Garmin Street Pilot

[Big Cliff]

I had been wanting to get something similar for a while now but right after Christmas CTC had a unit on sale (not the Garmin one)... so off I went gift cards in hand to get one of the CTC ones. Well, it seems a lot of other people had the same idea and by the time I got there they were all gone and wouldn't be available for a few weeks.

 

I had a few other things to get and happened to stop in at Radio Shack (the source, or what ever they call it these days) and they had the Garmin Street Pilot on special for $429.00. (regular $600.00+) and the salesman was really on the ball and knew the product (that always impresses me) so I bought it. I have to tell you, I am VERY impressed with this thing. It is small but the screen has excellent clarity and the voice prompts are easy to hear and understand.

 

I won't try to tell you all the features of it here but when we were in the middle of nowhere and I noticed we were getting low on gas, Sue just touched "where to?" then "fuel" (it's all touch screen) and within seconds it gave us a list of nearby gas stations, their names, addresses, direction, and distance. Sue selected one and it guided us right to the address.

 

Sue wanted to go to a Red Lobster for dinner one night, she just followed the on screen prompts, typed in Red Lobster, and it listed several starting with the closest one then guided us right into the parking lot.

 

I can't speak about any of the other units out there, I have heard some not so good reports and I have heard of a lot more expensive units but if you are going to do any traveling I'd recomend this one any time.

[motv8tr]

But can it take you to the best fishin' hole???

 

Glad you like the unit Cliff, good things to have when travelling.

 

Maureen

[Big Cliff]

Morning Moe! Actually as long as there is a street address, it will take you there! You can even ask it to take you by the shortest or fastest route, avoide gravel roads, toll roads, or highways..... you do have to be careful what you ask for though, at one point I asked it for the shortest route and it was going to take me there except a portion of the road was unmaintained (showed up on a map and everything). I just told it to avoide gravel roads and it recalculated for me.

[crappiesteve]

Cliff,they are a great little unit,had the chance to try one out.Like you said put the address in and follow the instuctions.that simple.enjoy your new toy.

 

Steve

[Beans]

Maureen's mom could use one of those !!!

 

I swear she could get lost in a phone booth sometimes

 

But I loves her

[Greencoachdog]

Maureen's mom could use one of those !!!

 

I swear she could get lost in a phone booth sometimes

 

But I loves her

 

 

They need to make one you can wear on your wrist, so the wimmins can find their cars in the Wal-Mart parking lot after shopping for an hour or two.

[aplumma]

I have been using the Tom Tom unit for about 2 years and think the world of it. I type in the customers address and off we go to job with the street names and the directions clearly marked and read out loud as you go.

 

Art

[pigeonfisher]

I got a Garmin Nuvi. All I can say abuot it is WOW. You can look up a place, it will pull up the phone number and address then allow you to make the call through the blue tooth enabled phone.

 

it is a great unit.