When I started again on P99 - on my first day I lost my corpse in gfay and had to have a bard take me to it. I realised the necessity of "sense heading"... 5 levels later.
Your skill in sense heading has improved! (200)
After 20 levels I'd exit pod lift, run in a straight line and end up right at the BB zone canyon.
Back in 2000 on live, we used to print off hard copies of maps from alakazam.
These days I pop open
http://wiki.project1999.com/Zones on my tablet and access maps from there.