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

My daughter plays volleyball, and we travel to all the away games . My garmin has played a big part in finding these schools. Found out last night that one of the parents had missed her girl playing in the sectional tournament game.
She could not find the school until it was to late. Sometimes these trip are 2 hours away or more. After the game was over Nicole ask me if i had seen her mommy, I said no . That night my daughter told me that Nicole's mom had made the trip but,it was to late for the last game of the season. She just could not find that school.
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Garmin 750 nuvi

To work this morning. No, I know the way there...but I can check how fast I need to drive to be there on time.

To Topeka, KS. Took a football team there to play Washburn University.

Saco, Portland,and Auborn.
Picked up a bunch of lobsters on the return...cheap prices.

And I think I got photo'd a couple of times. We need to get a European Red Light and Speed camera poi file going. Any takers?

Heading back to Sea_tac for a few days

All I can say is GOOD LUCK!
In fact - for anyone heading to the UK I would suggest that they consider every road off the motorways has a speed camera just around the corner - they are EVERYWHERE - probably why noone has bothered trying to locate them all. Would send your machine nuts!

Worked perfect in Maui, we didn't buy a map and we were able to find all the places listed in the guide book. I want to go back to Hawaii....

Used it this weekend for a trip out to Hershey and having the bridges file helped take me over the Tappan Zee instead of the GW.

Going to Knoxville for Turkey Day. May get to try out the Smoky Mtn Nat'l Park POI file.

Tour of Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center and St. Augustine. All went well except when Emily, my C340, tried to send us into a restricted area, with a large man with an even larger gun! Thankfully he must get a lot of us since he just told us where to turn around instead of shooting first and asking questions later.

Thanksgiving will be the first significant trip in recent weeks, and I'll be counting on the traffic information to be up to date! Looking forward to a relatively non-stressful trip in the AM; the return is generally more busy.

Safe travels to all!

Ok, we took a trip up to North Carolina to a wedding. We decided we would leisurely drive up there and have some fun with the GPS. We both agreed that it would be a blast to visit all the covered bridges between Florida and North Carolina. Wow was I surprised!

First off let me thank everyone who spent the time and energy to create the wonderful POI's on this site for items such as Covered Bridges. We utilized the POIs for Covered Bridges on this site and they were right on the money. A few of the bridges had washed away or been moved, but we did experience over 20 bridges.

My advice to you is when you plan that next "necessary" trip to visit relatives, you also take the time to add in a little fun for yourself. Utilizing the POI's on this site to help you "stop and smell the roses" is a wonderful way.

BTW... I wish we could post pictures here since I took an enormous amount of pictures of the foilage and bridges we experienced. It would be a nice way to share the experiences of using the POI's on this site.

If your willing maybe post the pics at one of the free sites, photobucket.com or Tinypic.com. those may be interesting.

It was great with the free philippine map that I downloaded. The C330 was good.

Delmont

Nuvi360

Nuvi 650 was used to navigate our trip to Myrtle Beach, SC. Great time!

well, winter is finally here. Pool is closed for the season, frost every morning.

How many days until spring?

We were invited to a friend’s ranch outside of Buffalo TX for Thanksgiving, so on Wednesday night we headed south through the heavy traffic in the Dallas / Ft Worth area. I had preplanned two routes for our 750 using Mapsource so when the one was jammed we were able to switch to the alternate route. I love the route capability of the 750. Well, back to the trip. As we traveled, the hunger monster attacked and we decided to stop and eat. We tried the built-in POIs but they did not show the restaurant we were looking for. This is why we load the POI Factory POIs. After calling up the desired restaurant list, we selected the one on the route and proceeded to have dinner. When we were about an hour out of Buffalo our friends called and said they were stuck in heavy Houston traffic and would barely beat us to the ranch. We said we were going to stop to get whipped cream, as I had forgotten to pack it in the cooler, and they asked if we would also pickup milk. Seeing that it was 8pm, we feared the grocery store in Buffalo (population about 1800) would be close by our 9pm arrival time. Not knowing were the closest grocery store was located my wife used the built-in POIs to find a local store on our route. The 750 took us to the new waypoint and then took us back to our route with only a 15 minute change in our arrival time. It is really great to be able to find destinations and then have accurate voice directions. The return trip Thursday night was uneventful. Next trip is to Phoenix for Christmas.

Wednesday: MD to LBI, NJ
Thursday: reverse of Wednesday
Saturday: MD to Eastern Panhandle of WV and back

When I went to program in my father's address in WV, the street name didn't come up. I remembered they changed all the street names some years back when they put in a reverse 911 system, so I tried his former street name... voila! Point to point directions!

I used it when I did my black friday shopping. It was good at finding the next closest store that I didn't know existed!

Drove to Murrieta, CA on friday and Jack still will not talk to me-- I have an appointment with a Garmin doctor to check him all over-- I think they will find the problem and we will be traveling together again.

Got lost so I used my GPS to guide me home

It depends on where you are....

we took TRIP TO estes park co. was great never a hick up form my trustee 765T the weather was warmer there than in missouri?!

I used my 660 the past week to find the ROAD!! The fog here has been soooooooooooo thick that I'm flying on Nuvi these days.

This summer I spent a month business trip/pleasure in a few cities in France and Geneva Switzerland.

I'm glad I've purchased the Europe maps. It definitely saved my wife and i. With the language barrier in a few cities I've ventured, the navi never failed to point me in the right direction. It definitely helps to learn another language or at least enough to get you by.

Our best venture was a scenic drive through the alps in Switzerland.

We drove a windy road up the alps, made a stop at dixiem dam, parked our car on a train that took us through the mountains, once we got to the otherside it was absolutely gorgeous, then we stayed in a hotel near blausee (lake front view of the alps), next day we drove to interlaken. Europe has so many round a bouts it was confusing, luckily my navi's impecable direction never got us lost. We had a great time! I hope to do it all again soon.

Did i mention that I used my navi on our honeymoon in Amsterdam? Well, that's another story for another day.

Bon Chance!

Are you rated for instruments?

Montclair State University

Nuvi360

We went to Charlotte, NC for the holiday. The lifetime traffic subscription was worth it for that trip.

The wife wants to take another day trip to hit the slots and track at Charleston WV. I think I might save this location as a favorite this time.

I drove from Atlanta to New Orleans over Thanksgiving. The gps (660) was great on the trip. Helped located upcoming rest areas and to notify people of my arrival time. It also helped find a restaurant (Casamento's on Magazine St). Best oysters in town.

If I wasn't before, I AM NOW! (LOL)

...Work (no fun there.)

Great for my Garmin with the free philippine maps that was downloaded from the web.

Biloxi, starting out 12/13 from NJ

every day at work ,i always find my way with my 255w

Just got back from 10 days shopping at the Christmas Markets in Germany along the Rhine River. I was able to find my way back to the ship using my Garmin without getting lost. Only problem was finding the satellites in cities with many tall buildings.

Used it recently for a business trip to Washington DC. I stayed beside the capital and had to travel every day 45 minutes to my business location. Though the GPS wanted to take me to a GATE that is currently inoperational, it accurately took me to the vicinity of my meeting area. Once I found the meeting area, I was able to plug in its parking lot and was rewarded every day with accurate instructions back to the site.

In DC we used it to find restuarants since every place needed us to walk to it we did not want to make mistakes.

Traveling back to OH next week with the family - looking forward to how the 760 will route me around traffic through Birmingham, Huntsville, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, and the Akron/Cleveland area. - it did a great job up to Charlotte NC at Thanksgiving.

From New Orleans (with snow!) to Hattiesburg, MS for a gig last Thursday. Boy the traffic (now lifetime) feature sure is a lifesaver!

I always use it on the way home.

Traveling back to OH from AL - from mid 70's to <30 degrees F

Took my Garmin 360 to Chicago. The signal went in and out between the skyscrapers a couple times but overall it performed extremely well. I've had my GPS for a couple years now and I am still amazed by the functionality of this little gadget.

Guided me well on a snowstorm yesterday in Buffalo. Visibility was so poor but having the gps saved the day.

Well wasn't my last trip, but was my last major trip. Had to go to Canada for my company. Guided me beautifully! No problems, I then finished up what I had to do and figured I would take some time for myself and headed to Canada's Wonderland, no problems there either.

snowboarding season. to the slopes !

I'll be leaving the cold and snow of the northeast for the sunny shores of Florida. Brief stop in Daytona, then again in Melbourne, then off for the Everglades and Key Largo for New Years eve.
Round trip should be about 3000+ miles.
Do I get a wind mill for that?

Joe

Thought I'd be a good son at Christmas time and take my mom on a shopping trip to the upstate of SC (about 65 miles away). She wanted cloth for a quilt she was working on. Entered Fabric in the Garmin... Hancock, yeah that's a good one. Drive according to Jill, find an long abandoned store that I can only assume was Hancock Fabrics. OK the next one is All American Fabric, cool lets go, 20 minutes later I see a huge sign ALL-AMERICAN FABRIC. SWEET!!!!! Guess the weeds four foot high around the building wasn't a good sign. So! We know there's a huge cloth store another 40-50 miles up the road. Jill gives me questionable directions out of this little strip mall and I made a wrong turn onto a four lane highway and Jill tells me "Make a u-turn"... make a u-turn in the middle of a four lane highway??? Then as you all are probably aware of Jill started to get snotty because I wouldn't swing a u-turn... Sheesh what a trip!

Anyhow that's my Garmin gripe. Merry Christmas all!

Trying out wife's christmas present. She used to freak out about driving in Memphis. With the Nuvi leading the way it was the most relaxed she's ever been. It was spot on all weekend long except for locating a Wendy's in Tunica, MS and a Sam's Club in Southaven, MS. Figured out the POI thing when I got home and don't expect that to happen again. Love the forum.