Alternate Route

yes, you can. once you put a route in, you can go back to the main screen and the do a reroute. One nice thing that I like better the the T2, is that when you reroute, you don't have to specify how you want to reroute (such as faster vs shortest route), it does it from your already set perferences.

How do you do a re-route from the main scree, is this something all Nuvi's can do?

I believe asianfire is referring to the Detour button.

But correct me if I am wrong, but the detour button only takes you a different route for a small amount of time, then puts you back on the original route. Tom Tom's have a button that completely send you a different route. I just don't understand why Garmin would neglect to include that function.

Yes, I was referring to the detour button and in my experience, it has taken me a totally different route. It may try to put me back on my original route, but far away from the place that I rerouted.

My experience with the Detour function is that it marks the road you are currently on as an avoidance and then recalculates the route. If at some point further ahead the road that you left becomes the only logical route, it may route you back to that road. But otherwise, it will not use that road again.

thanks, I was wondering how I could put in an alternate route. I will try it. I just wish it was easier to do and that you didn't have to go back to the main screen.

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought about the Detour Function in the avoidance context. That makes a lot of sense.