We’ve been asked to post as much as we are willing to do about our new GPS for the benefit of those in the market for a new one. So here’s today’s trip.
We live in a suburb on the west wide of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today we had several errands to run which included a stop at our favorite Denny’s which is far from home but on the way to the outlet mall which was one of our destinations for today. So, after making the close to home stops, Dave entered Denny’s as a name search. But this GPS only finds points of interest that are fairly close to where you are at the moment and we weren’t close enough for it to find it. Since we knew it was near the intersection of I-94 and Hwy 101, we put those as the cross streets in the intersection search and it found that.
Normally, from where we were at the time, we would have backtracked to the freeway and taken a couple of them to Denny’s. But, our GPS took us on a pleasant drive through the country on two lane roads and past a KOA we’ve stayed at many times so we arrived unstressed by the drive. Nice!
When we were ready to leave Denny’s we wanted to enter the outlet mall as our next destination but we weren’t sure of the name of the mall. No problem. There is a POI section for shopping so I chose it then selected shopping mall as our category. And it found the one we wanted in a town about 6 1/2 miles on down the road.
We are enjoying using this GPS in territory that is familiar to us because it is helping us learn how to use it when I get into unfamiliar territory. And Dave likes it so well he is talking about buying one for him to use in the car when I take this one with me in my RV.
I don’t know how we can recommend it any higher than that.
For those of you who might be just tuning in it is a Garmin dēzl 560LMT and, if you search this blog for that term, you will find my first review of it with details of using it in following blogs.
Happy travels.
TTYL,
Linda
Once you have a GPS it’s hard to even travel without one. I don’t just use mine anymore just to get from Point A to Point B but to always know what the speed limit is and what I’m going. You get to the point of depending on it.
Can’t even imagine what life was like before we had a GPS. How did we ever find any place?
Thanks for the update on the GPS. Paul said one bad thing about a GPS is that he no longer pays attention to his surroundings. He says this is a bad thing for him!