A Step Behind the Latest Technology

I always seem to be a step behind.

Call me Johnny-come-lately.

When everyone else was wearing Gore-Tex, I was still in leather and wool. When all my friends were listening to cassettes, I was rockin’ out to eight-tracks.

While planning a trip last week to North Dakota to get a boat repaired, I sought directions online to the location of Swenson Marine in Bismarck. As I was reaching for a pen and notebook to copy the information from my laptop, a brilliant thought struck me; take a picture with my phone.

The directions were simple once I reached the interstate: Follow I-94 to Bismarck and take...