and need to dig my way out. And everybody in political science lies and cheats to get ahead. How are you doing in statistics? I think I'm doing very well! My test scores are hugely below the class median. I should probably learn what that means.

Fishing direction sign.

"For pity's sake, George - stop tooting and ask for directions!"

"Yeah, I have a GPS, but I have no idea where 120 degrees longitude and 80 degrees latitude is."

'I told you not to rely on the sat-nav.'

'The landscape is continually shifting Son, so you have to learn to navigate by the Sun and the stars...'

"According to the map, we should be nearing the North Pole, but something tells me we’ve been reading the map upside down."

"Perhaps you wouln't have declared so many places 'worth a detour' if you'd held the map right way up!"

'Listen up troop. We're going on a treasure hunt.'

I can hear growling, but I can't see the bear.

"With the benefit of hindsight, I’d say no, Ed, it wasn’t ‘funny’ letting him steer the boat!"

'So much for your internal compass.'

"A storm rages from the East - tell the men to get below and snuggle up for movie night."