Patrick has done a lot of traveling and swears by his Sharper Image Noise-Cancellation Headphones. So I thought I needed a pair as well for our trip to London. But I didn’t want to pay the $150 he paid. I found these Creative Noise-Cancelling Headphones for $59.99 from Buy.com and was satisfied. I could still hear the lull of the jet in the background, but I could not hear anyone talking. I was nervous of the commotion with all the lil rascals and babies on board, but “no worries”, I was able to watch 4 movies and sleep in peace. I definitely got my money’s worth with these.
I bought a Magellan GPS Navigation System this past summer to use while driving to see Patrick in Colorado. I’d been there several times, but always by air, not land. The night before the trip, my daughter and I “tested” it out. We put in my father’s address across town and deliberately turned the wrong ways to see what happened. After “re-calculating” our trip many times, we arrived at our “destination to the right”. But it was not my dad’s house! Turns out I put in the wrong address! We arrived at the wrong address correctly.
I don’t suggest using the “shortest” route as you’ll take a lot of country roads. The “fastest” route is the way to go. The only annoyance was every time we turned off the interstate for gas or a restroom break, we got off track and had to listen to “please make a legal U-turn at the next intersection” over and over. Nothing the “mute” button couldn’t cure.
We haven’t used the GPS much since our Colorado trip, since we don’t go into unfamiliar territory very often. But we’ve used it several times to look up phone numbers and addresses of various restaurants. A good investment if I must say so myself.
Consumer Reports Magazine (10/07 issue) rates the Magellan Roadmate 2000 a “CR Best Buy” stating it ”… costs only $250 yet includes a database of maps of the lower 48 states and an internal battery, reducing the need to use the power cord.” Well, it’s even a better deal now, cuz we found it on sale for only $199.95 from TigerGPS.com!
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Kim bought this for me for our trip to London as I was looking for a cheap MP3 player. This Sandisk Sansa 512MB MP3 player did the trick, especially for the price. The plane had plenty of music to listen to with its on-board entertainment system, but I like listening to “man talk” radio shows, especially Don and Mike. With their free podcasts, I was able to download at least 3 4-hour shows. Easy to do and worked like a charm.
This player from Sandisk is great for the price and works well for a new MP3 user. This is on sale for only $14.99 (plus Free Shipping) at Buy.com!
