batman wrote on 06/06/18 at 21:38:57: It's a wonder how anybody ever traveled anywhere before GPS.
It's no more a wonder than how anyone got decent information on fixing their bikes before the interwebs.
I'd rather be riding than wrenching, but sometimes work needs to be done. However I'd much rather be riding than trying to navigate with a shite map. Or discovering that the country road marked on the map is in fact a dirt track and then needing to suddenly find my way around it.
I'll be going bush in a few months, I'll have paper topo maps as well as a compass but I'll hopefully not be needing it as I'll be doing this with a gps. Believe me, (or not) when I say a good handheld gps makes this short life we get to live, a darn sight more fun.
As for 'getting lost', well you can get lost better with an auto routing gps, you simply set it to where you want to be and ignore the directions. Go wherever you like, it will keep re routing and you can ignore it to your heart's content, then when you've had enough you follow it again.
If you discover an interesting spot or road, you can mark it and be able to get right back to it. You can plan the most interesting roads to ride, check them out on google earth that there's no funny business, and then send them to the gps. And believe it or not but once you've done that, you're not legally obliged to use it. You can actually turn the gps off if you like.