There is much to be said about road navigation. Most of my far-from-home road trip experience has been to Florida or otherwise in the direction of vaguely south. This means travel through a magical land where roads are designed as the crow flies - much in contrast to New England where the roads are designed as the cow grazes.
I guess it doesn't need to be said that Adam and I are in constant conflict when trying to get around an area neither of us knows, particularly when bouncing around looking at apartments in such an area. Yeah, he almost died. (And he'd likely say the same about me, in all fairness. I'd totally win, though.)
Concluding that court fees for assault charges could be high, I decided to buy a GPS talking navigation system instead. I got a tomtom 910 - a little wedge of genius that attaches to a windshield suction mount. It can use the data connection from one of our Treos via bluetooth to get traffic and weather information, and interacts well with OSX. It's so much easier than fussing with Google maps on the Treos.
It uses text-to-speech and so it announces not only directions and turns but also street names. It labels exits with nice perspicuity - the name at both the separation point and then a bit along the exit ramp. I like it.
It did lead us to one non-existant gas station in New Jersey, but it has otherwise greatly improved the quality of our driving experiences.
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"It's not AdamAdam; it's Tomtom!" :p
So when are you putting this tomtom to use in MA? What's your new job? When should we play?
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