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

Minnesota has the best paved trails. My wife and I rode them for a week, about 230 miles total. With a Garmin in the car and one on the bike there is no way we can get lost, giving us freedom to explore in any direction.

Made a trek to Costco over the weekend. The google navigation app correctly warned me (in a timely manner) would serious traffic delays on the most direct route. Saved me 30 minutes each way.

A visit to the wineries in Lodi area.

Had a great camping trip at Elkmont campground in the GSMNP and several trips from Elkmont to Gatlinburg.

Local driving - but my Red light POIs are working again!!!

Leisurely drive around Prince Edward County (Ontario). Checked out a couple antique shops, picked up some mushrooms in Wellington, cheese from the Black River Cheese Factory and lunch and ale at the Duke of Marysburgh Pub. No wine stops this time.

Took the new Nuvi 3790LMT for an afternoon out to Montauk Point on the east end of Long Island. If anyone makes it out that way, hit The Lobster Roll (aka Lunch)just before you get into town, the fish and chips is phenomenal!

Just returned from a 10-day vacation in Fort Myers. I didn't bring my own GPSr, since my in-laws' car has a built-in GPSr. The maps were relatively up-to-date, although several POIs appear to have "closed shop" or relocated.

Went to Nashville for a pre-birthday trip.

Used the Garmin to get to the hotel, find parking in downtown Nashville, and find a few other favorite places in the area.

Also, on a side note the Garmin runs faster with the latest map update. Last years maps were bogging my gps down and making me want to throw it into the middle of traffic.

anyone know about Garmin redlight camera file, loaded on 3790, and how you update it..?

at an unfamiliar part of town.

My last trip was to Dover Delaware. GPS worked great.

Just local driving. But the area approved many new Speed Cameras and they seem to be popping up all over the place. I need to figure out how to get the GPS coordinates on my Nuvi 765T so I can upload them to the redlight camera area.

If you press on the vehicle icon when at the location, does it give you the coordinates?

...which is the highest paved road in North America. My GPSr didn't have a preloaded POI for this point, however.

I Had Lots of fun this weekend, how about you..?

Go Nebraska

Just got back from 15 day 3975 mile driving trip from Flor-i-duh with stops in NC, PA, NH, ME, Quebec, NY, VA.
Attended my S.O.'s daughters wedding up in Maine, celebrated my youngest sons 40th B'day in NH (where I found out I was going to be a Grampa for the 14th time), and was there in NH while my youngest daughter underwent major surgery (all went well).
Found a number of rest areas/Turnouts not previously in data base mostly on State Roads in Maine. will be in next update of "Rest Areas Combined" POI file.
Averaged 28.45 mpg on the whole trip in my 2008 Taurus.
Min price for gas was $3.319 in Winchester, VA and the highest was 3.839 in Nashua, NH.
Traffic Alert/Auto detour worked twice on the trip. One with great success near Scranton, PA and the 2nd with marginal success as it put me on US 301, off I-95, with many, many other drivers who had the same idea. Don't know whether it was a good move or not but it was different scenery anyway !
Good trip all in all !

Just an overnight trip to play with the new JCV file and attend the dedication of an infant at a friend's church in Pawnee. The little car averaged 44mpg going and 41mpg returning home. We traveled mostly back roads on Saturday and some four lane returning.
2010 Scion XD.
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Very excited for my upcoming trip to Washington State and Oregon. First time there for me.

I can't imagine going anywhere new without a GPS now.

There is a major surface street in my town that leads to I-75. The surface street has been under construction, and this weekend they closed it completely till September.

I"m on this street, and need to get to the highway but it is a bad industrial end of town and I have no idea of how to get to a different entrance ramp.

So, I pop on the Nuvi and Viola! I take a right turn and 2 miles later there is an On-Ramp at the end of that road.
Very cool. I would have never thought about going down that street to get to the highway.
+1 Nuvi.

Used it today to locate a Logans Roadhouse restaurant and to go to my first Hhgregg store.Happy with visit to both places.

Found a new doctor's office, in spite of Jill. When I got to the area, she told me to turn left onto the street, but there was no street there -- there was a street on the other side of the ditch, but it had a guard rail between me and it. I went past the area to find a street, and Jill told me to make a U-Turn immediately. Instead of turning around, I backed up one screen and pressed the "detour" icon.

Jill recalculated, and sent me about 1/2 mile ahead to where the real street was. I got to th appointment on time....

From the airport to my daughter's house. Not really. I am still at home. I just wanted to simulate the route to look at the junction views.

By coincidence we are going tonight, buy one get one free coupon.

IMO the steaks are better than at Outback

Found some great places to eat and shop

We used the coupon too.Had a nice steak .

Work, work, work. No play time lately!

That's better than unemployment, unemployment,unemployment.

My wife and I took a three day trip into the mountains of North Carolina to cool off from the heat in Mooresville. We set our sights on Highlands and a very nice B&B called the 4 1/2 street B&B. The weather was great and we visited several waterfalls around the area. We stopped in Hendersonville on the way home and purchased some locally grown apples.

Don't know what I would do without it. I use it daily in my work travels.

Just got back again from Louisiana. This time for my sister-in-law's funeral. My 3790LMT worked great. Custom POI work well on the Fast Food. Two problem that I had was that my arrival time had changed, don't know why. But I think it had to do with the recently found. Clear that file and work great. The other was that my 3D terrain wasn't working. It would not zoom out. Press the minus sign and it came back. Liked all the JV helped out a lot.

I typically just install the latest version of the file and it just overwrites the pervious data in the GPS. (I make sure I change the name of the file to be the same as I used the last time - I typically just name it "Redlight Cameras")

That works for me.

Good Question. I dunno. I'll check.

THANKS!

Using my nuvi 760 and the latest map version. Did a great job getting me there.

from Omaha to Kansas City, Kansas. Had to do the detours on south I-29 because of the flooded highway. The mileage on the gps indicated I was getting nowhere during the detour course. It did quide me right to my final destination.

the big trip cross country to PA and surrounding area for the Fall colors starts on 1 Sep for us! Been updating all the necessary POIs and rechecking the route. Can hardly wait

Last trip taking son back to college about 40 minutes away.

Got a big trip planned for Aug.31 to Indiana and Kentucky.

I spent a great day in Atlanta!

Junction View helped with previewing some of the more complex junctions we encountered: I-85/I-285 Interchange; the I-85/I-75/Langford Parkway Interchange; and the I-85/GA 400 (Toll) Interchange. Being able to visualize these junctions before the trip made actually navigating them easy.

Lane Assist was invaluable in navigating the major highways and the city streets in and around Atlanta. Almost every intersection in downtown Atlanta where our route required us to turn was covered by LA.

The Offbeat Tourist Attraction POI file provided a lot of entertainment. We encountered 10 different sites over the course of the day.

We met family for lunch. Some are vegetarians. Green Sprout Restaurant (-84.36959,33.79639) is the place to go in Atlanta for vegans or a mixture of carnivores and vegetarians. The non-meat "pork" and "beef" dishes are great if you want that "meaty" meal. However, even the straight vegetable dishes are so full of flavor and texture, and are so colorful and well presented, that you won't miss the meat.

Had son's birthday party today, then took a trip to Costco to restock on our "day-to-day" food.

Happy Birthday

I went to the Catawba (OH) peninsula this weekend, which has a road going all around the perimeter of the finger-shaped peninsula. Every now and then, there are cross streets (residential, and well hidden from the main road). I was looking for a short-cut to the only store within 10 miles and put it in the GPS, which promptly showed a nearby cross-over street.

However, when I went down there, I found there was a guard-rail installed across the street making that road unsuitable for anyone unless you lived there.

I wish I could update that little tidbit onto my nuvi.

Getting a rental car. Taking my Garmin in the bag, for directions!!!

Take a camera too, so you can document any dings on it when you get it, then they can't ding you for them on return.

Another flawless trip to Cleveland. Interestingly, GPS suggested a different route this time than what it normally chooses and I checked and there was no traffic on the route it normally takes. Interesting.

Trying to get out of Coors Field.

7-6 Rockies.

Checking out the latest map update

Used my Android phone to navigate while traveling earlier this week and to and from the airport. Great performance and helped me avoid a delay getting to the airport due to traffic - via a route I would never have taken.