[gps-talkusers] Re: telling folks where to go:
- From: "Gerry Leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 05:08:27 -0600
Hello everyone,
I started with GPS talk a few years ago. I recently got a trekker because
it was less expensive then the Braille note system. Since using it I have
caught four cab drivers taking me several miles out of the way during a
trip. I have also caught a shuttle bus going #95 miles per our in a #55
zone. The whole GPS experience has been wonderful, and I would like to
thank Mike, Charles and others for developing these systems. Gerry
Leary----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Kozlik" <lisak70@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 5:28 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: telling folks where to go:
> Mary Ellen,
>
> The first day I had GPS I spent half the night looking around my old
> neighborhood using virtual mode. I also looked around my current
> neighborhood. When I first moved into this neighborhood ten years ago, my
> O&M instructor made a detailed Braille map which listed all of the
> businesses in the area at the time. When I compare the Braille map to the
> information provided by BrailleNote GPS, I'm amazed at much things have
> changed!
>
> Lisa
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
> To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 9:14 PM
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] telling folks where to go:
>
>
> I actually was stopped by a lady who was looking for one of the little
tiny
> lanes which makes our village such an intriguing place in which to live.
> The poor woman was nearly in tears because she had cruised up and down the
> entire village looking at all the side streets of course, to no avail. I
> told her exactly where the street was and as she pulled away I heard the
> child in the car with her saying, "Hay mom, did you see that lady's guide
> dog? It was sure curly!"
> I laughed to myself and went my merry way until running into a friend, to
> whom I related my experience. He had been a teacher of mine in elementary
> school and he simply said, "Well, you know where every street in this
> village is."
> Oh I had fun the other day. I called up an address where I spent 20 years
of
> my life from early teens until my parents moved into a retirement home. I
> had the gps find me a route to a nearby restaurant which had been the
corner
> drug store when I lived there and I could still walk that route in my
sleep
> but it was tremendous fun seeing the gps's take on things.
> Mary Ellen Earls
>
>
>
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