Tag: Navigating
How do you force Google Maps to go the way you want?
Google Maps is navigating and telling you to go one way but you want to go a different way. What do you do?
For one...
Husband’s forgetfulness causing navigation issues
Dear RV Shrink:
My husband likes to be in charge of navigation. He controls the GPS, reads the maps, plots our course, and likes to...
Already nervous RV driver led astray by expensive GPS
Dear RV Shrink:
My wife bought me a new GPS for my birthday. It's an expensive, big rig model. It is supposed to have all...
Trip planning with fun in mind – use Roadtrippers
Over the years of traveling by RV, we've evolved. From wandering, to sightseeing, to working on the road. This summer, my husband and I...
Reader letter – First RV trip a disaster!
By Gary Hammond
Last summer was our first time to “camp” in an RV. For 15 years, we had only been in tent trailers. We began...
Street View will show you exactly where you’re going
By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com
Have you ever entered a destination in your Google Maps, and when you got there it wasn't what you thought? How...
Allstays Camp & RV – the Best App – is Not on Google Play...
by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com
If you've attended any of Geeks on Tour's seminars at RV rallies, you know that our favorite app for RVers is...
Google Maps can find your next rest stop
There are lots of apps that can tell you where the rest stops are, but they don’t know where you’re going. It can be...
Travel planning with one app? Not possible
by Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com
We spend the majority of our life traveling, mostly by RV. I’m starting my plan for 2018 now, yet I’m still...
Rand McNally introduces three new RV dashboard devices
SKOKIE, Ill., Aug. 8, 2017 – Six years after launching the first navigation unit designed specifically for RVers – and pioneering that category –...
Don’t get stuck — Have a ‘Plan B’ when boondocking
By Bob Difley
If you are reading this you might be either (A) a boondocker, or (B) thinking of becoming a boondocker. The very fact...
One click on a photo can take you to the map
This is where we had dinner last night. Why? Because our motorhome broke down while traveling I-40 thru Arizona and we had to be...