Fred in the US of A - how does your couch look? (and smell?)

[jharvey]

I use it on a Dell AXIM X51V. I like the transflective display. I haven't been able to find that kind of display on a dedicated GPS device. I simply use my wifi when at home to download maps, and plot routes. Then when I'm on the road, even though, I don't have Internet, it uses the local cache, and lets me go.

The thing I sacrifice by not having 3G or on the road Internet is on the fly re-routing and audible alarms. I'm basically happy with it.

[Fred]

Gimpy, perhaps I spoke too soon!

I'm looking at maps and beds and this is what I have :

Los Angeles
San Diego
Pheonix
Salt Lake City
Denver
Gimpy-ville
chicago
New York
atlanta
florida

fly back to LA and then fly home

something like this :

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&do ... 57&t=h&z=5

corrections, additions, suggestions "oh, go see landmark X, its 2 miles out of your way" etc are all welcome :-)

Fred.

[jharvey]

Hey your getting close to bishops castle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDQsy7aiVD0

Also pops right up in maps.google.com. Search for bishops caslte, only had 4 hits, two where right.

[Fred]

ROFL - "I'll call it any fucking thing I want to call it!"

LOL, he's absolutely insane and yet quite sane, the man has a lot of sensible things to say! I wonder if he has read Catch 22?

Highly amusing!

Fred.

[thebigmacd]

Pssha...completely ignoring Canada on the way through?

[Fred]

Hmmmm, maybe, maybe not, there is this old guy in Canada (Calgary) that I really wanna meet, so I may go meet him near the border, really not sure yet. It's a bit continent and I kinda feel like I won't do justice to all of one country let alone 2 or 3. Place your offers though, we will see :-)

For reference, I only need a flat bit of floor and some running water :-)

Fred.

[Fred]

Yep, that's right, I just booked my tickets home through LAX!

Arrive Saturday 22nd of August and leave Thursday 5th November!

Watch out, here I come! :-)

Fred.

[longracing]

Put a post up if you get over to the land of Oz at the end of your trip.
Not sure if I will be in N.S.W. A.C.T. or W.A. at the time but it's worth a try.

I also showed the guys at the Sydney PIC-club the DIY-EFi website lastnight (they are interested in all types of MicroController projects, picclub.factors-online.com http://www.sesame.com.au/pic_club.htm). Hope that it generates a little more interest in the project.

[Fred]

Pssha...completely ignoring Canada on the way through? :P

Where in Canada are you?? Might pop up through Niagra falls area in a week or two, near there? Got up to Calgary and am currently in Colorado with a "famous" MegaSquirter.

so far :

flew into lax
abes turbo miata/mx5 took me to san diego
bought the volvo wagon there
drove back to la, stayed with Joel there
drove up to san fran, stayed with abes flatmates girlfriends friend there
drove back to la, stayed with a mazda truck guy i met in la
drove back to san diego and tried to get a us license, failed due to timing
drove across to phoenix and stayed with SeanK and his lady
drove up and stayed in "cinders" with sean and wired the first freeems into the volvo
drove up to zion park and stayed in the car there stealthily
drove up to salt lake city and stayed with a mazda guy
drove out to bonneville and did a top speed run on the salt with permission from Mike Cook.
met up with a dude with turbo ae86 in slc, then drove up to some little park an hour north
drove up to montana through yellowstone national park and stayed with EssEss for a couple of days
drove up to calgary and stayed with SleepCounter for a night
back down to EssEss again for anothe night
down to walmart Ceyenne 7 miles north of colorado (650 miles for the day was enough...)
down to colorado, went looking for pikes peak, found it too late, will go tomorrow morning
about to go up to estes park in an mx3 with klde swap
gimpy's tomorrow night :-)

Fred.

[BenFenner]

If you'd just head farther South on your way to Atlanta, you could crash on my couch.