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Old 05-01-2008, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by disneysteve View Post
I use a Rand McNally road atlas. I got it free at work.

For planned trips where I need more detail, I use Mapquest.

When we are traveling out of town on vacation, I go to AAA and get free maps from them.

I've yet to see any point in having a GPS in our cars.
While I have no intention of buying one, I did get to go on a trip where one was loaned (BILs new toy) and yes it was cool, and yes we missed the turn and yes it recalculated..I might consider it in the future because my husband was so ... un-cranky about missing the turn due to the cool toy recalculating . Very unusual for my (wonderful, but) easily annoyed husband.

Though personally I do not think it saved us any time, the reroute was thru a school with r5mph speed limits and road bumps, turning around would have left us on the big road.
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