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Date:         Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:49:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: GPS recommendations, handheld & incar?
Comments: To: Chuck Mathis <cvmathis@COMCAST.NET>
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Ah yes, isn't GPS a real kick in the teeth? I've had some 'experiences' of my own, but not on that scale!

Mike B.

> Several years ago when a coworker and I were doing field work in > Wyoming using a DeLorme GPS/laptop/Street Atlas setup to find our way > through the wilds we followed a mapped road across the back of a large > strip mine operation to the point the only way out was through the > front gate or turn around and go back the way we came. On another day > on the same job we found a mapped road that ended at the top of a 70 > foot bluff but the map showed the road continuing several more miles. > > Chuck > '85 Wolfsburg Westy - 'Roland the Road Buffalo'


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