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I haven't looked up the specs on 76 and 78 yet, but I told him I don't use the marine aspect of my 276, and he was suggesting those for off road use to go along with a Nuvi for on road use. Does that two machine - instead of one Montana - idea make sense to you? Maybe I only got a fast...

I saw an Orgeon at the REI today. Screen was on but the thing was bolted down and it was the model with no detailed maps on it, but the screen looked nice and bright. It is a lot bulkier than the Nuvi they had on display. I also called up Garmin to ask how much it would cost to repair the...

No, sorry, the overlords say that you can't have Ron Paul. They'll tell you who you can pretend to choose between, and then they'll run your pretend vote through their preprogrammed Diebold voting machines and tell you who won, in fact they'll tell you who won even before you waddle in to the...

I don't trust Facebook either. "Dragonfly Whisperer". Good name. I'm a moth whisperer.

"Why does the moon look so small in photos?" http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071213064544AA0vwbp Yeah, I've heard that "optical illusion" explanation before, but...

"Doubt that you will find a Montana at Best Buy." Nah, not at the rather small one I went to. I should be by an REI shortly. "The Montana does sound like the best for now, tho I'm still going to hang on to my 276C as long as the creaky buttons hold up" That may be sooner rather than...

Moon, Venus, Marsh by Chase Schiefer, on Flickr _______________ Nice one! But why does the moon appear so big in the sky and so tiny in photographs?

It is wonderful to see how fast the pitch pine forests in the Barrens recovers from fire. A month from today there will be yellow-green sprouts everywhere.

How often do these "controlled burns" turn into disastrous forest fires?

Come on. This is silly. How many long distance elementary school helium balloons are there compared with, say, plastic bags, plastic soda bottles, oil spills, big ships dumping their refuse, cities dumping their refuse, old fishing nets, chemical dumping, Fukushima radiation, future radiation...

I don't really remember where the balloon I found was from, someplace pretty far away, maybe even Virginia too. Hey, is the Pine Barrens like the Sargasso Sea, but a collecting place for lost aerial devices? Nah, I don't think that elementary school helium balloons are a serious environmental...

Yeah, REI will let you take their bikes outside to try them too. I've been an REI member for the longest time. I saw Best Buy selling the Montana by googling it, but maybe it's only online. Yes, 276C has a USB interface. Thanks for the Basecamp link. I'll try it. Is it much better than...

Good to hear that frogs are still singing. I was afraid they were going extinct. I remember camping out one summer night around 1970, by Bamber Lake. It sounded like Jurassic Park. Speaking of fifth graders, once, long ago, hiking in the depths of the Barrens, I found a helium balloon with...

"Pan, I think you're on the verge of over-thinking thi..." You're right, Boyd. I do tend to do that, and I'm not even ready to get one yet. I was just in a REI store. I should have taken a look - but in stores the GPS units aren't turned on so you can see the actual screen in action, are...

Nice side by side comparison, Boyd. I don't understand all the screen jargon. As far as clarity and legibility and ease of viewing is the Montana screen better? The 276 screen was widely acclaimed as the best, and for a while they were saying that nothing could match it. A Garmin tech told...

Comparison of he Montana screen with my 276C screen Montana: 3.5" X 2" 272 X 480 pixels bright, transflective 65k color TFT, dual-orientation touchscreen; sunlight readable 276C: 3" X 2.2" 320 X 480 pixels 256-color TFT https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=233...

Boyd - I saw you post this on gpspassion.com: "These days I don't use any of my Nuvi's, I am very happy with my Montana on foot as well as in the car. Now if Garmin put the Montana software on 5" panel for vehicle use, that's something I could get excited about." That sounds like what I want...

My old 276C doesn't say street names but it does give verbal turning instructions plus the visual. I use both. My big complaint with the verbal instructions is that it drawls them so slowly, like "turn...right...in...200...feet". On crowded fast moving roads you need that info quick. Need...

I hear ya on that. Good thing they got rid of those nasty things. There are plenty of other drawbacks with it too compared to the newer units - much harder to get in and out of the vehicle, complicated, doesn't say street names, backlight usually must be on (the older black and white 176 was...

Thanks for the good info , Boyd. That's an excellent discussion forum link. " Reports are that the 5" screen on the 3500 series is beautiful" Last night I was reading on some other forum people complaining that the 5" screen is bigger but blurrier, having the same number of pixels or...