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

Used 1350 for traffic info for a rare trip 'downtown' for Jersey Boys.

whirl

Sag Harbor, NY

a couple days in the Laurel Highlands of PA.

time to use my GPS in Utah...

I am in Europe and my garmin died. Now i am looking for maps for a borrowed tomtom gps to guide me the rest of the trip.

Even though I have Block buster Online, I still exchange movies in store. The store always seems to have new releases in stock whereas the online inventory sucks. Just about all my movies in my Queue Super Long Wait. I go to the store and they are sitting on the shelf. Maybe Blockbuster Online needs to borrow some of the brick and mortar movies to keep up with the demand. Ok, done with my rant. But this is the last place my GPSr took me.

Will be driving from the Northeast to Florida.

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Happy Monday

Finally!

Took my annual trip to the All Chrysler Nationals in Carlisle, PA. On the way back to Charlotte, I stopped to visit Foamhenge in VA.

Family vacation from Peoria, IL to Branson, MO. First time there, had a really great time. Silver Dollar City is a pretty nice little amusement park, with better coasters than I was expecting. Also saw the Chinese Acrobats (phenomenal), Dixie Stampede (OK, I'm not big on horse-riding and liked the pre-show teen-aged juggler the best, and the food was excellent too), Fish Hatchery (cool, informative, and FREE), rode the Ducks (eh, OK), and ate some great food (Andy's Frozen Custard and Danna's BBQ). Garmin performed like a champ although for this trip I would have liked to have traffic capability - Hwy 76 through Branson, "the strip", is always awful traffic-wise, and our 50LM tried to get us on it at every opportunity!

was to Rochester, MN for a Ctholic youth conference.

...with a Garmin Forerunner 205.

from Washington, DC to Atlanta, GA (and back).

Took (paved) back roads from Ottawa. Pre-programmed the Nuvi and except for 1.7 miles of gravel road, all went well. 90 degrees though...had to keep movin'. Cooling scarf helped.

Found a warehouse in an inter-city neighborhood. Glad I got there directly!

some camping and fishing with friends. Still lovin' the summer vacation in Alaska!

We took the long, steep drive down I-5 from California into Oregon, and met the very nice staff at the small Oregon State Welcome Center at exit 19. It is located off Lowe Road. A little hard to find even with a GPS, but worth the visit.

Just got a new Nuvi 3597 and used Garmin express to transfer all the info to the new GPS. Went to Disney and several places there stored in the my GPS coordinates. It worked flawlessly except for the same issue I’ve been having with all my Nuvi's since the map updates about 1.5 years ago. The Nuvi’s seem to be somewhat poor at calculating arrival times. It seems from monitoring numerous Nuvi arrival time vers actual arrive time the Nuvi’s are underestimating the drive time about 18%. That includes short trips, long trips, trips with no traffic and trips with heavy traffic. Wonder if other are having the same issue.

Back to the zoo and Tony Packo's.....

I just got back to South Texas from California. It's fiercely hot in California and Arizona right now. It made New Mexico and Texas seem nice and cool.

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I set my Garmin nuvi 2595 for an Address in California and I Cut a Chogee. The GPS took me right up to the Front Door of a place where I had never been before. The Trip back was also Memorable, but I knew where I was going since I was headed Home.

What Windmill's are going out of business?

whirl

A date last weekend at the other end of town.

A trip to Louisiana.

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Left 9am arrived 2am. Easy drive.

our motorcycles. Stayed at a great B&B in Homer, Bay Avenue. A perfect trip with super weather and a good time with friends!

Stay put at home for now.

I just got back from from a trip to Ottawa and Montreal. The Garmin 1390T with the updated 2014.10 map worked great. Speed Limit and Junction View worked pretty good.

Went for a motorcycle ride with the wife and then went for pizza afterwards.

Hitting the warehouse store to stock up for the coming week. Hot, but no issues.

Going camping in Jasper for 3 days and then Banff for 3 days. Real camping...in a tent not a motorhome or trailer.

Use the GPS almost everywhere we go, including the airlines.

RT

Am new to the site, but look forward to participating! We will download and roadtrip the Diners, Driveins and Dives (DDD) for sure!

I start tomorrow with 6 days and 5 nights at Boy Scout camp. Its going to be great.

...your next stop -- the Twilight Zone!

After an after-work event in the Wall Street area of NYC (which my Nuvi 52 found with no issues), I got the extra task of taking my boss home. It was only slightly out of my way, I'm a nice enough guy, and it would have been a 90 minute ride by train at that hour.

He guides me straight to his door, I pull away and slightly up the street, plug in my home coordinates to make my way easily back (last time, i was flying blind, took me 20 minutes to orient myself). Made the u-turn on his street to drive back past his house, and there he is at the curb waving me down.

Turns out I did precisely what he said, not what he meant. He told me to get him home, took me right to his door, and left him stranded without his car which was parked -- yeah, you guessed it -- right at the train station. Garmin got me back on my way.

But I was later thinking...I could have said the next day, "Oh, I thought you were waving 'bye-bye'" and averted the pick-up. Almost could have gotten away with it.

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He's here in Edmonton this morning. LOL 14C or 57.2F right now.

New London, CT

Montauk Point, NY

The heat wave finally broke in the Northeast so My brother and I are off on a Bicycle trail riding trip in Western Maryland.

Created a bunch of trail waypoints in Google Earth and loaded them into my Nuvi 1490 and Montana 650. Tested them out today and all were spot on! The only hassle was the 6 car pileup on I-70 that my GTM 25 traffic receiver and Nuvi 1490 missed completely!

Central Pennsylvania

Happy Monday

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