Officially converted my GPS opinion

[Todd]

I was always of the opinion "why the hell do you need a GPS when you have maps" and if I would search back I could probably find that all over some of our discussions 2+ years ago. I thought guys that that owned GPS units were kinda like guys that would stop and ask for directions....or, guys that ironed their shirts before meeting up for a motorcycle rally
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BUT, as several of you know I had a friend allow me to borrow his Zumo for the almost cross country trip to Custer for the national rally. Ever since I got back and have been taking trips without the GPS something has been missing. I have ridden about all the main roads that you can really see on a map within probably 200-300 miles of here and like to just take a road and see where it goes with out pulling over to figure a route back (usually on one of those main roads again). Also HATE IT when you are getting low on fuel and dont know where the nearest station is.

So, I have been watching Ebay for a couple months and finally won a Zumo at a good price and it arrived Thursday...even got the car mount to use it in the cars (I keep the motorcycle icon for the vehicle on there all the time though ). I updated the maps to 2010 after getting the serial number changed out of the previous owners name through Garmin (nice feature by the way...if it is stolen and someone calls into Garmin to update maps or software they will not do it until verifying that the previous owner sold it...took 5 minutes on the phone with them.....the guy told me that they get calls all the time from people that purchased used units from pawn shops that were stolen....anyway, the lesson is to buy from reputable people even off of ebay)

I am sure I will learn to use it better than I knew on the trip to Custer as Mike, Amy, Ron, and Tammy might tell you (they called her lying Gretta I think...when it was probably stupid Todd that didn't really know how to read the miles/time to destination)

I considered a car unit like many of you have but the convenience of water and shock resistance, the screen that is seen easily in the bright sun, along with the GREAT mp3 player quality sold me on the Zumo.

So I am officially a convert and will now take more of those blind routes in the middle of nowhere with out the worry of reading a map somewhere down the road, finding fuel, or finding food (which is sometimes more often that fuel for me :-/ :-/ :-/ ).

Hello, My name is Todd, and I own a GPS.