Representing the direction of a line with bearings is a long-standing tradition that continues today on plats, legal descriptions, site plans, and other documents. Calculating the direction of a line by using bearings is also a longstanding tradition. However, some surveyors have realized that calculating the direction of a line is much easier when using azimuths and then converting the azimuths to bearings for representation on documents. I find while presenting training seminars that many people do not know how to calculate directions with azimuths as they have never seen it done. In this article, I will present what azimuths are and how they are calculated.