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

Cal Bears that is. 10-0 so far this season and out scoring their opponents 491-28.

RUGBY

running out of beer

golf gps for front 9 at monarch bay in san leandro. Forerunner 201 for skating around the park on my e-glide

Uneventful trip south of Baltimore and back. The traffic was not bad - right before the Superbowl, so that probably helped. Nuvi performed well - no traffic incidents on my route to report.

Work Work Work

Be grateful you have a job... Just sayin'.

There was an article in the trash can liner this morning stating if you have a job, you can feel pretty secure. Companies aren't anticipating any more layoffs, but they still are not hiring as they don't know what new regulations the government is going to put on them.

Drove from Daytona, Flor-i-duh yesterday to Moss Point, MS on way to New Orleans today. 540 miles, no problems except Comfort Inn, Moss Point incorrect coordinates. Wrong side of street. will send in correct locations on our return next weekend. Nice place to stay !
Also, wasn't sure whether Welcome Center/Rest Area entering MS from the East alerted me - will check file when I get home too. Who ever is responsible for that file should be shot ! (oops)
Me and my big typing finger !

Doing tour of Plantation with luncheon just outside New Orleans today ! Tomorrow is French quarter visit and Friday is Paddle Wheel boat ride. Thursday have a personal thing to attend.

Gonna freeze our bippys off - not used to this cold(er) stuff !

From work to class when a road was closed - found alternate route. Don't know what I'd do without a GPSr now!

West Hartford, CT

Last trip was to the allergist--and was the first "hard test" for CoPilot on the Android as far as CoPilot's routing abilities. (They proved to work VERY well, especially as said allergist is in a side-entrance in a medical center.)

Next planned GPS usage--hunting down gyro places locally!

start spreading the news...going to NYC

was to Southern France, Italy, and Barcelona, she served me well at those places, and hope she will reprise on the east coast this October on a tour of the east coast to see the leave's changing colors.

I've been using my Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase POI to get to some of the shows that I don't always get to.

Had to take a work trip to Toronto Canada for a few days. It worked as expected. Ihad had to tell it to avoid toll roads because I needed to stay off the 407. I just need to turn the toll road back on when I get to NY again.

using the GPS to run errands around the DC area. Works fine most of the time!

I am going to take my 87 year old father in-law to take his second drivers test today, and I'm going to sneak my GPS into his back seat to see where in the heck they have him drive off to. Might be interesting.

My nuvi 760 CORRECTLY routed me around a 45 minute delay due to a major accident. Glad that I took its advice and didn't ignore like I usually do.

Got a basic Garmin for my daughter. She knows Chicago very well but she keeps the gps in the glove compartment. It has kept her and her girlfriends out of trouble on several occasions when she did get a tad lost. I don't think her or any of her girlfriends really know what a map is.

This made me think of a funny story, well sort of. I went to renew my drivers license awhile back. This older very talkative lady was sitting next to me. She asked how long I had been waiting and I said just a few minutes. She said she had been there 3 or 4 hours. When I asked why, she said that her and her husband renew their drivers licenses at the same time. She takes the test first and then takes her older husband out to drive the route she took about 10 times before he goes in and takes his test. Seems there is always a way to beat the system.

work no play

Tomorrow morning to Vancouver, BC to help my bud's kid move. Finally, a chance to test the nuvi's traffic, and JV!

Yonder and back!

to Louisville, ky

My wife and I flew down to Key West this past Monday and rented a car. I brought our Nuvi 1450 with us and it's been worth its weight in gold.

Yesterday, for example, we drove to Marathon Key (47 miles up the Keys) to some really out-of-the-way restaurant (called "Castaway." Super restaurant, highly recommend it) and Roxy took us right to their front door and then back to our Bed-and-Breakfast in Key West. Took all of the angst out of the trip.

Driving trip to New Orleans and all around NO was uneventful and error free except for hitting a "gator" (truck tire tread) in the middle of I-10 last night outside of Milton, FL. Bashed in rear quarter panel on the car.
Lane Assist feature on the Nuvi 1490 was very helpful in the NO area.
A few changes to Rest Areas file to make for temp closures and a reopening.
NO was a lot of fun but Mr. Weather didn't cooperate for night time activities in the French Quarter.

Drove up to Chicago, GPS pays for it's self ever time I go up there.

I took mine to Austin but forgot the piece that attaches it to the window mount on my normal padded on dash holder.

we have friends coming from Alaska and there are several trips planned! Time for us to update our favorite POIs

GPS last used on a shopping trip out of town.

nyc

I got some time off from work and am on a trip from Home to Vancouver Island.DNX9960 sure helps on the way.Heading home on Monday.

We drove to Ocean City, MD. Stayed for a week. The 2720 was used the entire time we were there and we had no problems with it.

via Waterford and Niantic....

Use gps to find a mall in another county we had been told about.

Dang, after seeing where the DMV had him drive I think I might be in trouble in 20 or 30 years. He drove places I didn't know existed!

rockaways, 2011

Update:

Cal Bears now 14-0. Current scoring total 872-38. Yeah double checked the totals.

RUGBY

NYC

Loaned it to a friend so he could find an address in a nearby city.

I use mine daily at work to keep track of where I've been.

I hard wired my unit (Nuvi 265wt) so that it comes on and goes off when I start up and shut down my vehicle. I therefore use mine everyday!

Cleveland was my last trip. Had some reception issues that I am trying to sort out.

Saturday evening I was at the Public Library looking for the after hours drop box and a teenager pedestrian showed me where it is.

Then he asked me if I knew where the ice skating rink is.

I looked it up on my 295W and it was about 3 miles away. He was shivering in his light jacket and I asked him if he was driving. He told me that he could not drive because of health problems.

So I took him there. He said that his friends would be there and would take him back home.

You did your good deed for the day.

I used mine last weekend when I was out of town in a rural area. I heard over the car radio that there was an accident on the only major highway going north blocking all lanes and I was unfamiliar with the area. The lifetime traffic has no coverage in the area I am traveling through, so I routed myself to a nearby town 20 miles away and detoured onto another highway to link back to that major highway further north of the accident. Thank goodness for the garmin. I only lost 40 minutes on the detour rather than waiting who knows how many hours on the stopped traffic at the accident site.

When to Nassua co. and just used it for where the cameras are.

Boston, MA Garmin says go this way for I-84 it took me on a scenic route then back onto 84 lost some time because speed was either 25 to 45mph as compared to 65 won't do that again.

Yesterday...Encanto then back home.

My weekend was very busy.. Have a nice Valentine's Day everyone.