On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Bill Shawley <easywind1975@hotmail.com>wrote:

> It pains me to give in to modern technology being of the type that prides
> themselves in their god given navigational skills, BUT I think I'm gonna get
> a GPS.  I don't know much about them and don't wanna get too engrossed in
> the ins and outs.  My wife loves the idea and I think the unit will reside
> in her car most of the time but I guess it would be nice for trips.
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> I'm not looking to spend much, we don't really go off road or into the
> wild, just something to keep my form depending on my mapquest printouts.
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> Can anyone recommend any good, inexepensive units?
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  Hey, I understand the 'best' deal is to get an I-phone or one of it's
clones.  Then you can be totally connected with only one device.  You can
get your email, go online, and find driving directions, right from your
front seat...hopefully not while you are supposed to be driving,  but...

  I was just visited, in the "Outback of California" by a modern guy, a
surgeon who brought his mobile device along..He used it to find his way from
PDX to So Cal... to book his rental house..to find resturants on the trip
and to consult with his patients while he was riding his bicycle...

  I guess once you figgured out how to run one, you wouln't need a GPS,
since they have an "app" to interface with all the map and driving direction
servers.  That 3G signal...it seems a lot more available than WiFi...We were
about ten miles from town in the desert and a guy near us was online all the
time on his 3G signal...

  Man, it's hard to keep current on all the new electronics....
  Don Hanson

  I have a couple of Garmin units..one for my bicycle and one for my
dirtbike...hand helds but very dependable and good customer service from
Garmin..

Wanee festival is only weeks away.

Ryan

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