[codingdave]

Stop using GPS, as others have said. It isn't that GPS isn't useful - but you need to use it just for research, and then put the burden on yourself to memorize and remember what GPS tells you.

I'm old enough to have learned my way around before GPS. I would study maps of the area where I live, and I would explore - walking, biking, and driving every road in my area. These days, I still study maps online and also look at satellite imagery. When I am going somewhere new, I use Google Maps to recommend routes, memorize them, study them and what I will pass by, and then attempt to follow that route from memory. GPS is always there as a backup if you need it, and the little wrong turns and getting lost that happens without it tends to show you even more of your area. Eventually, you just know where everything is, at least everything within a few dozen miles of your home.