ride mapping- food and water?

[OakLeaf]

I've got mine in my hand right now because I've never actually used that feature.

It appears to work just like it does on the car GPS. I selected "Gas Station" and it gives me a list of 50 gas stations in order of proximity, and it also says what direction (as the crow flies) each one is from my current location.

Select one and it gives the address and the option to save the location, show it on a map or navigate to it. If I show it on the map, clicking the Mode button takes me back to the window where I can choose to navigate to it. Don't have to choose a city at all.



It's funny you say about rural areas. My experience is that around home, where there might be one or two gas stations in an area that has very little environmental monitoring or regulation, they're likely to stay open. People need to buy gas because they live there and it's 10-20 miles to the next gas station (or any other place to buy beer and chips), and there's no one making the station replace their 30-year-old tanks.

Where we've had the most experiences of gas stations not being where the GPS said they were is in New Jersey within a 20-mile radius of New York City. Happened several times in congested south Florida, too.


I do always make sure I have at least $2 in singles or coins in my jersey pocket in case I get to somewhere that the store is closed but there's a pop machine outside. Sometimes it's more than $1 nowadays.

A couple of weeks ago I swiped water from a hose outside a church. I paid for that sin though because the water tasted AWFUL (and yes I did let it run long enough to clear the hose).