My dearie has a GPS unit..which he takes on certain trips. Not sure if he did for this one. He did get lost several times in a minor way in Spain (half hr. detour or so), but he seems to have good wayfinding skills to quickly catch onto the right turn, etc. He doesn't read Spanish.

We don't have a need to know where the other is several times per day as long as we each have a vague idea in advance, if the person is going to be cycling a piece to do something by bike, etc in the city or away for several hrs. longer than normal.

But most definitely we do keep in contact in some high tech way at least once per day. It's just cheaper than phone for overseas long distance.

I'm so glad that he and I have similar preferences for how we communicate with one another. He talks the right amount on difficult stuff at times...whereas this might not be true for some other guys.