Keeping the Windmill Alive - Where was your last trip with your GPS?
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If anyone is in danger of losing their windmill, maybe you can share with us the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you use it to seek out special places to go. (Like Thai Food, ice cream shoppes, etc.) Anything to keep your windmill alive 
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This isn't my last trip, but I thought I'd share this.
My sister and her husband just got back from England and Scotland. Before they left they purchased a Nuvi 270. She said it saved their marriage.
With absolute accuracy, it took them down old dirt wagon roads and goat paths until they reached their destination - an old English cottage in the middle of no where that belonged to an old aunt. I saw the pictures of these four ft. wide dirt roads and was amazed that a GPS even knew they existed.
The GPS also was a big help in city driving as well.
After much debate, they were truly happy with their decision to buy it for this trip. She said the could have rented one for $20 a day out there and they stayed 20 days. Considering they paid $400 for it here in the US, it paid for itself. My sister said that if she never used it again, she got her monies worth!
(Being a golfer and a motorcycist, I'm sure she'll be using it again, and again.)
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...... from the Philadelphia, PA area to Niagara Falls, Canada, no problems at all. NY state has some nice country roads along it's southern boarder with PA.
I see by my maps they finally made SR17 a formal interstate(I-86 I think).
.... for most of the part I was on, there were signs indicating "Future I-86"
I found it interesting that for a about mile NY 17 is actually in Pa, yet still maintained by NYS.
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Where Was Your Last Trip With Your GPS?
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Did you check the straightness of your mowing job with your tracking info?
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