New Blog 1: Garmin Motorcycle Mount

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Garmin Motorcycle Mount

I spent Friday night charging the unit, glancing at the directions, loading the software onto a laptop PC and downloading map data into the Quest. The GPS would help us meander through the northeast using little more than tertiary roads, and make it easier for us to find the interstate highways if we needed to make time. Having a diabetic on board, we could also use the receiver to locate a restaurant of our preference when food became an urgent necessity. With any luck it could also help us navigate the insane patchwork of roadways that make up the Boston area. A few weeks later, the Quest would help us find our way through a 3,173 mile, nine day road trip from NYC to Atlanta to St. Louis and back. The good news is, for all of this it worked fairly well. Handheld operation may be a bit disappointing however. Read on...