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

but we're headed to CA next week!

took us to rental cabin with no problems for my trusty nuvi 760

Miami, FL

Didn't use this past week.

...across southern Arizona and Southern California. Just got back from a 1200+ mile round trip. Our 1490T was a great companion, while our 260 quietly waited for its (thankfully) unneeded backup duty in our suitcase.

GPS made the trip so easy. I remember growing up and my dad always messing with the maps, and missing the turns.

In the middle of our 5000 mile trip from FL up thru the Canadian Maritimes etc, etc.
Had a good deal of GPS confusion when navigating to/from various places on PEI and in Nova Scotia - especially in the vicinity of Peggy's Cove and in the Lunenburg/Mahone Bay area.
Finish up in Canada on Monday. Let's see if things improve for the next 1 1/2 days.
BTW - I do have the latest maps and software updates.

What kind of GPS confusion did you experience? This may help others.

These are typically small roads, even tho they are numbered roads.
The GPS would tell me to take such-such turn - I would take it but in a short distance determine it was incorrect and turn around. Even then it would send me astray in another direction.
Several times I had to stop the routing and start the route again from scratch - "Reinstall" the desired location I wanted to get to. Then the GPS would seem to get the right routing.
It wasn't as if I had put in the wrong address because all I did in reinstalling the location was to punch the same location in the "Recently Found" folder.
Some of the map info also seemed to be years out of date - areas where the road layout had obviously been
altered but certainly was not in the past 5 years as determined by new vegetation size in the previous layout of the road.

... but the weekend isn't *quite* over yet!

Sorry, now rugby this weekend. Thought next weekend is the College 7's. I guess I can make it that long.

I'm going to the Hot Rod Power Tour, then to the Ontario Camaro Nationals http://goo.gl/maps/rv7G

We went to Pella, IA on Saturday. I wanted to drive on paved scenic roads. As expected, Jill did not want to go that way. A surprise was that Jill wanted me to turn onto gravel roads even though I had checked, "NoNo." And on occasion she wanted me to U turn even when I was headed the general direction of my destination.. On the return trip, Jill figured out very quickly my intended route.

We made a quick trip to London, KY to pick up a laptop then detoured through Corbin, KY and ate at the original Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was a nice day trip.

About 60 % done with our mileage on our 25 day trip thru the Canadian Maritmes, New England and various other places.
In Bar Harbor, ME today where the weather is really, really nice after a "so-so weather" week in Canada.

travelled to michigan from pittsburgh pa (and before that from germantown md). my uncle told me that his tomtom and gps on his phone will suffice. i wanted to use my garmin 765t.. lets just say those two gps he had were either missing signs or were off on the turns. it also sucked that it didnt use TTS. garmin ftw. what a stressful trip.

Last trip was to the Dallas Ft. Worth area. Concerned that Joplin MO was a stopping point for last trip. Not looking forward to travel through there on the next Texas trip.

NYC!

Arlington Heights , Palatine

Last used GPS to go to the Drive-In in Stephens City, VA. Got me there safe and sound.

Wish that you all had a wonderful time. Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.

Traveled to Branson MO to visit friend who retired there. Coming from Texas where we are in a need rain to an area where the lakes and rivers are filled to overflowing was a shock. If only there was a way to send the excess water to the areas that need it (TX, AZ, NM). Great trip and flawless GPS performance.

went to michigan this past weekend. realized I need to download more poi files!! 1 I needed was Panera.

here we come. Oil change and air filter today (thanks to the maintenance minder) and we're off!

I last used my 3790LMT in Barcelona, Spain. I had installed cityXplorer (Barcelona) and I have reported mixed results -- some excellent, some not so good.

See my article at the Garmin Tricks & Tips website.

http://bit.ly/garmin_gps_tricks

Click on 'Recent Additions' and you will find the link at or pretty near the top of the menu.

Gary Hayman

And it was very hot and humid.

The suction cup keeps popping off the windshield!

My Garmin nuvi 1490t stays in my Tahoe all the time, mounted just below the control head for my Kenwood D710 VHF/UHF Ham Radio. Both are on the same direct to battery circuit with a kill switch. I use it driving around the Houston area and most recently on a road trip back to Washington, MO for my 50th HS reunion. It helped maneuver a long detour around a flooded section of I-40 between Little Rock and Memphis. We also stopped overnight in Joplin, at a Hampton Inn on the south edge of the tornado path, about two weeks before the storm.

used mine to go to work. well was not needed but started just for the fun.

Go Cubs

Kick some bear butt!

Fredericksburg, TX, in the beautiful Hill Country. If ever you get a chance to visit Austin, Texas, make sure to drop by the Congress Avenue Bridge in the evening and watch the bats emerge for their nightly bug hunt – it is a sight unlike any other! It was well worth the stopover.

local only

Various job sites. Lot's of $$ on fuel. Grr!

My Son and I did a vacation on PEI about 4 years ago. We did some geocaching and used a handheld, a 650, and his laptop with Delorme on it. There was some funky routing. The GPS had us on a road that was shown in delorme and on the GPS but it was more like a tractor path in a field. We had a number of them. But we trudged on along and had a great time. There were some of what you ran in to also.

Took a trip in the pouring rain yesterday,man did it rain.

Just heading down the road a piece. Almost always have the GPS along ... lost without it.

RT

Boy Scout Eagle project. But it's always on.

My wife and I traveled from Long Beach, NY to Great Barrington, Mass. It was a pretty straightforward ride but as we all know, having the GPS affords the opportunity to go off the beaten path and finding it again without a problem.

Memorial weekend - Kentucky Bourbon Trail with Photo Navigation Favorites for all the distillaries.

Ran to southern MD and back this weekend using a new route through the mountains.

Took a trip to Frederick this morning to pick up some items at Costco. We were tempted to go to the grand opening of a new Wegmans in Frederick, but decided to wait until the hoopla dies down!

Happy Monday

Took myself and the GPS to the Eminence (KY) Ren Faire, had a wonderful time--CoPilot Live was very well behaved other than on a small stretch of very new road (new enough that no maps--from "standalone GPS" maps to CoPilot Live to Google Maps--covers it just yet), and that'll get fixed in time.

to attend a HS graduation and visit cousins. And boy did we need it once we got to San Jacinto valley...hadn't been there in 10 years so the GPS paid for it's self

gps it to Salida, 20 minutes NE of the armpit of CA.

Day trip over the weekend - nice weather, heavy, but moving traffic. No traffic issues, Nuvi and Android Navigation worked fine.

Last place I used mine was for a car show in Carlisle PA. Forgot I had avoid toll roads on...lol. That made it want me to get off the PA turnpike every chance it got.

So we used our new Garmin (with the new maps)to go to and address in Newburyport, MA.
It was taking us to a major bridge that has been under
repair for quite some time. We saw the Detour signs, but for the heck of it I clicked Detour, and it kept trying to get us back to roads that would take us over that bridge.
We ended up following the actual detour signs and got to our destination.
Note:
Three other people that were coming to that address two had their GPS take them right to the house avoiding the detour. One had a Garmin, one had a built in, the other had a Garmin that performed the same as mine. Odd.

Cleveland, OH!

Let's see, Started in Oswego, then Blue Island, Riverdale, Monee, Wilmington, Gibson City, Hudson, Lexington, Lake Bloomington, Ancona, and finally back home.

Busy day.