[Second Amendment First]

I am also a fan of Olathe based Garmin. I have an etrex Vista handheld for hiking that is about ten years old and used extensively. I had to purchase the Mapsource data disks separately. The computer interface connected to a serial port, and I had to find a guy who made an adapter for serial/USB cable. When traveling I had it on the dash so I could grab it when needed, although the B&W 2” x 1.25” screen was hard to see. Never had a problem with it.

Got the wife a vehicle unit about five years ago, and it too has been perfect in operation. Recently got one for son-in-law and he loves it. Time to get an upgrade for the wife now. They keep getting better.

Garmin in the only brand I’ll consider.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Mine was serial port too, got a Chinese adapter cable on Ebay that works fine.

I use USAPHOTOMAPS a lot to plan trips, I can spot likely photo sites on it and dump them in to the Garmin.

The GPS72 also computes tides, really important for sea and shore bird photography.

Google Earth is great but for what I do USAPHOTOMAPS is perfect.