GPS Recommendations?

[APDrone]

Travel in the spirit of Lewis and Clark,Juan Bautista de Anza,John and Sebastian Cabot,Marco Polo ,Coronado and Cortes!
Turn them off or throw them away! Away I say!!
And learn to live life as it was meant to be lived!

 

The great adventurers didn't have to contend with one-way streets, no u-turns, toll-booths, tail-gaters, highway patrols, and road construction.

Get rid of those, then the toys can go away.

Go back to admiring your salsa dancer.. 

[bj229r]

Dont need or want em.
Never in my life have I had a problem finding a decent place to eat whenever I wanted one without seeking the assistance of a sissy box.
No need for one now.
Drive past a place. If it looks interesting. Stop and eat there. I dont see the great difficulty.

Besides. They ruin the exploration and adventure factor.
Most of the best places and most fun I've ever had was in the things I unexpectedly found or never planned for.
You people have entirely too much structure in your lives.
You've become as pre programed as the gadgets your enslaved and addicted to.
Worse yet is your doing it to your kids as well. Where every spare moment is planned out almost to the last detail.

Travel in the spirit of Lewis and Clark,Juan Bautista de Anza,John and Sebastian Cabot,Marco Polo ,Coronado and Cortes!
Turn them off or throw them away! Away I say!!
And learn to live life as it was meant to be lived!

 

DAMNIT WHEN I'M A 100 MILES FROM HOME AND I WANT A THICKBURGER I WANT ONE NOW!

[DREDIOCK]

The great adventurers didn't have to contend with one-way streets, no u-turns, toll-booths, tail-gaters, highway patrols, and road construction.

Get rid of those, then the toys can go away.

Go back to admiring your salsa dancer.. 

Your right. Just the occasional hostile Indian tribe, Alligators, Poisonous snakes and cannibals.Not to mention the possiblity of being sacrificed to some peoples "Sun God"  Plus,No roads, period. Hell sometimes there wasnt even a toe path to follow.
And you whine about your trivial 1 way streets and tail gaters.
 

[Skuzzy]

We enjoy our Garmin Nuvi 750.  Takes the pressure out of remembering to take that critical exit off the freeway or how to get to the hotel in a town we have never been to before.

It does not stop the adventure at all.  Quite the opposite as you can deviate from the course as many times as you like and the unit will always find a path back to it.  We often go, "What's over there?" and not even be concerned about getting lost.

It does not make things more structured.  It makes things more fun by taking the pressure off of as you know longer have to wonder, "where the frak am I?".

[BlauK]

I like my Garmin Nuvi as well. 

Ii is great in car, but I am currently also considering a Garmin Colorado hand held for for hiking/biking etc. The more accurate terrain maps are just pretty expensive

[bj229r]

I like my Garmin Nuvi as well. 

Ii is great in car, but I am currently also considering a Garmin Colorado hand held for for hiking/biking etc. The more accurate terrain maps are just pretty expensive

I'm thinking of getting this product for VA...we do a LOT of hiking, and you can print them off your laptop gridded at 1:24000, which pretty much works
http://maptech.mytopo.com/land/terrainnavigator/index.cfm?infopg=buy....if ya dont wanna go the gps route, ya can use these:http://www.maptools.com/products/MilScale.html

The UTM thing kinda confronts me, but the folks I talk to in search/rescue, etc say that everyone uses it, save pilots and the military

[Terror]

I have the Zumo 550  for use on my motorcycle.  It rocks.  XM Radio, weather, and traffic ready, Bluetooth, mp3 capable, left hand and glove friendly, water proof, vibration resistant, etc etc etc.  But it does have a hefty $$$ tag on it.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=135&pID=414

Terror

[sluggish]

Dont need or want em.


Travel in the spirit of Lewis and Clark,Juan Bautista de Anza,John and Sebastian Cabot,Marco Polo ,Coronado and Cortes!
Turn them off or throw them away! Away I say!!
And learn to live life as it was meant to be lived!

 

I could be wrong (correct me if I am) but I believe Louis and Clark used the most modern, up to date navigation devices available to the at the time of their exploration.  I have no way of proving this, but I bet if they had had GPS available at the time they would have used it.