[gps-talkusers] Re: telling folks where to go:
- From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 08:17:05 -0700
How have you caught a bus going 95 mph with a trekker?
Can you do that with that machine?
Mary Ellen Earls
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 4:08 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: telling folks where to go:
> 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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