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

On our way from Vancouver Canada to Desert Hot Springs California. Taking the Coast Highway through Oregon and California - WOW.

What's the difference in the modes?

What's the difference in the modes?

Mall of America

will be headed to san antonio (tx) tomorrow.

Dover Delaware to Cleveland Ohio and back on Thanksgiving week.

to Tempe run. Sure is great to have estimated time of arrival

we went to Az and it worked great

it rained all weekend. didnt go anywhere... bummer

Getting ready for a road trip to WI. Want to tweak the custom voice file before we leave.

My wife took the 260W on her trip to my daughter's. It is not that far away but she doesn't pay attention when I drive so the Garmin will provide a reliable route when she is by herself. Good for shopping too.

Michael

Turned on the GPS at the border, choosing a dim sum place in Richmond as the destination.

It seemed a little strange that the route was different from a previous trip, but I continued on, as I wasn't carrying a map. The GPS took me off the limited-access highway onto the suburban and city streets, wandering all over the Fraser river delta, adding a good hour and a half to a one-hour trip.

After leaving the restaurant and plugging in Home as the destination, the arrival time for this one-hour trip was shown as five hours away.

Hmmm, better reset. Now the arrival time was 55 minutes and the route looked like major highways.

After thinking about it, my 10-year-old grandson, who likes to explore the settings, must have set it for pedestrian or off-road or at least avoid major highways. At least the dim sum was very good.

I visited someone I knew in a hospital 45 miles away from home, only to find out that he was discharged that very day.

It gave me a chance to use my Garmin though.

Driving to Lake Moses from Healdsburg, CA with my new 265WT.

was to Minneapolis

Sedona AZ.
Red light camera and speed camera d-base worked.
Next trip Austin Texas

Just Xmas shopping to some local shops I hadn't been to before, but that would probably be further than anyone in the "Frozen East" (TM) would probably be going right now!

I am headed to Atlanta, GA.

Just took a trip to Orlando from Maryland.

Nothing special, a trip to Mont Sutton from Montreal, the unit keeps wanting to take some strange route which we ignored - like turning left when we knew we had to turn right at some point. May be one day we will try its route but we absolutely had to be there by 9am. Luckily I had taken "recalculating" off the tts list. Btw I am alternating between shortest and fastest profile (which seems to want to take a permanently congested route around my house, and no way to do a specific road avoidance on my nuvi 255w), shortest works fine for my inner city driving.

WAAS is supposed to be more accurate. It supposedly narrows down your location. I haven't really noticed a big difference though with WAAS turned on. I always leave it turned off on my GPS.

I always use it to go hom even if I know where it is...

From Dallas area to Glendale AZ. GPS worked great and used the POIs to find food , places and gas. Found that some of the rest areas were closed, not there, or have no faacilities. Will post the update when I get back home and confirm the cooridinates.

Leaving at 3:00AM on Dec 23rd Pooler GA to Youngstown Ohio. Done the trip many times but the Garmin will be keeping us on track with the occasional rerouting on the way to go the way I want to go. Have a safe holiday everyone.

Trip went well. Of course the GPS took me way I was not familiar with but worked out to verify one of my POI listings that I do not go by on a regular basis.

Monarch Bay Golf course using a golf gps... good ol cali weather!

Merry ChrismaHannahKwanzika

We just returned from a weekend in Montreal. My 265WT was invaluable in navigating to various places. It sometimes took me several tries before the GPS would recognize the street names but in the end.....it was great !!!!!

We took ours on a few Christmas celebrations/light looking. The most interesting use of the GPS was when we were in a drive-through style one that was a dud and we would celebrate when traffic got faster than 2 MPH indicated on the GPS.

From Beaufort, SC to Montreal, Quebec and back... just last week.

I took my new garmin nuvi 265wt that i got for christmas from Dallas to Odessa which was an 11 hour trip due to the snow storm around Abilene. I just wish there were traffic updates outside of the metroplex.

I guess it qualifies as a trip, I went someplace I have never been before.
I recently became involved in geocaching. I load the caches into my c330 to get me close and then get out and use my GPSr to find the hide.
So for the last week and a 1/2, while I am on vacation, I have gone someplace new, almost everyday, with the 330 leading the way.

Made the trip to visit family.
Funny how the Pioneer AVIC and the Garmin Nuvi 465T decided that I should take different routes.
From Detroit to S. ILL, one via Chicago the other via Indy.
I chose to follow the Garmin as I have very little faith in the AVIC in-dash device.
Trip mileage differed by 34.2 miles GPS vs. Trip Odometer.

Through CT, NY, NJ, PA, MD, WV and VA then back through MD, DE, NJ, NY and home to CT.

Went down for the Capitol One bowl and then to Disney World. Never got lost.

Los Altos Gun and Rod club todo some shotgunning. Damn thing took me the long way. But at least it I found some new twisties thru the mountains for a great motobike ride!

Just returned from a trip to WI. Nuvi routed us around a traffic backup and worked great as usual.

I don't drive my diesel around town much - use it for long trips. I did short drive yesterday, mainly to check the NUVI 5000. This GPS is a nice 7 inch screen, but has taken an hour or more to find satellites on 4 or 5 occasions. Worked fine! I have contacted Garmen and they did not have much to offer, other than reboot.

Used my nuvi 760 to route around some traffic. Saved me probably 40 minutes.

I just finished an about 1950 miles trip from Northern Ontario to Southern Texas with my Nuvi 765T. The unit performed almost perfectly and I'm very happy with it. Once I set American Jack on mute and when I wanted to turn him on again the screen locked. I tried to hold the power button on off for ten seconds several times but it wouldn't help. After I turned the unit off for 15 to 20 minutes it worked again. Also twice in Indianapolis the screen went a kind of bluish. That lasted for two to three minutes each time and it went back to normal. Otherwise the 765T worked fine.

From: Montreal QC
To: Myrtle Beach, SC

Planning the same trip again this year with the family.

to run errands at lunch time. saved myself a bunch of time too I might add...

Just finished a 550 miles trip to Houston,tx and not one wrong turn! thanks to my Garmin..

my nuvi 760 helped me find this great little restaurant for dinner

tried to use it, but battery life didnt last more than 15 mins.. ugg.. time to get a new battery

Just went on a trip from Denver to Arches National Park to the Grand Canyon before finally heading to Los Angeles. My nuvi was a great help and found a bunch of shortcuts along the way!

I've seen this on my unit, but not sure what it does. What's it do???

The Last trip i made with my Garmin nuvi was a couple of days ago to go to blue mountain up in the pocconos.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/5698

I recently took a trip and the GPS wanted me to get off the freeway and get right back on. There was not traffic reported on the GPS so I don't know what the deal was. I didn't do it of course but thought that was a little weird.

This past summer, I took my GPS on a family vacation to San Diego, Flagstaff, and Pheonix. Before leaving home, I had found the exact locations of our hotel rooms via Google Earth's street-view. My family memebers thought I was a little geeky in using the GPS, but as the week progressed, their opinions changed. A flight was canceled and we arrived at 11PM in Flagstaff via a taxi ride from Pheonix (compliments of the airline). We were able to get our rental car and were absolutely exhausted. The GPS took us unerringly through an unfamiliar city to our hotel room. There was not a single complaint about me "messing" with the GPS during the remainder of our trip.