We never drove a car into a swamp because our Rand McNally told us to, I’ll tell you that much.” You can’t be complacent with an atlas, not like those people who put all their trust in a GPS. “Or a road on the map that didn’t technically exist. “Sometimes there were missing roads,” he admits. “GPS can’t give me that.”ĭalbis and his wife, who are both retired and living in Oak Park, Ill., have crisscrossed the nation several times, for both family vacations and work trips, and they’ve done it all with the only atlas brand he trusts - even when that atlas has been wrong. “I want to open up an atlas and say, ‘Oh, here’s Colorado, here’s Route 26, this is where I want to go,’ ” he says. Peter Dalbis has been alive for 76 years, and at least 50 of those were spent following directions in Rand McNally road atlases.ĭalbis didn’t stop using paper atlases when online competitors like MapQuest and Yahoo Maps came into vogue in the late ’90s, and he remains a stalwart Rand McNally supporter even in an era when almost everyone has a GPS device in their back pocket.
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