I prefer to use the whiz-wheel whenever I'm actually going anywhere. (Oh to be able to afford to do enough of my own flying to actually go somewhere, rather than let students take me places, but that's not the point!!!)
But there are plenty of other alternatives, ranging from staying in the local area that you know, to flying from one town to the next or following line features such as roads or coasts or railway lines, to electronic equivalents - or just eyeballing the chart and coming up with a sensible heading (pretty much the way you will be, or have been, taught to do unplanned diversions). Nothing wrong with any of these (so long as you have an appropriate backup if you're relying on things like batteries, of course)... but there are those of us who are sufficiently <insert your own word here> to prefer the manual method!
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