Garmin

If you've never had a Garmin and you travel outside of your normal realm even occasionally, you should consider one. What is a Garmin? It's a little digital map that had the coolest information and all the need-to-know stuff right there.

You type in an address and it leads you step by step, turn by turn, to the front door. You don't know the address, type in the name of the place...just as good. You want something to eat but you don't know your nearby options, just do a search for restaurants. You want to go shopping but you are in an unfamiliar area, just searching for shopping. You want to find a mall look for shopping center. You want to make a phone call to a local place but you don't know the number, just look it up. I have a Garmin Nuvi 360 with Bluetooth so it connects to my phone. I can just click on dial and talk right to the Garmin. It's great!

I don't know where we would have been without Garmin this weekend. We used it so many times. Well, as a matter of fact we used it for every single place we wanted to go. We wanted to find a Chili's, but not just any Chili's we wanted one near our hotel. It found one within 4 miles for us. Another time we wanted a Quizno's it took us to the closest one to our current route. We hit traffic one time and just clicked on Detour and it took us a different way.

We are totally unfamiliar with St. Louis and would have been staring at maps for hours. We would have eaten at restaurants that we didn't have coupons or gift cards for and it would have cost us more. We would have been driving around in circles and spent more in gas. The Garmin was one of the greatest things that happened for a traveling crew.

We're going to CA in a few months and believe me, it will be one of the first things to get packed.