Keeping The Windmill Alive - Your Last Trip? – October 2014

Went to city after getting truck out of body shop,No changes found on new maps so far.

Just got back from Temecula, CA

Going to Vegas soon!

just drove from RI to N Carolina.

Spent a 'trip' to the hospital that lasted 2 weeks, not 24 hours....

Happy Monday, I hate Mondays

A scenic trip to the West Country.

Washington, DC to Hanover, PA.

don't know exactly where we will be going but looking at something this weekend after Halloween.

Might go up to the cottage for the day.

Maybe Florida?

Going to Chicago this week.... will try to stay clear of downtown and all the red light cameras.

It will only be my 23rd trip. Go for conventions each year so I can bitch at the Garmin booth during CES!

Florida for some fishing and ,yes believe it also some hunting.

It's a very nasty city.

...take my rider by my side.

We did a road trip to Cedar Rapids, IA last week. One of our activities was to do a GeoTour of 24 county parks. Think of sort of a road rally with geocaching at each location included.

On our first day of the tour, we made it to a fairly remote nature preserve and my aging and limping Nuvi 760 lost it's screen calibration. Would not allow selecting anything on the top 1/2 of the screen. Could not enter my unlock PIN to turn it on. There went all my waypoints and POI's! We were pretty far out in the boonies so my backup cell phone navigation wouldn't connect. Used a paper map and a handheld hiking GPS with no routing to get through the first day. This was a lot of country back roads, most not well marked, and many too small to appear on the paper map. So there was a lot of guesswork, backtracking and not so polite language being muttered through that first day.

OK - time to pull the plug and retire my old 760. I had been having some miscellaneous hardware issues the last year, anyway. Once we got back to a more populated area and my phone got data again, routed to a Best Buy and selected a 65LM for a replacement. Back at the hotel, Googled and found the method to enter screen calibration mode on the 760 and got it working again! Was able to unlock it and transfer all the waypoints and POI's to the 65LM and we were in business again. And I now have a useful but still limping spare.

I really like the new features of the 65LM and the added screen size. The rest of the trip was uneventful and lots of fun.

Went to work

Went to work

Just the same thing... back and forth from work. Have a good week everyone.

Yep.

For the NASCAR race.

No need for the Nuvi here

nothing

to Hilltop Lane!

to keep alive.

I think the buggy ride makes a great windmill post. Let us know how it goes.
Mary

Well, despite being 4 hours late leaving, it turned out to be a pretty uneventful ride with no surprises. Now, if I can just convice all theses rabid physical therapists that I did not forget how to bath, feed, and dress myself just because I checked into a hospital, I might just get out of here with all my marbles.

left home on the 12th October and after about 4,000 miles have made it to Nogales, going across the border into Mexico on Wednesday morning.

We always loved to walk over in Nogales. In the past few years he has said it is unsafe and we do not go to Nogales. Do you ever walk in Nogales? Do you think it is safe?
Do so enjoy shopping there.
Mary

Waihawa to K-Bay

In my last trip to Tampa,in the Bush Garden area, yesterday, my gps with the POI Factry RLC, work perfect inform very good about RLC ...
Thank you

Drove from Eastern Shore Maryland to Western Kentucky and returned. My nevi performed very well, predicting arrival time to within a few minutes. Only complaint: no traffic info.

This is my first and only time in Nogales, I normally cross the border in Laredo, TX.
I did walk from my motel to a restaurant nearby, but I was the only on on foot to be seen!
Unless you are talking about the Mexican side? I never saw it, I crossed over using the truck crossing.

Ooooops, double posted!

To the Mexican side and shop for a few hours. It was a lot of fun. We would always buy the vanilla. We loved to browse the shops. A lot of fun. I remember one time with my late father. We were going back to the American side and the guard asked him something and my father made a joke out of it, as he did a lot of things, but the guard didn't think it was funny and asked him a lot more questions than he asked us. My brother won't let us go when we visit as he said there is a lot of drug traffic there now and it is not safe.

I have a number of friends who do this route every year down and back. Not one recommends going to Nogales, Mx. Its like Tijuana or Nuevo Laredo, best to avoid them.

I was wanting to go there again but with your and my brothers advice I think I will pass.
Thanks a lot.
Mary

Finding my car at the airport parking lot using the "last position" feature.

My answer to "everybody remember where we parked."

It's Halloween!

Just spent a few days in Gatlinburg, TN and took a trip on the scenic railway over in Bryson, NC. Perfect weather, sunny with temps close to 80 in the afternoons. The fall colors were at their peak.

They are supposed to get a fair amount of snow in the mountains there this weekend!

Routine week, with decent weather.

Candy shopping at Target!

Went out for drive around town lots of scary creatures out and about watch out