omalyn

Thanks for the info. Last night I looked around on Garmin's website and did learn some things. I did notice some units have a remote that I hadn't concidered before. Using nRoute is a little dangerous when you are alone and I decided this might be a better alternative. This morning (Sunday) I noticed that Wal-Mart has the Garmin Streetpilot 13 Auto GPS. I checked out their website and found they have more information than most any others. It runs on 12volt or batteries either one. It also has a DVD of MapSource (which I am familiar with). This sells for $188. I don't think it comes with audible speach or remote. Getting into this I find so many features to concider. I don't want to spend more than $700 and I think I can get a pretty good unit for that.

I have been caching for a couple of years and would like to hear from anyone who knows something about the GPS navigation dashboard units. Recently I learned you can load a pocket query in them just as with the hand held. I would like some suggestions about features and prices. I have gone from Magellan to Garmin and have been leaning toward a Garmin unit although they seem a bit more pricey. Most of the advertising is very sketchy when it comes to features I could use for caching. We are about to go on vacation and I've been thinking this would be a little easier to use than the laptop with nRoute.

We have the best reviewer in Tenneessee...it's MAX CACHER!!

I have found the disc works perfectly on the laptop. I cleared out everything on the tool bar on the desktop I think my fire wall has something to do with this, I turned off the virus protection. I find it interesting also that sometimes it comes up and sometimes not. Usually not and the DR is usless without the disc in the drive.

I'm having trouble opening the map disc. When I click on the desktop icon it asks if I want to open the Direct Route software and gives the version. I click on yes and it does nothing. I've gone to the CD rom and tried to open it by clicking on it that way, it asks the same question but won't open. You can hear the disc turning but it never opens and finally quits turning. What is the deal with this. A couple of times it has started right up but most of the time it won't open at all. I realize this has to be registered to just one GPS but does it only give you one shot at it's use also?

Check your facts. Last year this tale was on the move but it was Liz Claiborne who supported the Satanic church and appeared on the Oprah Show and admitted all on stage but you left out the part where Oprah asked her to leave the stage. I've followed the Oprah show ever since it went national and have never seen anything like this on there. If I can't watch it as it airs my VCR is set to tape it daily. I catch up on the weekends. I'd be willing to bet I haven't missed 5 shows in the 15 years she has been in syndication. When my daughter heard this rumor from a good friend who SWORE that she witnessed this event personally, I went online and checked it out on the Urban Legends websites, there are several, as well as Oprah.com and read the whole story. To quote Oprah "Liz Claiborne has never been on my show". Oprah is just now learning about the uses for gps, on her semi-annual show of "Oprah's Favorite Things" she presented a model that she had just discovered, how much fun and accurate it was. She gave each member of the studio audience their very own, valued at over $700 each. I saw this one myself and even watched it again when it was rerun. Feel free to e-mail her with your story, I'd be willing to bet she will respond! She doesn't support the Satanic church, she definately believes in a higher power. If you have proof that this event took place I'd be real interested to hear about it myself.