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

From Poteau, OK to Hurricane Mill, TN.

Just completed a 4000 mile trip from Vancouver to Thunder Bay, ON to Minneapolis and back with our Garmin 750.

we have an office in the town of Saint Helena. Driving this morning from San Jose, the nuvi 760 alerted me to a major freeway delay that I was able to avoid.

hope to be there by lunch

I went to Toronto Canada with my 3 year old garmin 350 last week with updated maps. I was pleasantly surprised that I was getting red light camera alerts in downtown Toronto thanks to poi-factory. Only issue I had was loosing GPS signal with all the tall buildings.

...and boy, it was hot.

I ran into a "cooler" area as I went west, saw a bank sign indicating it was "only" 94 degrees. LOL

From Hurricane Mill, TN to Wytheville,VA.Almost home.7000 total miles for all the areas.Seen many beautiful places.What a trip.

The route leader of a charity run fell sick the day of the event. The charity org. got a substitute route from the dealership hosting the event, but didn't have a ride leader, so they were asking if anyone was willing to lead any groups.

I used my new 765t to lead a small group through the route. I've only had it for about 2 weeks, and don't know how to create routes using the unit itself. (I have used mapsource, but that was not an option at the time) So the garmin became an onboard map, but once I got the swing of it, it worked out great. I only made two mistakes that caused us to double back, which is not bad for a 75 mile track that I've never ridden.

My last trip was from Edmonton to Vancouver via Jasper, Banff, Kelowna. And back to Edmonton via Whistler, Kamloops, Calgary and then Edmonton.
In the begnning, I tried to use Custom Route. Added Edmonton as starting point and vancoucer as the end destination. Then added Columbia Icefiled, Banff, lake Louise etc as waypoints. My Nuvi started taking us on a stramge route from Edmonton to Columbia Icefield. After one hour lost, I figured that we were not on the right track.Then cancelled custom route and slected Jasper as desitnation. Then it put us on right tract. After this I just used point to point for directions and no more issues.

Wytheville,VA to Tidewater, VA.

Seattle,SAn Deigo and soon KC..

I'm not going to write it all again!!! I wrote about 3 long paragraphs of my trip this week-end, wanted to put a smileyface... click the little link thats in blue called "Textual smileys" found the one I wanted ... click back and AHHHHH!!!! it was gone!!! My well thought out story is gone... I'm NOT going to duplicate it... I can only be creative for short periods and that one is GONE!!! Grrrr!!!

Took off w/ Garmin nuvi 760 and GPS60csx (allows me to track speed and distance while keeping the Nuvi on the action) w/ Motorhome, and sonata in tow.
Starting Point - Montgomery AL.
Retiring military -departed for Dallas-family, then KC-friends, Wichita -family, Colorado Springs-family, Back to Jackson TN for funeral, expected but way to sudden.

Ft Hood TX for retirement Ceremony, Odessa TX family visit, San Marcos TX -relax on river, Houston TX- family, Woodlands TX-friends.
Returned to Montgomery AL for medical updates and visit friends while sharing some really good wine.
Departed for Northern AL, Southern TN to visit Jack Daniels and George Dickel Distillery's and antique shops near there.
Then it was off to Valparaisio IN-Friends, Dorr MI - family and memorial service for friends in MI. Back to Memphis TN and Jackson TN.
Stopped back in Montgomery on way to Orlando FL (future home) for some fun house hunting. Then back to Montgomery for surgeries.
Back to Orlando Next week along w/ a few other side trips in FL.
2x blown tires, and few other wild issues made this a unique trip.

Earl's coming.

Used it to find a place to eat.
Windmill action.

i lost my windmill. trying to get it back

Actually, it will be an upcoming trip to Nevada from the SF bay area over the Labor day weekend. Going to the Ribfest at Reno. Looking forward to sampling all the different flavors and winning bbq rib recipes.

I like to see more of the junction views and lane assisting on this trip out of state.

Hope everyone have a safe and wonderful Labor Day weekend!

A few years ago many of my sisses & spouses and I met for a birthday party at Wanda's house. No problem. Then we adjourned to a niece's house on the other side of town. I was the only vehicle of the five with a GPS. Just before the destination, we turned on Pinetree Lane, which is a gravel driveway, through apparent private property. A nice lady laughed as we passed by.. This year we all gathered again and the routine was the same, except everyone had a GPS. Barbara & I in the lead, turned early, then watched everyone else slow down, then proceed to Pinetree ln. We were at Shirley's house a minute or two before they arrived. Like, "Why didn't you tell us?"

Glad to see that I got my Windmill back.

I missed it.

Phillipsburg, NJ to Charlevoix, Mi to Rochester, NY to Phillipsburg, NJ

Had a last-minute trip to LA/Orange County last week. My GPSr maps were missing some ramps and other highway reconfigurations that have been built in the past few years.

Just to see how the 765T works, went to most of the large malls in NJ Whew

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I took my GPS camping this weekend. It got a lot of use as I found yet another bridge being worked on. Their detour took me way out of the way, but the GPS figured out a shorter route.
It also came in handy when I found out that there was a tourist train in the area. Typed in the address and off I went to find the WK&S Railroad.

Kevin

here i come

used the tomtom this time, cuz the garmin ran outa batteries... but headed to san joser to valley faire mall for shoes then milpitas to target masters for a rcbs bullet puller

Latest trip was out to South Holland.
Another car show.

Took 1st in my class.

Went home after 4 months on the road.

Another great trip.

Anyone have any good Labor Day trip stories????

Blowing Rock NC. Up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway and the surrounding area. I and the Long Suffering Mrs Warlock rode with 7 other couples on a Gold Wing tour of the BRP and went on a daily BBQ hunt.

Used my Garmin 1490t on my weekend getaway to Delaware. I had no issues with the GPS. Surprisingly, my mileage for the trip was 29 mpg (I used my gas receipt and odometer to calculate this), which I had never seen before in the ten years I've had my vehicle (at best low to mid-20's. The only two things that I can think of: 1) I got new tires recently that supposedly have reduced rolling resistance and 2) the built-in ecoRoute function on my 1490t (no, not the Bluetooth add-on) has made me more conscious of my driving style, i.e. I try not to rapidly accelerate or decelerate. Either way, I'm not complaining!

Went out to Cocoa Beach Florida over the weekend with my new 1490T. I really love the traffic feature (came in real handy over Labor Day Weekend!) and Junction View is pretty slick....though I noticed something interesting.

Junction View used to come up just before I came to a traffic junction, but now, after updating the firmware & de-fragging the unit, it now shows Junction View about a mile before reaching the intersection. I don't know if it was the de-frag, or the new firmware, but it came as a surprise.
I think I like it better this way, gives me more time to switch lanes, but I'm still not quite used to it....it would be nice if you could set the distance (like with custom POIs)

I use it everyday

Recently to Jimmy Buffett Concert in Manassas, VA.
FUN
Soon to fly to Washington State.

looking for....of all things....silverware Fun, fun, fun! At least we didn't get lost.

It's good to be home.

Short trip from Montgomery, AL to and around Atlanta. Used POI files from this site to find restarants and shop.

to Meeks Bay Lake Tahoe, CA

Summer Vacation
Phillipsburg, NJ to Charlevoix, Mi to Rochester, NY to Phillipsburg, NJ

With side trips to Whitefish Point and Sault Ste Marie in the UP of Michigan and Letchworth State Park south of Rochester, NY

We went to Kings Dominion this weekend, where we got our first chance to ride the Intimidator 305 coaster... simply awesome. In fact, it's so intense that a lot of people tend to "grey out" during the ride and KD has been tweaking the ride speed a bit in an attempt to minimize this effect.

The GPS routed us away from traffic and took us through a bit of DC to get there - man are there a lot of cameras in DC! One of the more interesting speed cameras looked like 3 cameras set up in a row on both sides of the road, at a 45 degree angle to the direction of traffic. Our Nuvi faithfully reported each one... thanks POI Factory!

I noticed a couple of apparent map glitches when traveling 95/495 around DC where it didn't seem to have the exits just right but it worked flawlessly otherwise.

- Phil

Friends house for bbq and wine and beer.. yummm! Good Times!

I just created my own customized poi file. Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley area with a Yelp rating of 3.5 or higher.

Kinda tricky at first, learning about break lines and the such.

I just did a round trip from Virginia Beach to Charlotte, NC this past weekend.

I have NO IDEA why my Nuvi 885T tried to take us via I-85 business rather than staying on the "regular" I-85 in NC. I followed the recommendation going down, and ignored it coming back. No appreciable difference either way in traffic, road quality, or time to go.

Hmmmm....

All around Baltimore, and away from John Hopkins.

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Just got back from a 7 day trip from San Jose, up along the Oregon coast to Seattle and then on to Bellingham and back. The Nuvi performed flawlessly with one exception: My first night was spent in Crescent City, CA. To get to the hotel, my nuvi wanted me to turn right onto a nonexistent street. When I finally found the hotel, it was down the highway a couple of blocks on the other side of the street.

I had loaded an assortment of POI's to guide me along the way. As others have stated, I wish there was some way to limit the number if times that the proximity announcements play. In an area with multiple POI's there is what seems to be a constant flow of chatter. This was just an annoyance, and the 350 was performing just fine.

no new windmills yet

Crystal Cove state beach for the Pacific Coast Triathlon tomorrow. Should be a fun race. Two years ago there was an accident on the I-405 and my Nuvi was great for getting off the freeway and nav'ing aound the mess. It's been recalled by Garmin (see other threads) but I'm waiting until next week to send it in, so I can have it with me this weekend.

765T Worked flawlessly.

to Nova Scotia and back.

Decided to take my grandmother and wife for a trip up to Jim Thorpe to ride the Lehigh Gorge Railroad. It was a nice ride, just a shame that I didn't have more time to spend in the town though.

Kevin