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WHERE IS THE MUSTANG?!

Published September 24, 2009 by NATALIE WHITE

Hello Travellers! This trip I am about to tell about happened sort of by chance. I had decided to purchase my dream car, a Mustang! Oh I was so excited! I found a GREAT deal on a red Mustang, and I couldnt pass it up. So we saddled up late … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 3861

Place: Yarmouth

Tags: mustang, story

LONGGGG DAY ICE FISHING

Published August 12, 2009 by VONN BRICKER

Longggg day ice fishing. My boys and I head north from Edmonton to Peanut Lake about an hour north. We always take two vehicles just in case one of them gets stuck on the ice. Fishing was awesome. We were the only people on the … (read more)

Category: FISHING Views: 4096

Place: Alberta

Tags: ice fishing, story

A SEARCH AND RESCUE STORY

Published May 19, 2008 by MICHAEL COYLE

I'm a volunteer with Coquitlam Search and Rescue. As you might expect, SAR volunteers are avid users of GPS and all related mapping technologies and so we're quite used to them by now. I'd like to relate one story of how accurate and useful a GPS is to us. The … (read more)

Category: EMS Views: 2117

Website: www.coquitlam-sar.bc.ca

Place: Coquitlam

Tags: search, rescue, story

DR. STRANGELOVE, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND TRUST MY STREETPILOT III !!

Published February 11, 2008 by BRAD T.

August, 2001 (a little dated, yes, but still relevant!) We are just back from a brief four day holiday in the Los Angeles/Southern California area during which we used the StreetPilot III as our sole means of navigation. I repeat, as our sole means of navigation!! Hey, you need … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 2830

Website: www.gpscity.com

Place: los angeles

Tags: dr. strangelove, story, trip

83 YEAR OLD MOM AND A GPS

Published March 28, 2007 by RON

I just purchased a Garmin StreetPilot C330 for my 83 year-old mother and told her to practice turning it on and selecting a destination. She called me that night and said her GPS wasn't working. I asked what happened. She explained that she had programmed in a local … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 1958

Tags: mom, story

WHEN NORTH IS REALLY SOUTH!

Published March 14, 2007 by MARK

Years ago I was in Yellowstone National Park. I own a business making back country ski sleds and other winter gear, it was February. I had a brand new Magellan gps, their first. Very slow and not real accurate. The defense department still had their … (read more)

Category: BACKCOUNTRY Views: 2635

Place: yellowstone

Tags: story

THE LITTLE GARMIN GPS 128 VS 6 FOOT WAVES

Published December 13, 2006 by KEN

To quote Snoopy “it was a dark and stormy night”! The sailboat race had begun in light and shifty winds and after the sun had set the winds began to build as a storm blew in. The initial marks were somewhat easy to spot as the Garmin GPS pointed us … (read more)

Category: MARINE Views: 2281

Place: thames river

Tags: story, sailboat race

A TRIP OF A LIFE TIME

Published November 30, 2006 by EDMUND

I have many GPS adventures, all special in some way. I have an old e-Map mounted on the handlebars of my Harley and I don’t go anywhere without the map programmed and navigating (well, almost nowhere). I have blindly selected routes from MapSource for week-long rides with as many … (read more)

Category: MOTORCYCLE Views: 3814

Tags: trip, story, harley

A RAM MOUNT, GARMIN STREETPILOT, 2003 HONDA VTX1300 AND NO GAS!

Published October 12, 2006 by JACK

I had only been in California for a couple of years and for sure not familiar with the state. I had a Garmin Street Pilot with Ram Mounts on my 2003 Honda VTX1300. One afternoon out enjoying the ride and the wind not thinking about where I was … (read more)

Category: MOTORCYCLE Views: 18195

Place: california

Tags: honda, story, motorcycle mount, ram mount

MY WIFE IS A TERRIBLE NAVIGATOR

Published September 10, 2006 by MAURICE

All I can say is that my wife is a terrible navigator, but when we had a car with GPS while touring Scotland last year our life and holiday became bliss. There was nothing easier to use, plus we saw many castles and other attractions which we would have … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 1908

Tags: wife, story

3 DAYS LOST WITH A BROKEN LEG AND A GPS!

Published July 5, 2006 by ROBERT

While I was vacationing in Montana in 2002 I was looking for an out of the way camping spot. It was cold and snow on the ground and I was about 40 miles SE of Bozeman out on State Rd. 89 and FM 540. It was getting late in … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 3369

Place: montana

Tags: broken leg, story

LOST CAMERA? NOT WHEN YOU HAVE A GPS

Published June 20, 2006 by MILES

About a year ago I was Geocaching on Nose Hill Park. I had my Garmin GPSMap 60C in my hand and my new digital camera clipped to my belt loop. As I climbed up the hill I was playing with the GPSr functions and decided to turn the track … (read more)

Category: GEOCACHING Views: 4089

Place: calgary

Tags: camera, story

SIGNAL LOSS FROM WINDSHIELD FILM

Published June 11, 2006 by HAMRHEAD

I do not have any real good story but a comment which might be of interest. I have my GPS mounted in the dash of my vehicle and have had a couple different vehicle uses. The only problem I have ever had with my GPS signal is … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 1952

Tags: signal loss, story

GETTING DIRECTIONS FROM A MONKEY

Published June 3, 2006 by BENNIE

I have had a GPS navigation unit for several years, and have come to depend on it to take me where I want to go. Once in Gainesville Florida, my Brother in Law, Sister in Law and my Wife and I wanted to go to a particular Restaurant … (read more)

Category: AUTOMOTIVE Views: 3360

Place: gainesville

Tags: monkey, story

MODERATE WEATHER CONDITIONS GONE BAD

Published March 27, 2006 by ALAN

In 1998 we purchased a 36 ft. sailboat in San Diego with the intention of keeping it in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico, about 1400 miles worth of sailing distance around the Baja Peninsula and across the Sea of cortez. We left San Diego on March 4, in moderate … (read more)

Category: MARINE Views: 2088

Place: baja coast

Tags: story

GEOCACHING IN THE SNOW

Published March 18, 2006 by GREG

While on my way to Timmins, Ontario I thought I would stop in Geraldton for a little stretch break/geocaching. I had checked out some possible caches a few days before and come up with this one, Broken Buffalo Cache. Now you must remember geocaching in the winter … (read more)

Category: GEOCACHING Views: 5657

Place: geraldton

Tags: story

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