Learn Street names in my city

I recently moved to a different part of Oakland which has provided me with plenty of opprotunities to discover new routes to old haunts (read: I’ve been getting lost again a lot lately).

The new neighborhood and new place are great. I’m really happy that I did this, even if it did totally take over my life for the last month and a half. I’m still unpacking, still organizing, and still a little dishelved but it feels good and I am happy about it.

I managed to learn most important streets in LA, Hollywood, the beaches… even Compton. I never have to use maps anymore. Thank God, because I detest them. ;)

We took a wrong turn yesterday morning on our way to the Richmond Bridge. Somehow…wrong turns always work their way into mine & J’s trips… But I was able to get us out of it fairly easy. And I even knew two of the street names to do it!

Yay!

Had a bit of a drive around on Friday on the way to a friends place. Took notice of streetnames, but we’ll see if they sink in

So, yesterday I was describing an area to someone at work that I had never been to and later that night I actually passed by that building!

I made it a point to look at the street signs and remember what they were. Small, but something!

If someone asks me for directions to somewhere, I give them the most confusing long drawn-out set of directions.
Recently I was looking at houses, and i had to keep asking my workmates where all the streets were. I have no idea where anything is. And my “city’ isn’t exactly that big either!
This year I will familiarise myself with more of Griffith.

This morning when I was coming home I decided to start the New Year off right by taking a bit of a scenic drive. It was really nice and I tried to pay attention to things that I normally wouldn’t have.

So far, off to a good start!!

Someone was coming to meet me for coffee the other day and was totally in the wrong section of town. I am proud (and a little amazed) that I was able to give this person acurate directions to get to my side of town, including using street names. Yay!

I’ve lived in my city for two years and still don’t know very many street names. So, learning the names will have multipile benefits:

1.) Know my way around better
2.) Give better directions
3.) Inspire me to venture out of my comfort zones

I am going to really try to commit the street names to memory from now on instead of navigating by intuition or landmarks like I have up until now.