This week I purchased a Garmin GPS - and can I just say that it will probably be the best purchase I make while living in northern Virginia? I purchased it through Amazon, and it was delivered yesterday - and this evening I used it for the first time, when I headed to a small italian restaurant in Arlington, Il Radicchio, to meet a cousin and her husband's family for dinner. The place was only about 7 miles from my house - but as it so happened, today was 'Clarendon Day' so Clarendon was partially closed for the ocassion - and this whole GPS 'recalculating' thing is just the best.
My new GPS makes me think that I might actually be able to get around up here, and that's a good thing.
I love mine! Wouldn't want to be without it now. They are really amazing - even just to get the estimate of arrival time is cool. Enjoy!
Posted by: Joan | 24 September 2011 at 09:30 PM
Maybe you can even "recalculate" to avoid I-95 on your way back to home #1. Just a thought....
Posted by: cindi | 24 September 2011 at 11:41 PM
Our son bought us one one Christmas. We were heading out to LA and I don't know how we would have found the places we visited without it. It is useful about 95% of the time but on occasion can be wrong. It pays to have a rough idea of where you are going. It doesn't know about gated areas!
Posted by: Lancashire rose | 25 September 2011 at 07:39 AM
Thanks Joan. I think it's invaluable up here... I was at dinner with folks last night who've lived in Arlington for 40 years, and they said that they still need to use theirs on occasion, and that a few weeks ago, they got lost 10 minutes from their home!
Cindi, unfortunately the GPS is not a miracle worker... I'm stuck with I-95 there, unless I want it to take twice as long to get home!
Lancashire Rose - yesterday it didn't know that a road was closed for a special celebration day - but thankfully it 'recalculated' for me. Whew. I would've been lost otherwise!
Posted by: Pam | 25 September 2011 at 08:45 AM
I laugh everytime our Garmin is 'recalculating'....such an attitude! We had it set for an Aussie guy, but my husband couldn't understand his accent. Once I set it to speak German....which we sort of know...at least left, right, straight ahead, etc. Once we got home, we put it away. One of the kids borrowed it, and was half way to Richmond...still trying to get it back to English. hahaha
Posted by: Janet, The Queen of Seaford | 25 September 2011 at 03:41 PM