Keeping The Windmill Alive – May 2023
Mon, 05/01/2023 - 12:20am
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Perhaps you can post on a new book you're reading, a new hobby you're taking up or about random finds as you finally get around to cleaning out the..., or your most recent adventure?
Anything to keep your windmill alive.
Please keep comments polite.
This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.
--Jonathan (aka JM)
--filling in for Angela (aka GlobeTurtle)
keep on spinning
for another day.
Drive
Took a nice drive yesterday and had lunch out. Then set on the patio in the shade and relaxed for about an hour,
johnm405 660 & MSS&T
Vacation Starts Today
Flying out to four states over the next two weeks. Taking the DS55 with me. Can't to wait to go!
Garmin: GPSIII / StreetPilot / StreetPilot Color Map / StreetPilot III / StreetPilot 2610 / GPSMAP 60CSx / Nuvi 770 / Nuvi 765T / Nuvi 3490LMT / Drivesmart 55 / GPSMAP 66st * Pioneer: AVIC-80 / N3 / X950BH / W8600NEX
on Sat
we went to Roxborough and ordered 5 cheesesteaks from Dalessandro's.
RLC intersection at Henry and Walnut and it needed it.
There are signs warning pedestrians not to cross mid block.
Horns honking and relatively aggressive drivers.
But we were glad to make the trip. The steaks were excellent, but, I have to say with confidence, my favorite place is just as good. It's usually gonna be the non tourist joints that are very good imho
Happy Monday. Hope everyone
Happy Monday. Hope everyone has a great week.
May 1st
New week new month
Steve - 2 Nuvi 3597
Shots
Went and got our updated shots yesterday arm is a little sore this morning.
johnm405 660 & MSS&T
good morning
This week is a cooling trend. Enjoy it while its here.
nuvi 1390 LT, nuvi 1450 LMT, Win 10
Hello JM.
Hello JM.
Nowhere
Going to the veterans reunion this week.
d
My Last Trip was.....
Washington, DC to Boston.
RKF (Brookeville, MD) Garmin Nuvi 660, 360 & Street Pilot
Hi
Hi everyone
Gattina11
nothing
nothing
Nuvi 660, 2555LMT
To a private ranch for some
To a private ranch for some outdoor event.
oops, almost forgot.
RT
"Internet: As Yogi Berra would say, "Don't believe 90% of what you read, and verify the other half."
Have a great week
Have a great week.
Weather
Rain, rain, rain.
Heading To This Week
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and back.
It is May
I can't believe it.
Arizona
Using the trusty nüvi 760 to travel around Arizona camping. Also using it for my Holiday Inn Express POI file (need a shower occasionally!) and it's old enough that it plays audible books. We listen to the books through the truck stereo system and when the nüvi has directions it interrupts the book, gives the directions, and then picks up the book about 1 second prior to the interruption. Because it's actual audible books and a built in audible player it also lets me make bookmarks. Love the little bugger. The new units may have other advantages but I keep my trusty 760 because of these features.
GPSMAP 76CSx - nüvi 760 - nüvi 200 - GPSMAP 78S
Vacation
Vacation
Monday is coming soon.
Happens every week.
Garmin nüvi 3597LMTHD, 3760 LMT, & 255LMT, - "Those who wish for fairness without first protecting freedom will end up with neither freedom nor fairness." - Milton Friedman
Sunday
We thought about taking a ride tomorrow, but it is flooding or going to rain.
johnm405 660 & MSS&T
San Jose to SF
Roundtrip. Used public transit only yesterday since it was Cinco De Mayo and didn't want to be on the roads later in the day.
Nuvi 3597 LMT
.
West young man.
Present
Same
non-native nutmegger
Happy Sunday to all members..
Happy Sunday to all members..
Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597
Hello
have a great week!
Val - Nuvi 785t and Streetpilot C340
Last Trip
just spent a few days at Hilton Head.
Veterans Reunion
Went to the Veterans Reunion in Melbourne.
d
As expected
Monday happened again this week, as it has for the past 12 years and 20 weeks.
Garmin nüvi 3597LMTHD, 3760 LMT, & 255LMT, - "Those who wish for fairness without first protecting freedom will end up with neither freedom nor fairness." - Milton Friedman
I woke up today....
So apparently all is well
nuvi 760, nuvi 765T, nuvi 855, nuvi 3790LMT, nuvi 3490LMT - SoCal area
In Progess
Flying out to four states over the next two weeks. Taking the DS55 with me. Can't to wait to go!
Completed NC & FL. Now in CA and NV is next.
Garmin: GPSIII / StreetPilot / StreetPilot Color Map / StreetPilot III / StreetPilot 2610 / GPSMAP 60CSx / Nuvi 770 / Nuvi 765T / Nuvi 3490LMT / Drivesmart 55 / GPSMAP 66st * Pioneer: AVIC-80 / N3 / X950BH / W8600NEX
super dry
Everything drying up.
The Home of BLUMARU HOUNDS
nothing
nothing
Nuvi 660, 2555LMT
Nowhere Special
Nowhere special so far this week.
vacation
On a cruise
Steve - 2 Nuvi 3597
NOT on a cruise
On a cruise
and I am jealous,
with that kinda jealousy that comes with snow storms in May
the title of my autiobiography "Mistakes have been made"
No place special
Just work
"You can't get there from here"
Trip To Ivey Eye Clinic in London, Ontario
Plotted a Trip Planner route for a trip to Ivey Eye Clinic for retinal surgery. This allowed my wife to drive part of the route ad my daughter to drive the trip home.
Neither had used the GPS before or had driven there before.
Used Basecamp to generate the custom POI. Worked great.
DriveSmart 65, NUVI2555LMT, (NUVI350 is Now Retired)
Weather
Summer came early this year.
San Jose to SF
took the train on this occasion. Relatively hassle free. Took me within ten minute walk of my destination in SF
Nuvi 3597 LMT
Updated the POIs but...
have no trips planned. But sometimes an unplanned side trip is the best
Garmin gps vs google maps (recent experince)
Drove from Virginia to West Virginia and came back to Virginia in two days. While driving to WV, I used google maps, and while coming back to VA, I used Garmin GPS. I thought Garmin would find fewer narrow and rural roads since the GPS I have is for truckers' use (I bought it from a trucker in 2015, and I love it), but it brought us through some crazy narrow mountainous roads that google maps didn't recommend. I am pretty good at driving on mountainous roads in Appalachian areas, but it could be risky at night. Next time, I will listen to google maps and not depend on Garmin's suggestions, but I will still use it as my backup.
Be sure your GPS is set for
Be sure your GPS is set for Fastest Time. The route you describe sounds like Shortest which will take you on pigpaths and back roads.
Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267
Here we go
Here we go
Dinner
Took the wife and son out to dinner for Mother's Day.
johnm405 660 & MSS&T
Newmarket double header for
Newmarket double header for 9U baseball... Always fun.
keep on spinning
for another week
went to the
circus yesterday. It's amazing how a circus nobody ever heard of, sets up a tent and goes to another town with a bunch of tractor trailers, how talented the performers actually are. Almost like being an actor--a person can be really good yet nobody ever will know who they are. Made me think of Anthony Quinn as Zampano. Imagine Food Network's Giada's grandfather produced that film.