Lost in NJ

We attended a birthday party at a buffet restaurant in East Hanover, NJ this afternoon. We got there in 30 minutes flat and spent an additional hour looking for the restaurant.

4 phone calls later, we realized that we were in the wrong city. Argh! Somehow, while following the GPS, we wound up in the next town - Morris Plains.

By then, I was starting to get cranky due to hunger. Fortunately - for hubby - I was the one who had keyed in the address or he wouldn't hear the end of it. So when we finally got to the restaurant, we compared notes with other friends who had used their GPSs and had not had problems. Turns out that in our GPS unit, when I keyed in the restaurant's address

240 Hwy 10, 07693

this brought us to Morris Plains. Later, after getting lost and hubby keyed in the address again, it came up as

240 State Route 10, East Hanover 07693

Note that both State Route 10 and Hwy 10 referred to the same road, just different cities. Note also that both of our addresses refer to the same zip code.

Eto pa, while comparing the addresses with our friends' GPSs (they all had the same brand), their addresses came out like this:

240 Hwy 10, East Hanover 07693

Anyway, this just goes to show that we shouldn't really trust everything to the GPS, always check the area out first so you have an idea of where you're supposed to go.