I wish I could say I only do this when we travel, but I learned this trick when the boys were babies and I got so scatterbrained that I would lose the “Silver bus” everywhere we went. Thank you to my handy smartphone (I swear this is the most mom-friendly invention of all time), I just take a picture of the landmark we’re parked next to (thankfully at Pacific Place they’re well marked) and then if I do misplace my vehicle I have an easy clue. I don’t have to remember where a parking slip is, or write down anything, I have picture proof. This is my all-time best travel tip as I’ve never lost my car since I have had an iPhone.
On trips this is especially useful because when I’m in an unfamiliar place, with an unfamiliar vehicle, the last thing I want to do is waste my precious travel time looking for my car that was parked next to a palm tree, or was it a banana bush, and what did my vehicle look like again? And come to think of it, I don’t think I’d be able to remember my license plate number any more either. Do you have an all-time favorite travel tip to share?
I do the same thing! The other night I was in Downtown Denver by myself. I had to park in a parking garage and walk a couple of blocks to my dinner destination. I was so worried I wouldn’t find my way back to my car that I took pictures with my phone the whole way to my destination…my own version of breadcrumbs!
Awesome:) Thank goodness for technology. Do you know how many times I’ve been lost (even with maps!) before GPS? Yay for virtual breadcrumbs!
Ha! Great title. My hubby always takes a picture of our parking spot number. Way back when I was a kid, my parents forgot where they parked in the enormous Disneyland parking lot. The attendants asked my parents what time they got there and were able to pinpoint a section of the parking lot to search. They would have loved a smartphone picture back then.
I had never thought of taking a picture of the location in a parking lot. Great idea! Thanks!
Great title-LMFAO. You’re cool.
What a brilliant idea!!
Yep, I do this too. Couldn’t live without out it! I love the creative title, although if that song is permanently stuck in my brain today, I am blaming you! 🙂
I do the same thing! I swear, I don’t know how I ever managed to function before smartphones! 🙂