Flutterby™! : Why TomTom Rocks

We've had a TomTom (720) for a couple of months now, overall it's been one of the best technology purchases I've made. Today it proved itself above and beyond "useful". We were hungry for an early lunch traveling back from Dauphin Island Alabama, and pulled off at generic exit #96, near Evergreen Alabama. You know the exit, Waffle House, McDonalds, etc.. I clicked 'Find Resturants near our location" and one of the listings was 'Beacon, The Restaraunt 2.x miles' - we zig-zag towards town and following TomTom's lead find this odd plain place with a big parking lot. It's right after 11am on a Sunday and they just opened. Walking in, to the right are three long rows of tables, all together like 3 big tables. To the left is a high counter of food warmers, with two older black women primping the food line. Place smells like fried chicken and bacon grease. Nancy, her parents visiting from Alaska and I roll the dice and call "lunch". Meat and 3+, drinks and desert for four for $32.00. The food: incredible. Best lima beans and cornbread stuffing I've had in my life. Nancy had 2nds of the lima beans for dessert, and neither of use normally like lima beans. Right after we sat down, Church must have let out....they started coming in. For a while I thought we would be the only 'pale' people in the place, but soon enough it became quite an interesting mix of a crowd. There is something glorious about the way older black women get dressed for Church, matching hats, scarves, shoes.. and attitude (good, righteous and friendly).

TomTom may enable, yea encourage, the rediscovery of the wonderful crooks and crannies of America.