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

My last trip?
NONE!
Its winter...at the moment? 5+ inches of snow outside my door.

The Garmin got us there just fine. Wish Garmin had a category for "free parking areas". It cost $10 to park, plus admission.

To top things off, the show was very small. We were told that because of the economy many dealers chose not to exhibit.

We are looking for a small motorhome. There was only one there. All the rest were pull along trailers.

There is another Expo in R.I. next week, but heard the same thing aabout fewer exhibitors.

Guess I'll keep checking Craig's List. Not happy so far with the ones we've seen from there. So many misrepresent a/k/a LIE about the condition of the vehicle.
I found this link last night that people can leave feedback for these bad sellers.
http://www.craigslistfeedback.net/Feedback/index.php

Awesome directions, awesome sights, awesome skiing and awesome food. Quite a bit in the middle of nowhere...thanks Garmin!

I have tried WAAS and can't tell much difference

- jgracey

Leaving tomorrow for Fort Meade, will checkout some crab shacks.

Nuvi360

going to phoenix to check out the sights

As I have read on this site before, "How did I ever travel without a GPS unit". Among the great places my NUVI has taken me where I have never been, my vacation rental home near Disney. This thing is great and greater with POIs from this site. Thanks to all for your hard work.

Michael

thought I knew where I was going.... Thought wrong. turned the wrong way off the highway when little Garmin started beeping that it wanted a u-turn !

i havent been outside of germantown-gaithersburg-rockville maryland in months. it's about a 25 mile radius. sad, sad life.

i wanna go to hawaii

When I travel with navigation I'm impressed at how my wife and I can go anywhere we want without an argument.

The only way I can do that is for one of us to stay home.

Took my daughter and a couple of her teammates to another elementary school where they played in a basketball tournament......and they won the tournament!

Montclair State U

Used my Garmin to find a few houses to look at.

Seattle and test file for Frisbee golf!

To Stockton and then back to a specialty grocery store in the SF Bay Area.

Nothing too exciting lately - today I went to verify the location of a few new speed cameras in my area (Montgomery County).

-Dave

Alexandria, Va

Wow, I've been away from here for a while....

anyway, I've been to Louisville, KY; Nashville, TN; Ashville, NC; Pawley's Island, SC; and Atlanta, GA in recent months.

I'm also planning trips to Blowing Rock, NC; The Mall of America; Madison, Wisconsin; and Orlando, FL for starts this year.

I've been driving with the GPS at all times just to see if the POI red-light and speed trap file works well.

I mostly keep mine on all the time also. Partly for speed correction, partly to see where I am.

My trip to Springfield In, to the new Lincoln was great and my Nuvi 350 made it easy to get around.

Just went on a recent 3 day trip to Freeport, Grand Bahama. I was stationed there in the 80s when the Air Force Base was still open. I don't have anything loaded in MapSource on the island, so I turned on the "Trip Log" on my nuvi 680 and proceeded to map out the island in 'Off Road' mode as I drove around. BOY, WAS THAT A HANDY TOOL! It kept us from getting lost while exploring populated and unpopulated areas. I have created POI files for Freeport in both CSV and GPX formats and will share with POI-Factory. We are going back to Freeport for a full week in the coming months and I intend to add both the East and West Ends of the island, once again using TRIP LOG. There is a way to extract the Trip Log using MapSource. Again, a very handy feature.

On a hiking in northern Scandinavia I lost my way, because I thought I could recognize the path to the cabin I planned to spend some days with my friends, in stead of using my GPS. Fortunately it was in the middle of the summer, no black night, could walk until I found my way back, and lots of free, delicious drinking water. I was careless having the strap of the camera hanging out of my pocket, while walking through the bush land, and lost it. I found my way back using the GPS, although I had to cross several streams 3-4 feet deep. The short version is, next morning I decided to find the camera 5-6 miles up in the wilderness, because I have made a track on my way out. My GPS at that time was a GPS12, not very sensitive in the forest, and having an effective accuracy on say 5-8 meters (15-25 feet). After 3 hours searching back tracking, I was so lucky to find my camera hanging on a branch!! Fortunately it had not been raining that night. Pic of the spot:
http://picasaweb.google.dk/Cadillac1994/HikingInSarekNPSwede...
And some of my best pictures was in the camera!!
Take a look at the pictures from the National Park.

I use my GPS on a daily basis. It keeps me on the right track to my destination. It also helps my wife find her way past the red light cameras without tickets!
Thanx for the POI's!

Kingston NY - Eden Mills Vt - with a side trip to ben and Jerry's factory outlet

I check the estimated arrival time with the tolls allowed and compare to the avoid tolls. If there is only a small difference, then I take the avoid route.

Kennedy airport, got caught in some traffic pressed the detour and got there on time for pickup.

Returned recently from a trip to Scottsdale, AZ from Palm Desert, CA. Arizona is one place that the speed camera POI's come in very handy.
JeffSh

I decided at 1 in the morning to drive from austin to chicago. It was quite a trip, I think I just wanted to use my new GPS

Warning, this will be your one and only warning. I'm headed to Florida to watch the shuttle launch. I'd suggest staying clear of I73 and I95 between the hours of midnight and noon tomorrow as I will be blazing a trail.

A note to the South Carolina SP, your Dodge Magnums and Chargers don't stand a chance. Bet you wish you had your Mustangs back.

I guess I really need to break sown and get an update for the maps in my unit. Mine are now 3 years old!

Have you downloaded the I-95 Speed
Traps ???????????

If nothing else , the ding-ding will keep you awake !

Take it easy near Daytona Beach - I live near there !

Well, I made it down and back. No launch. Not till Sunday, anyway. No tickets, either. Only saw a couple of cops, they weren't interested in me.

I did have one show up on the rear bumper with all lights on. It took me a minute to realize that the third headlight in the middle of his grill was a crotch rocket he was chasing and not after me.

Here is a picture of the trip page. All the "moving" time was in two seperate chunks. Stops were only for gas, nature and food. The max speed is a lie. I reset it a couple of times for self preservation. No need giving the cops a freebie.

http://ftabor.mystarband.net/images/556.bmp

I got my GPS for christmas and I'm really enjoying it. I haven't had any long trips with it. Just 1 to 3 hour trips. I just got some GPS mounts for my motorcycle and I'm in the process of planning our summer vacation and will be using the GPS on the motorcycle tons. I can't wait for this summer.

I can't wait to check out the beaches and parks files!!

Jill took me to the hospital yesterday for some out-patient surgery. I am so impressed with my GPS. Never having been there before, the Garmin took me right to the front door. I love it.

Surgery went fine and I'm recooperating well today. Very tired from the drugs but doing well.

was a work run out Nevada. (Reno, Carson area). I came home and ordered a Nuvi 255w. I'll be heading out to Texas in 2 weeks on a work run and then taking a few days to run up into Kansas to visit with son and his family. They have a 5 month old daughter that we haven't seen yet. I hope the 255w max speed is more accurate than the max speed on my c340. It would be hard to prove to a police officer that I wasn't speeding by showing him my Max speed when it constantly reads 200 plus MPH! No, I don't fly to work. New 255w should be here just in time before we take off. I can hardly wait!

I wanted to go to the Nike Factory Store in Kenosha. I said it was another 15 minutes from 7 mile road. My wife said it would be half an hour. We brought it up on the Nuvi, and it was half an hour.

Rule #2 - never argue with the wife, she is always right.

Rule #1 - Put the seat down!

Just used it for the map and to power it up. Hasn't been used for awhile so I knew where I was going but wanted to see a map of my driving.

Nuvi 660, went without me, I got a 660 off Ebay that was reported as dead for $30.00 BUCKS. I changed the battery and it made a trip to Florida with a friend of mine. When it gets back I hope he buys it, it's usually a great way to sell a used GPS.

Last few trips were to check out parking for some upcoming shows I am going to.

I was in the Bay Area last week for work, so I used it out there.

This was first experience of my GPSr having poor performance because I was in a big city with tall skyscrapers. Luckily, I had a paper map handy to navigate the streets of the SF Financial District.

-Dave

I'll be taking my Nuvi 760 along next weekend when I go to Natchez Trace State park for my first duathlon race (run/bike/run). To further my GPS usage, I'll be tracking my progress and pace with my Garmin Forerunner 305, making it a GPS full weekend!

Used today

Daughter has taken my faithful Doris to North Queensland to help find her way around the new town. BUT - only for a few weeks......

Took a nice ride on the Harley through a lot of the back roads of South Carolina. Was nice to have a chance to investigate my new area... having the Zumo along certainly makes it less intimidating to wander into the unknown.

100 mile drive to Cooperstown NY - and the first one to use the rest area poi that I forgot I installed. Nice surprise when it went off

It seemed like a good idea at the time. We were vacationing in the Yakima wine region in Washington State. At the time I couldn't find any Lat/Long data for any of them so I marked a waypoint in each parking lot. For some reason as each day and the vacation progressed, I became less diligent in adding the winery's name to the waypoint.

40 some waypoints and no idea if I want to go back, and not postable as a POI.

Sorry.