lol, I am new to the list. I put a {grin} at the end of my "not so humorous " post. Actually I didn't look close enough to the email to see where it came from No offence meant to anyone :) Especially to you Miss MaryEllen :). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Grabowski" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 15:12 Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: My trip yesterday: Hi, Charles is the name of the developer of the Sendero GPS. Chris On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:02:54 -0400, "NLG" <ngezik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I love it! You have a name for your sendero... You call it Charles? Just >curious do most blind gals have male names for their devices and guys have >female names for their's? > >{grin} :) >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx> >To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:44 >Subject: [gps-talkusers] My trip yesterday: > > >Hi! >I had some business to take care of quite a distance from my home, >yesterday, and had an unusually pleasant driver. He had a gps but he wanted >to know all about the Sendero one and I turned it on because I had made a >route to this place I'd say a year ago. The accuracy was much better in >version 4 and as we traveled, our notes between his gps and mine were >identical. >He asked all sorts of questions about my unit, and when I offered to turned >the speech off he said "leave it on, I want to hear that little man!" >But what was so cool was that I had other stops after my business was taken >care of, and since this was a charter, they charged per mile and I was able >to accurately tell the driver before he finished figuring out the cost the >mileage we had traveled for his log. > >Well needless to say he was extremely impressed and it goes without saying >how impressed I was as well. >So again, well done, Charles! >Mary Ellen Earls > >