nazcat

A garmin Dakota 10 Very happy!! My husband got a tee shirt with the Pillsbury dough boy on it and I said i am taking that , I have been watching a PBDB travel bug and dying to get it when it comes my way, so its my goal in life. Other then that , just an itch now to get out again to cache!!

So does the average geocacher use there car gps to get to the area and then use the handheld to pinpoint the exact location, maybe I have got myslef into a habit of using the car one that I have no idea how to use the handheld. Does that sound correct. I have only been doing this since March and really love it, but found printing them off and organizing them to be time consumming. What is the normal process that you all use? We like to travel all over and do caching while we are there. PS i would need canada maps. looking on that site but it is going slow, or I am, too much turkey maybe LOL. Thanks for all your help !!

Thanks,wow thats really sad seeing the cost, I was expecting it to be like my garmin nuvi. I have used it for 9 months to do geocaching with no problem, but like the idea of paperless caching.Hmmm now i wonder whether to return it, I do know how to get around the PC, wonder if I can do the free maps thing, i guess if it doesn't work and can set it to factory settings and return it.

So My husband bought me a Garmin Dakota 10 for christmas and was so excited to finally ditch the car gps for a handheld. Turned it on and hit maps, after a bit the satelite found me but no streets are visible just surronding highways. It has a basemap but does that mean only highways. I zoomed in and still nothing just yellow land. I decided to try the "where to" feature and put in the next town and it drew a straight line from a-b no road directions. Is this what it comes with and if so how do you figure out how to get to the geocaches if they are 30 mins or so away. I am wondering if my gps maps are screwy, there has been random lines appear sometimes crisscrossing all over . I will be ultra disappointed if a 300 dollar gps comes with nothing. I did look to see if there was any updates and none. someone have any suggestions thanks!!