Road trip checklist
from Garmin Blog
Is a summer vacation in your future? Regardless of if you're driving across the country or doing a stay-cation, it's always important to keep your GPS device up to date, which means updating your maps and software.Our periodic map updates give you the most accurate, most detailed map
data available, and it's quick and easy. Updating your navigator's software is not only easy, but it's also free. Our engineers are continually updating and improving existing products and you can get free software update from the Garmin WebUpdater.
If you don't have a Garmin GPS yet and are trying to decide which one to buy, you should see Outside magazine's 2010 summer buyer's guide. They tested several GPS devices and selected the nüvi 3790T. According to them, "testers were shocked by how eyeblink-fast it updated location on its gorgeous 4.3-inch screen—as if the satellites were just overhead—and how easy it was to enter a destination and then find arrival times, elevation, traffic alerts, and, of course, crystal-clear maps (in standard, 3-D, and topographic 3-D)."
