i used to ask my wife and daughter for directions , just to make sure we got lost somewhat , they both have a bad feeling for directions .
these modern times we have all kinds of digitsl options to find our way home again .
Or even find the other person if he / she is in trouble in my case i use https://owntracks.org/ on my home asistant server so i can find the wife if needed , she is diabetic and had some bad hypos in the past .
Most places like that here, a phone isn't going to do you any good other than to chuck at a bear if it is coming for you. :D
I would have no idea how to use that, but I never go far from home nowadays. I'm sorry you have to have that extra worry.
When I was visiting my son in Colombia, the whole small town found out fast that I got lost easily and didn't speak Spanish. But my daughter-in-law got a phone call if I left the house alone to go shopping, so I was safe even when I found myself in a bad part of town and could feel the eyes on me while I sat on a stoop to catch my breath. But there I stood out like a sore thumb with my all white hair, so it was easy for my son to find me from blocks away :D
ha ha i can imagine that the white hair stands out, over here a are a lot of grey people so that wouldn't really help me .