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kinzelHi there, traveler ...
have you got the blues?
You say that roads you used ten years ago now go someplace else?
You say that roads you never heard of go where you want to go?
You say that roads that used to be friendly local scenic byways
with speed limits on the slow side of 40 now sport dazzling multi-span three-high bridge interconnections
with 8 lane roads that didn't exist in 1997, all moving at 78 miles an hour wall-to-wall?
is that what's troubling you, Bubby?
In other words, while we were never lost, we were discommoded several times by the rapid change in roads; we came across places where the road we needed to be on was now... continued on the other side of a superhighway, with no bridge to be found... and where the cross street now feeds a barrier littered road with one way signs and a mile-long Robin Hood's barn round-trip to go 40 feet.
So, talk to me of GPS, and of features. I note we have no bluetooth phone, so we prolly don't need that, eh? And who expects the map to sing? Not the most urgent feature for us, that ...
Thanks!
have you got the blues?
You say that roads you used ten years ago now go someplace else?
You say that roads you never heard of go where you want to go?
You say that roads that used to be friendly local scenic byways
with speed limits on the slow side of 40 now sport dazzling multi-span three-high bridge interconnections
with 8 lane roads that didn't exist in 1997, all moving at 78 miles an hour wall-to-wall?
is that what's troubling you, Bubby?
In other words, while we were never lost, we were discommoded several times by the rapid change in roads; we came across places where the road we needed to be on was now... continued on the other side of a superhighway, with no bridge to be found... and where the cross street now feeds a barrier littered road with one way signs and a mile-long Robin Hood's barn round-trip to go 40 feet.
So, talk to me of GPS, and of features. I note we have no bluetooth phone, so we prolly don't need that, eh? And who expects the map to sing? Not the most urgent feature for us, that ...
Thanks!
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2008-07-22 18:39 (UTC)We got this one because we're planning foreign travel, and it has modules for many of the cities we're about to visit, and also has walking directions as well as driving.
I agree both with its ease of use and somewhat confusing "add a stop" subroutine.
I do note that it has the directions and recommendations for several restaurants that are no longer there... and it doesn't have the newest ones. I'm told it is update-able, but I haven't managed to do it yet.
My husband also has the Tom Tom (because he decided the concept was great, but he wasn't going to take it from me in our new home when he had to go on multiple business trips) It's less intuitive, but it has some features that are cool... he says it seems more like it would appeal to an engineer or a programer: they think that way. It's kindof amusing to put both in the same car and play dueling GPS. Nuvi has taken me on strange detours on occasion when it detected backed up traffic on 95 in Miami. I got to tour Little Havana on the way to an audition!.... But it most often gets us where we're going faster while Tom Tom goes the shortest, but perhaps back street and slower due to lights, direction.
Using Nuvi, I have been able to go to addresses in cities I've never been to, find restaurants a bunch of friends all decided to meet up at, while there, and to get to auditions in downtown SoBe and Miami, without knowing the way. It's a comforting tool to have