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

The 765T did a nice job with traffic avoidances in Cleveland too!

Following my wife visiting museums...

I brought my 680 to drive to the hotel and visit clients.

I pre-loaded their addresses and added them as favorites. Problems with new addresses was to use a nearby restaurant address as a substitute.

An unexpected use arose when the airline lost my luggage and I used my custom POIs to find a Target to purchase toiletries.

All and all, very productive use.

Used it to find the nearest Petsmart and PetCo while we were out of town and the dog needed flea treatment.

My son is in sports so we use our tomtom to travel to all of his sporting events

home to daughters in Colorado

On a recent trip to Salem our Garmin 2720 got us there no problem. My husband predetermined the route, and downloaded it.

On the way home, we gave Garmin freedom to pick the "Fastest Route" home. We didn't have any avoidances checked. Garmin took us through the worst part of the city, with traffic lights at almost every intersection. Luckily, I spotted a route number on a sign that I was familiar with, and we shut off the Garmin and followed our familiar route.

I'm sure it would have gotten us home, but it sure was the long way!

I might do a simulated route to see what the route would be if I choose "Shortest Distance".

I'm in Washington DC for 3 days. I rely compleately on my GPS to get me around.

know you can't get around without either a GPS or a GREAT set of maps.

Had a great trip to Hartsville SC. This is the first time I have used the windmill just to post a message. Somehow I think that is like cheating but its Saturday night and I need a post. Sorry.

in Avon, CT

After going to church, I used it to go to the cementery.

I'm up in Vancouver this weekend; drove up from Seattle. While I had the border selected as my destination, I knew that my trusty 200W would quit on me after the crossing. Nevertheless, it showed I was traveling on Canada 99 (same road as US I-5) to Vancouver for quite some time.

Figured I'd keep it on and running even if it couldn't match up with non-existing maps, since it would presumably still know my lat/lon even without a map. That way, if I broke down or was in an emergency situation I could at least call in my exact location based on lat/lon.

Thankfully, it wasn't needed!

I'm visiting my in-laws, who are temporarily living in the Twin Cities. We drove about an hour west to the World's Largest Twine Ball in Darwin (as popularized in a Weird Al Yankovic song from his late-'80s movie "UHF").

-Dave

Went camping at Hocking Hills State Park over the weekend. Used the Garmin along with the built-in GPS in our Land Rover.

The map you have in your garmin is for North America that includes Canada. That way you don't have to be afraid when crossing the border north wards.
I live north of the boarder and I have in my garmin 670 the N/A map and is working well.

Ok, so it was butchered and packaged but the GPS still got me there. Instead of calling the packaging house and asking directions, I used their Phone Number to reverse trace them to get their address. I then placed it in the GPS and drove 1hour 10 minutes directly to them.

Got to love it!

Kingston NY to Valhalla NY. However due to expected rush hour traffic decided to take a different route down - added 5 min to the expected arrival time, but no traffic at all. Came back up via the Thruway using the suggested GPS route.

next town over. I have been to this post office a couple of times but somehow I can never find it on my own.

I volunteer working elections. As a Field Inspector in Santa Clara County, I'm responsible for overseeing eight to twelve precincts (voting locations) in the county.

That means a lot of running around! By pre-storing the locations of my precincts, plus other nearby precincts, the locations of supply depots, and the like, I get quite a bit of use out of my GPS for the election.

Where's the nearest precinct from where I am now?

Get me to precinct 1136! When should I get there?

Get me to the nearest supply depot!

Setting this stuff up, plus familiarity with using the GPS for these kinds of tasks lets me focus on driving, and not on figuring out "do I turn left or right up here?"

A big help!

Just returned today from a 7405 mile, 27 day, 26 state driving trip.

Visited as far West as Cottonwood, AZ and far North as NH. Visited Sedona, AZ area, Tombstone, AZ, Colonial Williamsburg & Wright Bros. Museum in Kill, Devil, NC.

Quite a few new Rest Areas, Turnouts to add and a couple deletions. Will probably update Rest Areas Combined file in about a week !

My 2008 Taurus averaged 28.7 MPG overall. A lot of local driving in those miles !

I've been using my 765T to get around Southern Ontario, Canada while here on a 3 week business trip. The only feature that doesn't work is the highway speeds. All other features work great, including traffic (and there's plenty of that!)

I've left it on mph, rather than changing it to km/h... keeps me from getting too homesick

Paul

Last trip was to Italy.
Used both GPSs.
Flew to Bologna, trained to Florence.
Stayed in Florence a few days,
then on to a villa in the Tuscan countryside,
Where we spend a week.
First road trip in the countryside I realized I had the GPS set on pedestrian mode.
My wife has a love hate relationship with the GPS, always asking it to guide us,
Yet quick to point out its faults.
We have started to rely on it to much.
My wife asked, before the GPS we used maps, why don’t we have a map?
Duh, navigational aid. Bought a map that day.
Everything went great after that.
Then on to Rome, for a few days.
Where the POIs from this site came in handy.

I took my bride to BHM for a flight. It's a 1:47:00 drive (one way) that saved me $600. the 2010 nuMaps and the LT traffic performed flawlessly. I like my 760.

That was one of our stops during a trip to the football HOF, Cedar Point, and original Wendy's a few years back! Ohio has a number of very nice state parks worth checking out.

I tried to map the left and right fog lines of a road course to get a layout that could be used to determine the best line (at least on paper). I was getting +/- 15 foot accuracy but I don't know it they were all off the same distance or direction or was it random. I need to experiment some.

Used it to go to Kincardine,Ont.

I'm about to use mine for a trip down to Florida.

I've been in Minnesota for the past week visiting the in-laws. While we generally stayed in the Twin Cities area, we did take one trip to Duluth and drove along the north shore of Lake Superior for about 75 miles. On the return trip, we passed through Brainerd and drove along Mille Lacs Lake.

-Dave

in the heart of the Napa Valley.

I won't comment on my last trip at this time , instead I prefer to look ahead to my next trip which is to toronto. Considering the traffic there, I wouldn't think of traveling without my garmin unit on my dash board. I'll post my experiences next week.

gusb

Phoenix to Forest Lakes for our MD weekend camping trip.

My GPS is always on! The other day I had two on the dash because I didn't have a favorite in the newer one.

Bob

A week ago, we used both the 250w and the 60CSx to navigate and log a trip to a campground just outside of Williams Arizona, and then on a day trip to Grand Canyon. At GC, the wife and I did a 2 mile hike (Kaibab Trail) down into the canyon (almost 1500ft) where we were on a photographic expedition. Nice to have both GPS's that have 2 different feature set's. Of course we had to stay until sunset at Mojave Point to get that fantastic set of sunset photo's. It got cold enough that I couldnt feel if I was depressing the camera shutter anymore, except that the photo was being taken. IT WAS WORTH IT!!!

Vanman

Well, just got back from a really long trip.

Home to Lafayette, IN; then through Chicago to Madison Wisconsin; Then to the Mall of America. 5 days later turn around and reverse the whole trip.

I'm just going to state this..... I am NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER going to drive through the City of Chicago, or the state of Illinois again. You people drive like maniacs, and your traffic and tolls suck (Yes, I know the tols are higher in NY City). Please don't flame me over this if you like the state or the city.

Last week we were in New York City. My daughter had surgery in NYU Medical Center. So the daily driving from her home in Brooklyn to NYU Medical Center on the east side of Manhattan was quite an experience. The Garmin got us there and did a lot of rerouting around traffic congestion. Now only if it could have directed us to a parking spot. The garage at the hospital is convenient but pretty expensive.

In times past, my GPS has taken me down some rather narrow and little-traveled roadways. A certain level of common sense is usually adviseable to go along with the GPS's directions.

There is a work location which I travel to from time to time and have been scheduled to be there at 9AM. The GPS showed me an efficient route through the metropolitan area which lessened my driving time.

Now, I am to be at this same location at 8AM. The GPS has repeatedly shown a different route to take. Now, I am driving to the center of the city via the Interstate, and then out toward the suburb. The morning traffic out toward the suburb is light while the suburb traffic toward the city is bumper to bumper.

The distance driven is longer, but the time saved is amazing. I would of never considered this route without the GPS. I suppose my thought on using some common sense with what the GPS says just went out the window!

Currently planning a motorcycle trip from NOVA to the end of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taking my Zumo.

We just traveled about 350 miles with my Nuvi 255W and didn't get lost.

Just got back from a 2 week trip to Germany. Aside from having a great time, having the GPS with me over there was invaluable. I was also able to cut on the GPS in the plane on my way back to the US.

Our last trip was from Tel Aviv, Israel with a rented GPS to the old city in Jerusalem, Israel to buy gift for friends and family.

I use a GPS on or in every vehicle I own and use it every time even going to the store.
Honda Civic navigation
Zumo 660
Garmin 76CSX
Garmin 220
Tom Tom rider 1

Last trip was to San Diego and will be going back next week! Love having my trusty GPS guide me around town!

Our last trip with the GPS was Wisconsin for a long weekend. Went out on a Lake Michigan charter and caught some great fish!!!

ABQ to Colorado Springs: Nuvi 660 (GyPSy) was firing on all cylinders until approaching Raton Pass then she lost satellites. The next 150 miles and driving in and around the city were without guidance. (It's amazing how much a city can change in 25 years.)

Fortunately, after a 12 hour rest GyPSy regained her senses and guided us through the rest of the weekend...until going home and approaching Raton Pass from the North.

She hasn't found a satellite since and a new 780 will arrive next week.

Just returned from San Antonio. Used it to travel all around the city plus some countryside driving. The blue line tracking feature really helped out at times to let us know where we had been the day before.

I have placed most of the addresses of people in our church. When I am asked to visit I just pull up the favorites and drive. The last visit was to a couple that live way off the main road. I drove straight to the house thanks to the gps.

in Westport, CT

Going to Indy tomorrow . . . know the way but haven't used the GPS in a while.

We drove from Ft Wayne, IN home to Clearwater last weekend. I gave my daughter my 760 and used my new 755t for the trip home. I was really impressed in the display and function of the 755t compared to my 760.