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

My 1690 is performing well back in OH. I use it a lot to get acclimated to the area. It's great for house hunting.

My wife uses it mostly for gradge sales

No major issues. Stopped by PF Changs in White Marsh - did not show up in the Nuvi list, but given it's a newer location, that's understandable. Traffic warnings were pretty much on target and timely. In general terms, a better experience today compared to yesterday's hotel location error

Spent a month in Fla. Not typical Fla. weather, mid 60s, windy. But...I wasn't shoveling snow!

into the rain

We just returned from a trip to Michigan. On the way back to north Georgia, we checked virtually every Home Depot within a couple miles of the route for PJM Rhododendron's. We used the Garmin to locate the stores along the route, checked the map to see their location and then used the phone number in the POI to call them. You might ask why - well we bought some at our local store and decided we needed more. Of course they are not sure they will get anymore in so we decided to check other stores. It was good fun and kept my wife occupied. Unfortunately we were not successful. We will be checking with a local store today to see if they can order more for us.

The Home Depot POI file was great.

Went to Pitt to see the Penguins play the Flyers, though I am a Caps fan. My Garmin 660 was especially helpful in downtown Pitt with all of those rotaries and bridges.

Kingston NY - Boy Scout camp Henderson (Maryland NY) - Cooperstown and back.

on our way to florida made a side trip to gatlinburg,tn.reset our destination to 75 south from gatlinburg.took us to a stoplight /turn left but to get on the road we were supposed to it was forbidden to change to that lane .went back around again same light went to a gas station and a emt pulled up at the same time .if you turned right at the light instead of left there was another ramp that allowed you to get to the to 75 south exit.had another issue in ft. myers but another day.i was using my 650 which i have owned since joining poi factory (over 2 years).wonder if newer map would have helped.
mike

I didn't take a long trip but I did leave my Nuvi255W on while I drove some backroads (forest roads) in central/northern Arizona. I was pleasantly surprised that the Nuvi showed the numbered Forest Service Roads. This will be extremely useful with my recreational topo map books as I will be able to see the different FS roads on the GPS. Frio Frijoles!

great unit wish i had it longer

for a bday party!

I have traveled many years without a GPS and wish I had one back then. Now I use it for any new location that I need to go to. I could not survive without it now.

We went to Red Bluff in southern Ms.

"The only problem I had was trying to connect in pedestrian mode when walking around the mall right in DC. I let it go one time for about 30 minutes without ever finding a satellite."

I wonder if they do jamming to prevent accurate GPS fixes in certain locations

We used our 205 on a Maui trip. We had some trouble acquiring sats on the drive from Hana through Haleakala back to the airport at Kahului. Otherwise it was a great help!

Took my nuvi to Reading, PA to watch couple of concerts at the Berks Jazz Fest. It guided me to all the concert venues without any problem.

The 750 worked fine on a weekend trip to Chicago. Easily took me to the attractions I had time to visit.

5 weeks and 3500 miles later.

From my home town, 1/3 of the route was different on the way out than going home which was cool. I live 6 miles south of where I "started".

Saw a couple of new roads and a new way through Colusa.

Ft. Bragg was cool. The POIs (that came with my nuvi... I'm still in the noob-learning mode) directed me to the fishhouse we wanted to eat at as well as a few other sights and one out-of-date Shell station.

Next trip... Minnesota, hopefully with lots of radius alerts for National Monuments... (my next "My Motorcycle In Front Of..." photography project.)

Drove to the Cherry blossoms. Big mistake! The place was packed....

Mather Campground on the south rim of the Grand Canyon via Tempe, AZ. Planning to use nothing but the GPS for the entire trip!

Just returned from a trip to Texas. Man the traffic in Texas is horrible. It's the fault of the highway designers. Seems all of the major highways have frontage roads running along them. There are way to many entrance and exit ramps, that cause a constant merge state of mind, doesn't help that the truckers have the right to be in any lane instead of restricted. Then there ae the speed traps. The Texas drivers are so paranoid about getting caught they seem to drive way under the limit.

use the heck out of my 350....Have a 360, and a 370 for trips to Europe. I personally think that the 300 series is a great one. They do all I NEED them to do, and more! Do not use the traffic part of the 370 because in San Diego, there is always traffic, so no need for that here.

We just got one of those too and are really enjoying it

sacramento, ca
Bradshaw Christian High School.
Son just passed the last interview and was accepted.. yoohoo...

althought the gps put the school in the middle of field a quarter mile away...

update to my 650 and florida trip. we went to airport from our motel (no problem getting to motel first time) to pick up rental car for friends daughter and son in law. had reset garmin to motel as home. we got lost . garmin had us going in circles again .finally stopped at gas station again and luckily a young guy said oh i live right across from where you need to turn so follow me , but being the nice guy he was he drove us right to the motel parking lot . it was confusing as the gas station we stopped at was 3 miles from the motel where it had us going in circles.
mike

Since here in OH, I have been using mine to familiarize myself with the area and more so to locate houses. It comes in handy to plan a route based on the houses you want to look at. I have had no other issues with the 1690 since the trip up when the Edge network decided to quit, but the garmin portion worked flawlessly.

Had another trip past Baltimore recently and received zero warning about a 15-20 minute delay on I-95 north of White Marsh. The accident must have occurred at least 20 minutes before we passed as emergency vehicles were on the scene and only a highway assistance truck had gone past on the shoulder as we waited. Not a major issue, but at least a little annoying. The rest of the trip was uneventful (though traffic was heavy).

Went down to Staples Center for the M Buble concert.

I have the GTM 20 with FM TMC. Pretty good traffic indicator and lifetime to boot.

found some places in Orillia ,Ont.

Short trip to the Sponge Docks in Tarpon Springs FL.

Local

Phoenix and then the South rim of the Grand Canyon!

North Attleboro in the former, then somewhere around North Providence in the latter.

... they closed the San Mateo Bridge due to an accident and I have to find my way over to Dumbarton bridge

No major trip this week, but always keeping the GPS on for speed traps!

Southbound traffic was backed up on I95 early this afternoon - the roadway traffic signs gave us a heads up, but the Nuvi (TTN service) did not give any indication of trouble. Fail for the southbound leg.

The northbound return trip also included major traffic jams, but we did get a warning in plenty of time to avoid the delays. Passed.

Overall grade for the day c+ to B-.

montreal to boston. worked great!

Went to Supermarket

Cataloochee Valley in the great Smoky Mountains National Park to see the elk. One lane gravel road with two way traffic. The roads showed up on the GPS but I had to use a paper map since I didn't have any coordinates for the location.

my Garmin 370 and 360 (2 just in case one poops out)was France. My wife and I tour'd the whole country, from the top to the bottom, side to side. This August, it is Rome, France, Corsica and Barcelona, Spain.

I will never want to take a trip without it, and that's the truth!!

Never leave home without it...

The bad thing about owning a gpsr is that once you use one, you get so used to it that you can't go around the block without it.

Used Lola when I drove down to Florida. Since I-40 was closed in NC, I had to drive down I-75 to I-10 and then across to I-95 since I planned on staying overnight in Titusville. Drove into Miami to the cruise terminals without a hitch, even though the roads get kind of tricky down next to Miami. Driving back, I cut across Alligator Alley, (kind of interesting), and then up I-75 to Tampa. Drove across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, (a beautiful structure), and then back home. No trouble whatsoever with Lola. She had a very nice temperment on this trip.

Lola was a show girl. Showed the route well.

Our last 10 day vacations was the New England states last fall. it's was our second New England trip in two years. you decide if we love it.

Nice trip.

too rainy

took mine with me to Austin, TX (work related). gotta love the gps as i only have to let it guide me around instead of looking through the map. my co-workers were impressed.