"When he moves into a new city, Chad Ochocinco doesn't use a GPS. He leaves the Garmin or TomTom turned off, preferring to cruise around on his own, making wrong turns and asking for directions.

It's how he learns, while entertaining his millions of Twitter followers with his adventures.

"I get lost a lot," the newest Patriots receiver said. "It's been fun. This past weekend I was a little frustrated because I lost about an hour, and I couldn't get where I needed to. Other than that, Boston — actually, heaven — has been good."

Ochocinco is wading through the Patriots plays similarly. He had quarterback Tom Brady's hand signals down quickly, but the playbook makes a street map of greater Boston seem like it's on a grid.

He's run wrong routes and dropped passes ("I'm human," he said) while his brain continued to deal with the flood of new information after 10 years in the boring Bengals offense. He's gone from play calls based in numbers to ones based in words, and it's not easy.

But just like his tours of his new city, he eventually lands at his destination. The drops have dissipated, as have the miscommunications thanks to help from new teammates Deion Branch and Wes Welker.

"The transition in heaven has been pretty good. It's surprising that I've caught on to so much material in so short a time," said Ochocinco, who arrived in a trade July 28. "Of course, (Welker and Branch) probably made it the easiest. With so much verbiage as far as signals, it's hard for me to get. With those two, including Tom, they've sped up the process to where I could probably go out there and play at full speed without having to think."

That time is coming. The former Pro Bowl receiver is looking to revive his career, and he's looking for a ring."