My brother-in-law and I decided to spend the long weekend getting back to nature. We rented a trailer, took off to a secluded lake, got into our brand-new hiking gear, and promptly got lost.
We tried all the tactics we could remember from movies to figure out what direction we were headed. Moss on the trees? There wasn’t any. The direction of the sun? It was heavily overcast.
Just as we were about to panic, my brother-in-law spotted a cabin off in the distance. He pulled out his binoculars and studied it closely. With a cry of “A-ha!” he turned and led us right back to our camp.
“That was fantastic,” I said. “How did you do it?”
“Simple,” he replied. “In this part of the country all the satellite dishes point south.”