Keeping the Windmill Alive - Your last trip? – May 2013

Haven't gone home yet.

for Jazzfest

Drove from Florida to Indiana, including a scenic, back country road side trip, guided the whole way by my trusty old nuvi 660, listening to mp3's played through the car's stereo.

Great trip!

We'll probably be heading back the end of next week.

Just got back from a six month plus cross country trip.
We used two GPS (both Garmins)to help navigate us.

I won't say we couldn't have done it without them, but they were invaluable tools that made the trip less stressful and more enjoyable.

One of the Garmins we were able to download our personalized route. The other Garmin we used for the alternate route and to find points of interest with.

When I bought our newest Garmin, I didn't realize the model I purchased did not have the capability of making a personalized route (I thought they all did), but did have lifetime maps.

Yesterday I took a side road to get to a local College and found 3 portable speed cameras. I guess students are always in a hurry to get off class and more prone to get a speeding ticket.

But 3 cameras on one street of only 1.1 miles? That was outrageous...

The use of GPS was limited except when needing specific locations and ETA's.

Recently bought a new home in a different town and have been using my Garmin to find restaurants, stores, etc.

Just recently left my winter home on the Pacific ocean south of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

Drove north to Laredo,Tx and from there east to New Orleans where I spent a few days.

From there I left to make my way to the Blue Ridge Parkway which starts in Virginia and ends in North Carolina for a total of 469 miles. I split this into a 2 day trip.

The Blue Ridge Parkway was pretty empty and accommodations along the route are sparse. In this case the GPS POI's came in handy to guide me off the Pkwy to a small town for an overnight stay, there are no accommodations right on the Pkwy.

From the end of the Pkwy I made my way north to Detroit and the Ambassador bridge to go home.

I did a total of 3780 miles or 6017 km on this trip and took 11 days. About $ 230.00 in Diesel fuel and seven motel/hotel overnights, 3 nights in NOLA. My average fuel used works out to 45 Mpg US.

In most cases the Garmin worked well, but there were a few instances where the Garmin p***ed me off royally. As long as I drive in Mexico I have the Garmin set to use toll roads. While I have it set for the fastest route and avoid toll roads in the USA, several times it wanted to take me on a route through some towns (loop roads???) rather than staying on the interstate. Of course those would be much slower and have traffic lights to contend with. After the first time this happened I just zoomed out on the screen and saw what was happening and ignored the proffered "advice" and had to put up with constant recalculating sounds.

A year ago on my home-bound drive the 3790 crapped out on me in Kansas City and for that reason this year I had my trusty old 855 with me but did not have to resort to using it.

Now at home trying to get used to the colder temps, all winter long I live in 85 degree solid sunshine every day.

Edited out

I had a Windmill but not anymore. Where did it go?????

It got real windy and it took off like a helicopter

I have the volume muted most of the time when I take a trip. I don't want to hear all the jibberish all the time. I unmute when I really want the turn by turn directions.

Me and my Zumo 665 had a few nice and easy trips through forests and hills for work this week.

somewhere down south....

whistler

go cubs

Granddaughter and I drove to Dundee and spent a couple of hours in Cabelas.

Testing out accuracy of updated GPS maps on new roads in Orlando area!

nothing new

Does it work out differently somewhere else?

Yes there is, 54 Mpg Imperial!
Which is damned good for a car loaded down and many mountainous areas traversed. Trunk and backseat full.

Just at home.

I use it to find trails for hiking. Last place I went was Hockley Valley in Ontario.

Used the other day for the Red Light cameras.

Leave next Wednesday on our annual trip North to see family, friends and eat lot's of Lobsta, Chowda in NH & Me.

If the new maps come out before we leave, I'm not going to update my units before I get back !
Well, maybe might update my backup NUVI 260 !

Trip to Louisiana.

Went touring around.

getting ready for summer trip to Alaska! Will be updating POIs soon too.

Just down to the city the last 2 days for hospital visits. Zumo 665 gave me a little traffic on Friday.

A little geocaching and driving around Pennsylvania.

Use gps to go work

Visited cities that I haven't been too for many years, I have found that after all the the things that I find wrong with the GPS it has really been good, it may not have taken the best route, but it always got me to the destination,GPS's work really well.

End of a good week.

don't feel like going anywhere today. Happy Monday

Baltimore, MD to Canton, OH.

to Laughlin, Nevada.

In search of health spas

Leaving for NYC then to LA.

Leaving for NYC then to LA.

How was that trip? Been wanting to do that for a good while. Cumberland is about 1:20 from my cabin near Morgantown, wv

You just tickled my brain into talking some friends into doing the trip after the Holiday.

How was that trip? Been wanting to do that for a good while. Cumberland is about 1:20 from my cabin near Morgantown, wv

You just tickled my brain into talking some friends into doing the trip after the Holiday.

Round trip to LA. GPSr super useful in an unfamiliar town...

In just a bit over 24 hours from now, we will be leaving for the annual road trip to North Carolina and the weekend family reunion.

just using the zumo 665 for traffic.

Saturday morning for Argyle,Tx.

with some friends at a place we've never been to. Love the little Nuvi-)

Left NC on Saturday heading to Long Island to see family, friends, and the Memorial Day weekend air show. Stopped for a couple of nights in Washington for a little photo shoot, including a 3am visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

working using the traffic reports

Knoxville to Nashville to Memphis and back.

Heading out for Virginia in the morning and coming back Sunday.

Have a safe Holiday!

trip to put flags and flowers at the cemetery tomorrow.

It was a thrill primarily for my 4-year-old son, who's really into trains! I would recommend it on my own, however.