You already have your Garmin Nuvi GPS and you are planning on a vacation. This is the time to explore the many features of Garmin and enjoy a navigation and sight-seeing experience that you planned for.
If you are interested in going to a motel and pass by a famous intersection, you can do the following sequence of choices in your Garmin Nuvi GPS. Tap on “Where To?”, then “Intersections”, and “Spell State”. At this point, type the first letter of the city and tap on the right choice. Then tap on “Spell City” and enter the name of the city, and the particular intersections. Tap on “Show Map” when the Go screen appears and tap “Set Loc”. Final step is tap on “Save”, then to “Favorites” and tap “OK”. This will make sure that you will walk to the point of interest that you have entered as you are on your way to the motel. This is very simple and will easily direct your way to the specified place before reaching your motel.
To fully utilize your Garmin Nuvi GPS while you travel, you should plan your trip. This way you can specify the places that you want to go beforehand and have them reflected in your Garmin. This is something like giving instructions to a digital travel assistant so it would know where to lead you to as you go on your much-anticipated vacation trip.
Take advantage of the “Favorites” feature of your Garmin Nuvi GPS. It establishes places that you want to visit and in a few taps on the screen, you will be able to see the distances of these favorite places relative to your current location. This means that you have to do a research on the tourist areas near your destination and specify all of these locations in your “Favorites”. This is an easy way to find where you would want to go. With specific favorite places pre-defined, it will be easy to just look at the listing and decide your next step.
Sometimes you need to walk instead of drive within a certain tourist area. To still maximize your Garmin Nuvi GPS, you have to put it into pedestrian mode. Thus, as you walk you are still guided by your GPS unit and you will never have to ask people about directions, which is sometimes time-consuming and worse, unreliable that you will end up getting tired going places, not enjoying your vacation. With your GPS, this experience is totally eliminated.
There are other features that you can explore with your Garmin Nuvi GPS device. Give yourself some time exploring it as you relax in your hotel and you will see that you can insert waypoints into your routes. This will allow you not to miss popular places. With your Gamin nuvi, you will be able to make the most out of your travel. With your family with you, it will absolutely be a memorable trip and vacation with lots of memories to make and share.