Droid. Does anybody have one?

[MomOnBike]

Oh, I'm not necessarily blaming the Garmin. I suspect the problem is that DH does not do preventive maintenance, so the Garmin runs out of battery in the middle of rides. Still, 12 hours is kind of pushing it for the drives we take to see relatives - more so now that I'm under orders to take frequent breaks.

I'm pretty proud of my navigational abilities. That's one thing my dad did right. He'd saddle up a couple of horses, take me to the top of a mountain, and then it was my job to get us home. We often took the "scenic route," but I always got us back. It was good practice.

So yeah, I want a phone that will work in areas with spotty reception, and help finding what I need in strange towns. I'm looking hard at a Droid.

[OakLeaf]

12 hours is kind of pushing it for the drives we take to see relatives

Office supply stores and electronics stores carry adapters so you can plug a USB charging cable into a cigarette lighter slot.

Oh, and on our ride yesterday in darkest Fairfield County, Ohio (and not the suburban end of the county), we rode by a SUV with signs on the doors saying "Motorola" "Mobile Phone Testing in Progress." Now, I resisted the temptation to shake him down for his Droid, so I don't know which phones they were testing, but it was interesting to see it being done by the manufacturer, not the service provider.


OT: I wonder if directional sense isn't more innate. I actually attribute my poor directional sense to childhood experience. When I don't know where I am, my first instinct is to panic like a five-year-old trying to protect her two-year-old sister , and that's definitely no help as an adult. Even when I don't panic, I'm not good at parsing out the "big picture" around me. In my favor, I'm really good at reading maps...