Keeping the Windmill Alive - Where was your last trip with your GPS?

Just got home after evacuating for hurricane Gustav.

My Nuvi, Jill, did a good job - she wasn't the least bit stressed out.

We went to near Katy, TX and Jill was able to find us a Dog Park for the grand-dogs, a feed store and a Petsmart. I was driving around like I knew where I was going!

My Dad's c340 died mid trip, but it turned out to be a blown fuse. *whew* It's back up and running now.

Just made a round trip from Florida to Michigan and return about 2400 miles.

Programmed a route into my 750 cause I didn't agree with the one the unit suggested. The friends we went to visit live in a rural area and don't really have a street address per se, so I had him send me the coordinates for his house. Programmed that in and used it as the end point. The unit took us right to the door even though it involved quite a few turns onto non-major roads. I was quite pleased. I do like the way you can tailor the routes on the unit itself.

On the return route I programmed in some side trips through parts of Indiana along the Ohio river and it worked fine.

I'm really happy with this unit.

the wife and I are off for a weekend getaway to Charleston WV. Never been there before, so the Nuvi is leading the way.

C'ya all when I get back!

Just made a trip from DC to Milwaukee and back for the Harley 105th Anniversary party! What an awesome time... hit every back road between the two cities. Zumo saved my butt in Milwaukee... avoided all the traffic on highways... stayed to surface streets.

Somehow, lucked into front row passes for Springsteen... 3.5 hour concert!

Last month we took a trip from northern Mo to an out in the sticks campground in NE Texas via OK City. Both times our Nuvi 350 took us right to the locations. It does however seem to get p...ed off when you deviate from the intended route.

My wife, youngest son and I went to Colorado Springs over Labor Day to visit our oldest son who is in his third year at the USAF Academy. They have a special Parents Weekend where we can go to his classes on Friday, watch a football game on Saturday and have him stay with us until Monday evening.

We used my GO930 and I listened to the music I had saved on an SD card through the FM transmitter. Most of the time that worked, but around (relatively) big cites (i.e, Fort Worth, Amarillo and C. Springs) I would get a lot of interference.

We also used the GO930 to help us find some restaurants in C. Springs and along the route.

I set up several rest areas (from the POI file from this site ) as destinations along the route. That made it easy to see how far it was to the next stop.

Just got back from Oak Island, Had to head out of town before Hannah showed up.

So nice not to have to depend on a co-pilot to read a map and being able to see just how far the nxt turn is away at a moments notice... Don't know how we did it before. Still have the old paper maps just in case but I'm hoping that I'll never need them again.

Did have a couple of problems with performance. Put in the address of the rental property and the GPS told me I was still 0.3 miles away when I was driving past it. And I guess during the middle of the night someone changed the Family Dollar into a H-U-G-E boat dealer. Oh well it was on a main drag and only about two miles down the road... on the opposite side of the road. Not the first toime I've ever gotten bogus directions though.

Don't want to have to live witout it!

I understand on the US side of the Bridge, there are a lot of detour and Hwy closures. Anyone has recently driven that route? Was your Nuvi helpful in navigating?

Yes, it was a flight on Southwest. But I'm enough of a geek to where I enjoy following the flight path. We hugged the CA coast down to LA, then turned due east into Phoenix. Speed got up to about 580 MPH and elevation got to around 37,000 feet (don't know how accurate elevation is in these conditions). Pretty straight forward flight.

We just got back Wednesday evening and my son called last night to tell me that they had a 4.2 earthquake centered about 14 miles from him. He said it felt like a truck hit the house, but no damage (pretty small to cause any). It would have been inteesting feeling an earthquake, but I'm not sure I'd like it very much.

Had gone on a trip with the Garmin 650 to Lexington (Strawberry farm) from Austin TX. On reaching closer to the place, the GPS kept telling me that I am driving off the road and tried to get me back on the same road I was travelling on couple of times.

Apparently the map was not updated with the actual route. Pretty disorienting at first.

Has anyone noticed this before?

to get to our favorite diner for breakfast (Franks in Jessup, MD). Then on to the Commissary @ Ft. Meade. Hope I dont have to use it to get to New Orleans for Ike.

Just done Ireland - how good is a NUVI in that lane country!!!

Now doing UK into Scotland... LOVE my NUVI! More to follow.

Funny you should mention Ireland. My Parents just picked up a Nuvi 760 yesterday (Saw mine, then had to get one) and are taking it to Dublin in a couple weeks. It will come in real handy, as they are driving from Dublin to Achill Island (East coast to West coast) With all the roundabouts, it will really work out well.

Have a great trip in Scotland.

Just got back from a family event in Wilmington, DE. On the way from Cleveland to Wilmington, we agreed to pick up my nephew in Pittsburgh. He's in his second week as a college student, attending Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). Adam, my nephew, emailed me the address of the 7-11 near his dorm where he wanted us to pick him up. We plugged the address into Jack, and he took us right to the 7-11...well, almost. The exit we needed to take off of I-376 was closed for repairs, so we had to blow past it. Once we got off at the next exit, Jack instructed us to make a u-turn at the next intersection, got us back on the highway, and then to a correct exit. Only took us five minutes longer than the original route. Once we picked up my nephew, Jack got us back to the PA Turnpike really quick.

Again, GPS is the only way to go if you're traveling.

I've seen this happen on my Nuvi 350 when I was on a small local road right beside a major highway. I can't really blame the GPSr though, considering the uncertainty in position can be 20 ft. or more, and the local road is just a lane away from the highway. Understanding its limitations, I just tune out and ignore the few quirks of the device.

Took a house hunting trip to Augusta GA using my Nuvi 660. It never steered me wrong, and let me find some places that I didn't know existed.

I use mine for surprise weekend trips. I'll bring up the POI list and look for a park I haven't been to or an attraction that I've not seen and go. Two weeks ago I made the trek from Phoenix, AZ to Flagstaff, AZ to visit the Lowell Observatory - the observatory that discovered Pluto in 1930. While the weather wasn't good enough for any telescope viewing, the drive was nice and it sure felt great to be out of the 100+ degree heat and into the 50 degree weather in Flagstaff!!

Just came back from vacation in my homeland of Canada. Was great for exploring around the back mountain roads. My wife was impressed with the custom POI's that I had loaded, particularly the one for all the Tim Horton's locations!

Used mine Saturday to find a business for my wife.

Long story as short as I can make it... Her mom passed 4 years ago, and grandmother 2 years ago. Her mom's ashes went to grandma, and when she passed both sets of ashes became ours. We used a local store that specializes in funeral stuff (not a funeral home or cemetary...(big mistake). So we had the ashes sent to the last two family plots in PA along with granite and bronze markers. It took weeks to get the markers made and we gave the OK to markers to be shipped to the cematary. We contacted the cemetary 2 weeks ago to get photos of the markers, and we got "what markers" as a reply.

So 18 months later the store never shipped the markers to the cemetary. We finally tracked them down at the manufacturer, the store owner had them sent back to them after he was evicted from his store FOR NON-PAYMENT OF RENT.

Anyway we used the GPS to find the manufacturer of the markers in a small town, re-inspected them and get the shipped (in transit as I type this) to the cemetary. FINALLY.... Almost 2 years later.

The markers were the only thing we did not stay on top of, and follow up with the store. We had some questionable meeting with the guy and had some funny feelings about him, and couldn't figure it out...well, we did now.

We scared the pi$$ out of the store owner. We showed up at his new location unannounced, filed a complain with the BBB, and also found out he doesn't have a valid business license with the city and they are investigating.

So word of warning - DO NOT USE "THE CASKET STORE" in Knoxville, TN. They guy and his wife are VERY SHADY!

Was out to Scranton, PA for the weekend.

Yes, this has happened to me. The past weekend on the way to Charleston WV, the Nuvi had the old Rt9 in the map database. The "new" Rt9 (pavement looked several years old) was not on the Nuvi. The unit was freaking out, it just kept "recalculating" until we were back on track.

Oh well, nothing is 100%.

I needed to go to a different site for work this morning -- no problem, feed it to the GPS the night before, okay, that looks like a reasonable route.

Until this morning, when I hear on the radio that a major freeway intersection I'll need to traverse is CLOSED due to an accident!

Glad I replaced that "Recalculating" with "Have it your way" -- made it in a reasonable amount of time on surface streets.

I had this happen a couple weeks back on a part of Route 321 in NW Penna. Rt321 runs together with Rt59 for a short way then heads back South. When I turned S the gps (nuvi 200) lost the road completely.

It did still display the water body for Kinzua Dam properly beside Rt321. And it even knew about a turn for a scenic drive along the way even though it never did show me back on the road for about twenty miles.

It displayed all the roads OK again when I got to the next town (did I mention this section of Rt 321 runs through forest all that way?).

(PS Just got the nuvi late this summer. I didn't check the map version.)

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dropping off my brother at Cal (UC Berkeley) then off to pick up my friends visiting from Boston. I let them use the GPS and they ended up traveling all over San Francisco. (They had too much fun sight seeing and keep missing the turn)

Drove from OH to MI. Drove 399 miles up to MI but only 268 coming back. No setting difference on the 760. It routed me thru some wired places on the way up. Go figure.

I used mine for finding the hotel I was staying at on a business trip last week. Not very glorious, but was once again a great tool for also having accurate speed and mileage. Ok, on the way to getting my windmill back! (I cant believe I let myself lose it...)

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I just returned from a trip to Western Nebraska and the Garmin got me there and back with no problems at all. How could I have survived for so long without garmin?

What's a windmill? Do I have one?

Took Gabby 360 to Reading,Pa

Took a trip to a town just down the highway. They had an auction at a charter school that was closed down by the state. Got a teachers desk for ten bucks and my garmin nuvi 260 didnt miss a turn.

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From Dallas, TX to Los Alamos, NM. Garmin managed to find and try to navigate us thru private roads that were gated and locked in east Texas.

Fun trip anyways.

No you dont have one but look at this link.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6660

Used my GPS to navigate through the "Tour of Homes". This is an event put on by the home builder association that showcase their new homes and the new ammenities within them. The entire route of homes is usually over 100 miles.

I did not have too many glitches except on the new roads that were built in the new subdivisions. Was a lot of fun and a good test of the GPS. Also got a lot of good house ideas.

Was touring around the state, no problems with GPS.

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Great device for washington dc and its POI's. Makes it great to plan stops way ahead of time.

What a story...I left my small Island in the Pacific Northwest early June on my '02 Harley Road King Police (decommissioned)and rode up thru the Chilcotin ranching country of B.C.,then out west and up the Cassiar Hiway with a stop at Hyder AK and then into the Yukon and into Alaska using routes and POI's all the way. Stayed a month touring Alaska, then into the Yukon over the Top of the World Hiway, Chicken etc, to Dawson City and spent a month touring the Yukon, Skagway and Atlin BC before coming down the Alaska Hiway to Northern B.C. and into Alberta. Then toodled southern B.C. and just got back to my shack on the beach on the B.C. Coast. Without my Zumo, the trip would have created considerable pucker power. Love it. It is my only NAGIVATOR!!!

I created new POI's for our local junior hockey team and made them available to all the parents. I then took a trip to Jamestown, N.Y. for the first game of the season...the new hockey POI worked flawlessly...took me right to the front door of the ice arena.

I always bring my GPSr with me on cab rides from/to the airports to keep the cabbies honest.

Went to the VF Outlets there.

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went down to PGE's Timber park and won $25 playing a doubles disc golf tourney -- pro am format.

-11 down was good, but there was also a -12, -13, and -15.

I used mine last Saturday to go to the Largest RV Show in Hershey, PA. I encountered two problems. 1. It seemed like the nüvi wasn't synched with the satellites as I passed one exit before Jill told me to turn. (I should have been looking more closely at the screen). 2. We wanted to eat at an Outback in Harrisburg but the building was empty. Other than that it performed great.

was just in Victoria b.c. used gps every day only got lost when i packed bean bag in suitcase for trip home. the gps sure makes holidays much more enjoyable no time lost being lost and most important got to the wedding on time and at the right place.

Was just there for work. Nuvi keeps me out of trouble.

at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Northern New Jersey. Lovely area and lovely day for a festival!

Just finished using it for finding detours around hurricane damage (fallen trees, street lights out, flooding, etc).

Took my Etrex to Cabo San Lucas to use the trip log to geotag my pictures.

I had a co-worker who had to make a business trip and drive 1500 miles. I lent him my GPS for the trip and he told me after he returned it that he loved it and it made him feel much better about the trip. He was no longer worried about getting lost.

Took a weekend trip with my wife to Wrigley Field. Saw the Cubs win the NL division championship. It was pretty awesome seeing the community come out and support there team.