I recently had the good fortune to take a driving trip through the mountains and coastline of Northern California (known as Alta California prior to the Mexican-American war and subsequent Mexican Cession of 1848 but that’s an entirely different story.)
For the first time, I had the opportunity to use a GPS Navigator. It was a Garmin with a 3D view of the 2D map. I could see the real roads stretching away from me in a virtual environment.
Driving truly became a game, or I should say the car became a toy, since I had no goal other than my final destination which I had input myself. I followed every road that caught my fancy, and I zoomed out on the GPS to see which way I might want to head. If I saw a winding street that looked interesting out the window, I drove on that one for a while. If I noticed an interesting arrangement of roads on the GPS, I went to check those out too. I also asked people which were the most interesting roads for someone with plenty of time.
I wasted a lot of gas.
Next time I’ll have to drive my pedal-powered green friendly earth hybrid efficient openSource proprietary vehicular thingamabobsticle.
Highway 9 from San Francisco (via Santa Clara) to Santa Cruz was incredible. Few other cars on the road, 60 mph through constantly winding angled curves and a view from a mountaintop with few railings. Fun!
I also went to my cousin’s wedding. Congratulations Vin and Loren. It was great to see everyone. 
译文:
在现实的基础上导航一个虚拟的世界
最近运气很好，我有机会驾车在加利福尼亚北部延山脉及海岸线旅游。（过去在墨西哥-美国战争前以及接下来墨西哥交割主权之后被称为阿尔塔加利福尼亚，但是那时候完全是不同的境况）
这是我第一次有机会可以使用GPS导航仪。它以三维的视角在二维的地图上进行导航。这让我能够在一个虚拟的世界对实际的道路情况有一个大致的草图概念。
现在驾驶变成了游戏，或者说是汽车变成了玩具，因为除了输入最终的目的地之外，我没有其他目标。我沿着每条想象出来的道路行驶，然后放大GPS上的画面去看那条路是我想继续前进的。如果我发现窗外有趣的环形线路，我会在那上面行驶一段时间再走。当然如果我发现GPS上定位出来的行驶线路安排很奇怪的花，我也会出去查看一下。我还会询问人们对于像我这种有很多时间用来驾驶旅游的人来说走什么路会比较有趣。
当然为此，我浪费了不少汽油。
下一次，我将会驾驶我那绿色环保节能的私人脚踏板行驶工具再来这里。
从旧金山（经过桑塔克拉拉）到桑塔克鲁兹的9号高速公路是令人难以置信的。路上几乎没有什么其他车辆，在连接的环形街角开足60马力不踩刹车，在没有栏杆的山顶远眺。真令人兴奋！
我也去了堂弟的婚礼。恭喜你们文跟劳伦。很高兴能见到大家。:)