Fran,

I've got a tom tom and I've been very pleased with it. I even used it in Ireland this past October and that was definitely a godsend- even if I did experience a couple of episodes like Dave's where the road I was on didn't exist in the database- and it was the latest one that I had downloaded just before we left on the trip.

Then again Ireland has been very busy recently making new roads.

I've used it on several trips in the US and Canada specifically lighthouse trips as well and it was very helpful. I used the Lighthouse Friends to determine some lighthouse locations by coordinates but most we determined by addresses utilizing my Delorme Street Atlas program and then programmed into the tomtom gps.

I did seem to lose it's mind a bit at times but it got us where we were going everytime.

Dennis