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Subject:Re: GPS
From:Tom Sinclair
Date:Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:17:48 -0700

I was planning on getting something like this for my
laptop.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5215332764&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Tom

--- Mark C <obeechi@RUNBOX.COM> wrote:

> Yeah, but where do you put your laptop when driving?
> Is it open on the front seat...?
>
> ----- Start Original Message -----
> From: Larry Himli <lhimli@MSN.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: GPS
>
> > Just wanted to promote my new GPS.  On my most
> recent adventure I tried to
> > navigate with my handheld  GPS unit and this was
> absolutely inadequate while
> > driving.  I ended up buying a Garmin USB GPS-18.
> It comes with up-to-date
> > software and a small receiver that has a magnetic
> or suction base.  I put it
> > in the Westy this past weekend and travelled about
> 300 miles.  It hooks to
> > my laptop and I was totally amazed at what I got.
> Besides full screen
> > mapping of my route it has audio prompts.  If you
> change course the software
> > recognizes it and modifies your route to your
> destination.  All of this for
> > about $100.00 (software alone goes for more than
> that on the Garmin site).
> > I bought it at buydig.com.  I have no connections
> to them and only wanted to
> > share something that works great in the Westy.
> > Larry
> >
>
> ----- End Original Message -----
>

http://www.TomSinclair.com

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