As soon as the feeling hits, your surroundings seem suddenly unfamiliar. Streets, houses, detours, construction - everything around you turns foreign and forbidding. You can't remember where you're supposed to go or how you're supposed to get there. Confusion sets in. Panic takes hold. You're lost on a bad trip.

But hey, man, stay cool: Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator is here to talk you down. The software works in tandem with the USB-equipped GPS locator and your existing notebook or Pocket PC (not included, duh) for the shortest route between you and a fully-functional GPS mapping system.

Just relax, drink lots of water, and keep repeating to yourself: "Streets & Trips 2005 includes 5.4 million miles of mapped roads and 1.8 million points of interest, from ATMs for getting cash to restaurants for spending it." It lets you add all kinds of freaky business to your maps: arrows, notes, highlighting, even freehand drawings. You can't always find an Internet connection in the middle of the Mojave Desert or deep in the Appalachian backwoods. Good thing Streets & Trips 2005 puts all this stuff on your PC's hard drive, so you won't need one (except for the free downloads of updated construction and delay information that you're entitled to with this purchase). And you can take advantage of a plethora of included travel tools, including a fuel calculator and a multi-stop route optimizer, all in the name of coming down easy.

Then plug the GPS Locator into your machine's USB port and let the serious chill-out commence. Look, there you are, right there on the software's special GPS pane! Why, you aren't lost at all! You're just another one of God's beautiful children, wandering the Hawthorne Blvds. and the County Rte. 14s of his wondrous creation. The world is wonderful again. Life is wonderful. Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator is wonderful. Everything cool now, man?

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