Once you're a few miles out on the North Atlantic and begin to lose sight of the shore, it's hard to tell which way you're going, especially at midday, when the Sun is directly overhead and of little help. Sure, we have GPS and autopilot technology these days, and the compass has been around for quite some time, but the navigators of old were often unsure and sometimes dead wrong about where they were and which way they were headed. Many of them were lost, some of them were found, and a select few of them found something unexpected -- like this great country of ours. At least that's how we like to tell it.
Nowadays, it seems that we've got so much to help us get where we think we're supposed to be going that we forget that sometimes getting a little lost can be a good thing. Maybe you'll wind up finding exactly what you've always wanted but didn't even know you were looking for.
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