Arizona Dreamin
'Cause it's not California Dreamin, you see ...
Anyway, I got to my parents' house about 9:30 Pacific, 10:30 local time last night. Looks like the garmin gives times in whatever time zone it's set to. Makes sense.
This phone post from about 4PM Pacific on Saturday got posted private instead of public when the signal dropped as I was pushing the button to publish it, so you might want to go listen to it. I think it mostly just says that I stopped for gas in Ashland, and I had crossed the OR/CA border and I should go because visibility dropped significantly. Hence the later call saying more about visibility.
I found the last CD fo the I Am Legend audio book while digging through my bag of snacks last night, so I was able to finish the book after all. Pretty good book, even if it was the abridged version.
The garmin lead me the wrong way to the wrong house in the right neighborhood last night. I think I was tired enough not to care, really. Plus I didn't remember the street name or spot the landmarks in the dark for the shorter path.
In my car I have two cigarette lighter ports. On my trip I had three devices that would regularly need to be plugged in: the FM transmitter, the XM Radio, and the Garmin Nuvi. Only the garmin could continue to function when not plugged in, so while it was charging I was listening to CDs or my MP3 player plugged in to the FM transmitter.
I like the idea of the FM transmitter, I just wish it worked better. Sometimes I'll drive past someone else using a similar device on the same frequency and we'll both get static for the time it takes one of us to pass the other. That's rare enough at the moment to be a non-issue. More annoying is trying to use it in a dense urban area, where there are a lot of radio stations. My transmitter has a range of eight frequencies between 88.1 and 89.5 (inclusive) and I find myself retuning when going through larger cities. 88.1-88.5 works well enough in the Portland area, 89.3 and 89.5 work better in Seattle, and 88.7 works well though Olympia. (I think, it's been a while since I've paid that much attention, or even done the Portland-Seattle drive). The instructions for the device warn you not to retune it while driving, which is almost certainly a CYA line, and they don't expect people to not do it while driving, since it's as simple as pusing a single button. The thing only has the one button that just steps through the frequencies. It's also developed a short in the right channel such that if the wire isn't bent in just the right way where it plugs in to your audio device, you have no right channel audio. Mildly annoying.
I think I'm done ranting. The point I'm getting at is that I'd like my next car to have a aux input on the stereo, and to have it be easily accessible. I don't really care if it's stereo rca input, or 1/8" stereo line input. I can buy cables for either cheaply enough.
Anyway, I got to my parents' house about 9:30 Pacific, 10:30 local time last night. Looks like the garmin gives times in whatever time zone it's set to. Makes sense.
This phone post from about 4PM Pacific on Saturday got posted private instead of public when the signal dropped as I was pushing the button to publish it, so you might want to go listen to it. I think it mostly just says that I stopped for gas in Ashland, and I had crossed the OR/CA border and I should go because visibility dropped significantly. Hence the later call saying more about visibility.
I found the last CD fo the I Am Legend audio book while digging through my bag of snacks last night, so I was able to finish the book after all. Pretty good book, even if it was the abridged version.
The garmin lead me the wrong way to the wrong house in the right neighborhood last night. I think I was tired enough not to care, really. Plus I didn't remember the street name or spot the landmarks in the dark for the shorter path.
In my car I have two cigarette lighter ports. On my trip I had three devices that would regularly need to be plugged in: the FM transmitter, the XM Radio, and the Garmin Nuvi. Only the garmin could continue to function when not plugged in, so while it was charging I was listening to CDs or my MP3 player plugged in to the FM transmitter.
I like the idea of the FM transmitter, I just wish it worked better. Sometimes I'll drive past someone else using a similar device on the same frequency and we'll both get static for the time it takes one of us to pass the other. That's rare enough at the moment to be a non-issue. More annoying is trying to use it in a dense urban area, where there are a lot of radio stations. My transmitter has a range of eight frequencies between 88.1 and 89.5 (inclusive) and I find myself retuning when going through larger cities. 88.1-88.5 works well enough in the Portland area, 89.3 and 89.5 work better in Seattle, and 88.7 works well though Olympia. (I think, it's been a while since I've paid that much attention, or even done the Portland-Seattle drive). The instructions for the device warn you not to retune it while driving, which is almost certainly a CYA line, and they don't expect people to not do it while driving, since it's as simple as pusing a single button. The thing only has the one button that just steps through the frequencies. It's also developed a short in the right channel such that if the wire isn't bent in just the right way where it plugs in to your audio device, you have no right channel audio. Mildly annoying.
I think I'm done ranting. The point I'm getting at is that I'd like my next car to have a aux input on the stereo, and to have it be easily accessible. I don't really care if it's stereo rca input, or 1/8" stereo line input. I can buy cables for either cheaply enough.