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

It's not really my last trip, because we don't leave until tomorrow. We're heading up to New England, hitting Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

We are doing the reverse. We have been in NH/MA the last 6 days and starting to head back South to East Coast of FL tomorrow morning via a couple short stops in Upstate NY and 1 1/2 days in Savannah.
Have driven 2025 miles of our calculated 4000 mile trip.

Uneventful so far !
Had the required Maine Lobster Roll at a neat restaurant in Rye, NH yesterday named Petey's.

for some shopping and seafood =)

use gps with traffic to get around houston everyday

Went from San Francisco to Salt Lake City through Grand Canyon to Yellowstone>

April was the longest trip I have taken with it. I got made at it going thru Oklahoma. Going from OK city to Tulsa is toll road and it kept telling me to exit the toll road. Then DUH it hit my like a ton of bricks. I had it set to avoid toll roads. On the return trip 6 hours from home it said what time we would arrive and it was right on the money. As we only stopped for gas it only changed the time only about 5 minutes. Love my nuvi 750

Drive client to and from work

I am curious about your experience with the traffic. My FM traffic unit does not seem to be very useful. I don't find it accurate.

Oh man... My windmill doohicky is gone

I was gone for about 3 weeks and had no internet access.

My Last trip was From West Palm Beach, FL to Brooklyn, NY using my Nuvi 265WT even though I don't need a GPS for direction, I like to the remaining distance.

I live in NC and have been fishing the mountain trout streams. I use Google to find the location of the streams and then head for the one I want to fish. MY last was Wilson Creek. This is a more remote stream on a gravel road. I did manage to catch 3 trout over the four hours I was there.

Heber and back. Worked great once again.

Last trip?
A ride out to the house of a nice tall blond chick I recently met..

THANKS NUVI!!

Off to Alaska by 650GS. Mine will be gone as well.

Before 911, I would take my GPS on an airplane. It was a trip watching the speed/altitude/and flight path.

I think it's safe to say those days are gone...

Used mine to get to the cruise parking lot in Norfolk, VA since I had never been there before.

Left on June 9th drove around the Great Lakes and got back yesterday. Stopped in Winnipeg from the 12th to the 16th for a Royal Canadian Legion Convention.

I used it to find a golf course for a wedding.

Went to Commissary

No freeze-ups and no traffic issues, so a good day for the Nuvi 760

but tried out some really fun backroads in the middle of NE CT

This is dumb but I used it last week to go to the casinos two hours away. Mind you, I've been there so many times my SUV could drive it while I take a nap but I just bought a nuvi 1390 and I wanted to try it out. So far, no difference between the new one and previous 205 and 255. Sigh!

Just bought a nuvi 500. Simply had to put it to task. Spent the prior week comparing the paper map, to Google Earth, and plotting on the GPS where some old iron mines were located. Found all of them I was looking for yesterday. (to my credit within 50 feet of where I plotted them )

what a life saver as we're learning Vegas!

Lac Suel Lake; Lost Lake Lodge, walleye fishing, great trip.

Heavy traffic today, but no significant issues; no Nuvi lockups and traffic information was accurate (and worked just about the entire time!). Good trip.

Just completed our 3800 mile trip going from FL to NH and a bunch of points between. Traveled thru 14 states (11 twice). Averaged 28.14 mpg in my Taurus even tho over 750 miles of the drive was local/town driving.
The cheapest gas I encountered was $2.39/gal in TN and the highest I paid was $2.70/gal.
All Rest Areas alerted properly - however I found two (2) which have closed there rest rooms and one which is now for Trucks only. No other significant problems with my Nuvi 260+.
I will update the Combined Rest Area File on POI Factory later on this week !

Was a great driving trip - we did it in 16 days !

Leaving this weekend for a 2 week camping and geocaching trip. We'll hit 2 national parks we've never visited before - Olympic and Mount Rainier - and also make a stop for Geo Woodstock VIII in Carnation, WA. It should be a great trip. We'll navigate with both the nüvi 760 and the GPSMAP 78S and we'll also geocache using both of them. I won't really need the nüvi for caching since my 78S can do paperless caching but my wife really enjoys being able to use the nüvi as well.

We'll leave Northern California (no, NOT San Francisco, the actual Northern California) on Saturday, the 26th and be on our way North. Wahoo!!!

Yes, I can get to downtown. How to get to the destination once I got to the area was the problem. How to find the parking garage was the bigger problem

Karen to the rescue.

1490T went wacky in San Antonio city limits. Suspect that it didn't know of new roadways near the airport. Certainly didn't know that I was on the feeder road for several miles along I-35. A bit frustrating, as 95% of the trip was the easy I-10 West where I didn't need the help.

Went on camping trip with the family.

We live near Palm Springs and spent last week in the cool climate of San Diego. There was a 40' difference in temperatures!

Three days, two nights, four rounds of golf.

for my first IPSC shoot!!

went to Grand Canyon. Too bad some rds were closed due to fire. It wasn't worth it to drive around the fire. Boy was it HOT!

We took our Nuvi 265WT from southern WV to upstate NY over the weekend, and had fun watching the elevation changes in the mountains, and tracking some of our favorite stops along the way.

There were a few Speed Limit changes that never registered or were off by a couple miles, but we followed the road signs and avoided a ticket. What do we do to let Garmin know about this to fix it?

I will be using my handheld this afternoon for Geocaching

Thinking about the trips I have taken and wish I had more time to go again

Took the wife up to Niagara Falls for a week. The GPS was mostly useful. It kept wanting me to cross the border on a bridge that you need a special pass for, but that wasn't hard to rectify. However, I on the way up there and back, I had it set to the Fastest route. I had looked on google first and knew the route that I wanted to take. The Garmin wanted to take me a different way. I took the Google way and saved 20+ minutes on my estimate!! How can it be the fastest route if I found a faster one on my own? Who knows if I could have shaved off even more time.

Kevin

In and around town

I'm making a Brooklyn to North Myrtle Beach run in July, and will be comparing my 765Ts routing to the nav system in my new 2010 Murano LE.

Hopefully, deciding on which to follow when the directions are different, won't impact me too adversely if I make the wrong decision.

On trip to Lancaster PA.Gps down a good job.

First trip with my Nuvi 1490T.

We live in an rural area so I had never seen the traffic Icon before this trip.

When we left St. Louis on I-44 South, our Nuvi 1490T told us to proceed 190+ miles until we reached the US 65 turnoff in Springfield.

But, about 35 miles south of St. Louis, the Nuvi came to life and told us there was serious traffic congestion ahead and recalculated our route to take us off I-44 at Pacific, Mo. Just as we got to the exit, traffic had come to a stand still. The Nuvi routed us on an older 2-lane highway that ran parallel and within site of I-44 - so as were moving along around 50 mph, we could see the traffic totally stopped on I-44. It routed us back onto I-44 exactly where the road construction zone ended.

It probably saved us at least 45 minutes of sitting in line - very impressive - at least to this kid from the sticks.

Rest Area POI's and State Line POI worked exactly as expected - except I was kind of surprised that it usually warned of both the south-bound and north-boud rest areas within a minute of each other.

Custom route I had created with MapSource avoiding roads I knew would be congested in Branson worked great also.

I would have liked to know if there was a way to ask the Nuvi not to use a certain road since Hwy 76 is the main drag of Branson and is almost alwasys bumper-to-bumper.

There are several bypasses that speed your trip if you know where they go. But, the Nuvi insisted on always taking Hwy 76. After I learned where the bypasses were, I just ignored the directions via Hwy 76 and the Nuvi soon recalculated using the new bypass route. But, it would have been nice to tell it not to use Hwy 76 to begin with.

Except for that, Nuvi 1490T worked flawlessly.

Headed to downtown Oakland, Jack London Square for my volunteer duties at Big Brother Big Sisters fundraising event- Wine Tasting and Silent Auction. We raised $10K!

I've only had hit or miss success with traffic, although that's a function of the radio service and not the 1490T itself. Nevertheless, if you hadn't gotten the warning, you might have blamed the GPS for the sitting and waiting.

Or more precisely, IAH to CLE. I love using the 1490T in off road mode and seeing my elevation (max 35,000 ft), and speed (max 590 mph) as I'm flying home.

Not a big trip. Up at 4 AM. Into Calgary at 7:30. Breakfast at McD's and then a little business. Finished at 12:30 followed by a burger at Peter's drive Inn. Then back up the HWY to Edmonton where in the words of one person from Calgary is "a damn good place for ya"

Bob

california hot and dry

I live in the Washington, DC area (have all my life) and know the area well. I bought my nuvi765 recently for trips to Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania that my wife and I frequently take and it sure makes life easier than having to deal with paper maps. But, one of the great things about this nuvi is the traffic feature and how it has helped me navigate around the frequent traffic back-ups on the beltway(I-495). More than once I have found myself approaching the dreaded "Red Bar" on my GPS to indicate a traffic jam and the unit will then go into rerouting mode to get me around the jam and quickly on my way. I love it!

over to Indiana, car show