The NavTeq based "portable maps" aka GPS.  Can be augmented with a TOPO (tm)
map set that will allow one to switch between the two and learn of the
terrain rather than the often misleading NavTeq "turn left at the gator hide
nailed to a stump"   Good article in the NYTimes on this recently.

Dragons beyond...

Pensioner.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The following story just says their "van" got stuck in the mud, and doesn't
> identify the make or model:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110509/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_canadian_couple
>
> Could have been a syncro?  Here's to hope of finding the husband alive
> soonest, and a speedy recovery to the rescued wife.
> Anthony'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>