GPS eradicates age-old question

Random City, STATE—-For decades, family road trips have been been plagued with random and frequent outbursts of, “Are we there yet?”  If you have multiple children it often happens in stereo or even Dolby Digital surround sound.  All sense of time seems to blow out the open windows as impatient parents reply, “We still have a long way.  Don’t ask again for a couple more hours” only to be met with another chorus in less than 5 minutes. 

When Garmin and TomTom made GPS technology available to the general population, they simply thought they were helping people find their way.  Little did they know that the palm-sized, 8 oz. electronic device would change family vacations forever.  With large, easy-to-read displays that update estimated arrival time and time to destination, parents can now defer whining children to the LCD display hanging from the windshield. 

Now the big question is how long before we start telling stories that go something like this…

“When I was a kid, we drove to places without any idea where we were going.  Sometimes we used these paper things called maps and we always had to ask, ‘Are we there yet?'”