Keeping the Windmill Alive - Your last trip? - January 2013
Tue, 01/01/2013 - 2:48am
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In danger of losing your windmill?
Maybe you can share with us the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you use it to seek out special places to go (like Thai Food, ice cream shoppes, etc.) Anything to keep your windmill alive.
This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.
~Angela
Nowhere tonight. Not the
Nowhere tonight. Not the designated driver. Happy New Year to all.
Saw the ball drop
Then to bed. Later to my Mom's.
Nuvi 2460LMT.
no where
just got up!
non-native nutmegger
out of the
garage
Never argue with a pig. It makes you look foolish and it anoys the hell out of the pig!
Made a run to CA to be...
with family for the New Year!
Walk from my
Bed to my recliner and made a run to the bathroom.
3790LMT; 2595LMT; 3590LMT, 60LMTHD
Mercer Market
Chips and dips for the Rose Bowl game. Go Badgers.
1490LMT 1450LMT 295w
Where else
Little boys room
Local IHOP
...and it was S.R.O.! ...Really crowded!
(How crowded was it?)
It was so crowded that I needed a GPS to navigate to the men's room!
Happy 2013
Quiet start to 2013 travel-wise. Just out and about for essential shopping. Safe travels all!
Wings and Chinese Food
It is nice not having to depend on a cell phone for directions.
TomTom trip
Just got back from NC with TomTom leading the way. I like the ETA, travel time to destination and miles to destination feature.
Jim F.
trip
Due to cabin fever, and my wife's mother in hospice care, driving me crazy, I did a December 18th, solo drive from East Bend, NC to the Station Inn in Cresson, Pa for a couple days of trainspotting. Lots of RR activity, with Altoona close by, made for some fun snowy train videos. Just posted it on YouTube under my username "oldtimerguy58", if anyone is interested. Also some antique clock vids. All with no ads, just for fun.
Unless you are the lead sled dog, the view never changes. I is retard... every day is Saturday! I still use the Garmin 3590 LMT even tho I upgraded to the Garmin 61 LMT. Bigger screen is not always better in my opinion.
New Yearz Campout
Annual Full Moon Bus Club New Bus Resolutions Campout:
Table Rock State Park in Pinnacle, SC, about 340 miles from here in Atlanta. Along the way, I plotted the usual the habits- stops for lunch, fuel, beer and groceries, and also stumbled across a thrift store.
An entire Brita pitcher full of water left outside on my picnic table on Saturday night froze solid, but it's pretty easy to keep a bus warm with an electric space heater.
Geo/ATL
Back home after...
a great New Year with family in CA.
On the Rio Grande
We are camping this week at Big Bend National Park, and it is freezing here! Hopefully someplace warmer next week...
Oregon Coast for Christmas
We stayed in a beach house in an unincorporated community. Fortunately, my old C580 was pretty close with the address, although we got turned around in the darkness on the single-lane gravel roads.
NJ
Driving around Northern New Jersey finally ending up at Garden State Plaza.
Seattle to FT Collins and back
Last Year we drove the family to Colorado to drop my eldest daughter off at college after winter break, stopping to Ski Along the way.
Will nuvi 265W, Vista HCX, amateur radio
Ten mile trip
...to get a routine maintenance car service.
yawn
Moline IL
Trip to the doctor, Menards, grocery store and our favorite Mexican place for lunch.
I notice that two intersections had longer yellow lights. I wonder what that is all about.
1490LMT 1450LMT 295w
GPS took me
to Mt. Lemmon, Arizona
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28924-d143818-...
Originator of Keeping Your Windmill Alive. Live in MA & have a cooking website. 6 yr. member. http://kitchentoysmakecookingfun.blogspot.com/
heading to
Mount Magazine State Park
FL to NY
I had to move a car from Florida to New York after the one in NY got taken by Sandy.
I used to take that trip a few times a year. Thank God for my GPS around Washington DC.
A lot of new roads to get lost on.
Made life a lot easier.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things!
Will Be Heading
To Marksville, La Wednesday for a little R&R at the casino.
3790LMT; 2595LMT; 3590LMT, 60LMTHD
Juke
...Marksville, La...
Birthplace of the incomparable harmonica bluesman Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs

Took Android TomTom to SAT
I used my new Android-based TomTom on a trip to San Antonio over Christmas. It was nice having the speed limit displayed, but I forgot to add the rest area POI before we left.
I have since fixed that problem.
I hope TT adds voice input in an update soon, I miss that function from Google Maps. It is easier to find a place "on the fly" using voice input, like "Where's the nearest Starbucks (or whatever it might be you're looking for)?"
Shooter N32 39 W97 25 VIA 1535TM, Lexus built-in, TomTom Go
Windmill vs Quixote
Used the Garmin to find an annex to the hospital downtown.
Windmill
Loaded up addresses for an up coming trip.
The Home of BLUMARU HOUNDS
Shopping
Just a couple of short trips for shopping this weekend. No major traffic issues and decent weather.
MD to DE to MD to DE to MD
Starting on Saturday 12/30, I drove w/ wife to Delaware, then I drove back home solo on Sunday, then back to Delaware on Monday after work, and finally back home again on 1/1!
Back home
Been up the top of the south island for 3 weeks, had nice Xmas with the family
Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present...
Chicago
Actually, Oak Park. Visiting grandkids.
Bob: My toys: Nüvi 1390T, Droid X2, Nook Color (rooted), Motorola Xoom, Kindle 2, a Yo-Yo and a Slinky. Gotta have toys.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
Thanx BiLL Solomon
My Last Trip was.....
Bethesda, MD to Baltimore, MD to watch some play-off football. Easy trip and a good result.
RKF (Brookeville, MD) Garmin Nuvi 660, 360 & Street Pilot
Marathon
Navigated to a water stop at a marathon in Camarillo, CA to volunteer giving gatorade, water, and power gel (nutrition food sorta like cake frosting in a single-serve squeeze pack). Old Garmin 760 still working, slow but hanging in there. The battery was replaced in that recall a couple of years ago but it doesn't hold a charge well. This might be its last year.
Nuvi 760 (died 6/2013); Forerunner 305 bike/run; Inreach SE; MotionX Drive (iPhone)
Thanks for volunteering!
...water stop at a marathon in Camarillo, CA ... volunteer...
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how about that congress?
You can walk a horse to water, but a pencil has to be led.
Florida keys
for our annual beat-the-winter-blues trip
Garmin 205, 260W, 1450LMT, 2460LMT, HEREwego for iPhone ... all still mapping strong.
Sightseeing and
Blowing the carbon out of the old truck. (That expression is a carryover from my dad's generation.)
1490LMT 1450LMT 295w
Ran a KKKKK this morning...
...my GPS was a Garmin Forerunner 205.
Cold in AZ
Heading for mid to upper 20's the next 4 days. That's dang cold for the Phoenix AZ area.
RT
"Internet: As Yogi Berra would say, "Don't believe 90% of what you read, and verify the other half."
off roading
In the Aravaca desert area.
Originator of Keeping Your Windmill Alive. Live in MA & have a cooking website. 6 yr. member. http://kitchentoysmakecookingfun.blogspot.com/
A winery
Last night the missus and I went to the Auburn Twin Oaks Winery. Kind of an interesting place: It's open only two Saturdays a month and reservations are required. It's only three years old and a very nice place, lots of wood beams, hard wood floors - that kind of stuff. The wine's not cheap, but the red zinfandel that we had was excellent.
The winery is really off the beaten path, but my Nuvi 1450 got us there just fine.
Phil
"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse."
Lisbon
CT to see Les Miserables
non-native nutmegger
Headed downtown to a place...
we've never been. This is when the Nuvi pays for itself
Trip to Seattle
Used my GPS heavily while on a business trip to Seattle last week.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum located by Washington
Well worth the trip.
http://airandspace.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/
it's Monday
Again, I hate Mondays
Thanx BiLL Solomon
My Last Trip Was.....
Bethesda, MD to Pasadena, MD
RKF (Brookeville, MD) Garmin Nuvi 660, 360 & Street Pilot