Re: Road Map or GPS | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,005 Likes: 44 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,005 Likes: 44 | Actually, I use three articles when traveling these days. Just got a new GPS before my Florida trip at the beginning of this month, a Magellan that I can program in the size, height and weight of my travel trailer, seemed to work real well. Also print out a map quest route to check it against, and then the wife likes to sit in the passenger seat with an atlas in her lap the whole trip. Between the three, we seem to get most any place just fine. Also, the GPS is nice when you're someplace you don't know to punch in POIs and find places like particular restaurants, grocery stores or department stores.
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| | | Re: Road Map or GPS | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. | Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 | Maps, atlas, and the print out of the google map! We also have a Steve-Steve in the VAN...and even with all that we sometimes get an adVANture on our trip!
Part of the fun of VANNING and going to different eVANts is the journey itself. We have seen many little things in this country that have made us smile, and found little out of the way places to enjoy. With a GPS, you miss a lot of that...
...plus, GPS doesn't tell you where the rest areas are!
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| | | Re: Road Map or GPS | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 522 addict | addict Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 522 | My Garmin tells me where rest areas are. | | | Re: Road Map or GPS | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 9,854 Likes: 8 Festerus Vannimus | Festerus Vannimus Joined: May 2007 Posts: 9,854 Likes: 8 |
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| | | Re: Road Map or GPS | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 addict | addict Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 490 | I prefer my GPS, since it brings me back on the route when I make an error and go the wrong way. And travelling the US without (or as recentley in the UK with driving on the left side) would be much difficult using a map.
But I still can read a map and normally figure out, where I'm (still oldschool). | | | Re: Road Map or GPS | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,850 Likes: 231 carpal tunnel | carpal tunnel Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,850 Likes: 231 | We carry all three on board. Maps, GPS and phone app. But we use the map most of the time. We're "shunpikers" and only run the interstates and the big roads when we're forced to or we're pressed for time. Now that we're retireded we have more time and try to travel during the week when we can. The maps are great and help us avoid the drone and the nothingness of the interstate. The small towns we pass thru on the state roads are sometimes pictures from the past, the little "mom-n-pop" diners serving home cooked, spotting a old van in someones backyard, having people at a country store say, "I had a van back in the day". And it's just safer and more fun to loafer along. You can't really program a GPS to find "FUN". | | |
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