Made me think about something I hadn't thought about in years -- spent summer at Stephen F. Austin Univ. in Nacogdoches, Texas when I was about 17. [It is in the deep piny woods of Texas]

Well, l was west Texas kid, and I had never before been anywhere that you cold not the horizon, and I had no idea which way was north except when I could see the stars. It made me real uncomfortable. I got a compass, and have had one ever since.