I went to the West Coast for a couple of weeks.
First, I wanted to say, it is absolutely amazing at the number of hotels with free wi-fi access for their guests. There was only one place we were that didn’t have free access (Yosemite Valley) but even there it was pay. For one of the hotels we checked rate information on their free wi-fi before we checked in.
I bought Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 for our trip driving down the coast. It works okay, but it’s not as flexible as I would have liked. For instance, if you type PDX in google, you get Portland International Airport as one of the links that pops up. If you type that into MS S&T, for whatever reason you don’t.
Every time you turn on GPS tracking, you get a little annoying disclaimer to which you must agree before you can continue. It’s lost the configuration of the included GPS twice, and yesterday as we were driving to the hotel it didn’t have the right address to our hotel in dowtown Portland. And we didn’t discover that until we got there.
And so I swiftly reached for my cell phone used and sent a text message with the hotel name and a zip code to google SMS, and then I got the correct address, which we plugged into the MS software.
Google, once again, saves the day.
