<A. You can't get lost on roads in the US.  Sooner or later you will find
some landmark that will tell you where you are>

Ummmmm, yeah at $4.00/gallon gas you can always just drive around  aimlessly til you figure out where you are, good plan. I have to come down on the side of GPS, I bought one earlier this year and I love it, and I am a Luddite. I used it this year going to Everybus, since I took a different route that brought me into Greensboro in a way that I wasn't familiar with, and it took me right to Hagan Stone Park. The only time it "failed" me was going to friends house in Dale City, Virginia-of course the GPS had no way of knowing one of the roads had collapsed into a huge sink hole a couple of days earlier.    Jeff