Tony

So a flight into Knoxville would be good with an evening arival?
what time you heading out friday AM?

AO

I'd take that 5552 or 5434 flight. I'm going to try and leave Detroit around 9AM. That should put us into Knoxville between 5 or 6 depending on stops, traffic, break downs, .

Left you a VM. Call me anytime tonight.

blown 87

Are you folks that are meeting in Alcoa going to be taking to full BRP route to Banner Elk?

I would like to know your route as I may leave a day early to drive that with you bunch of yankees.

AO

Here's the route I've got planned. A wicked fun route! I've taken time to hopefully find addresses that you pop into your GPS. Alternatively, you can pull the route up on this Google Maps - http://tinyurl.com/24nnsg8

blown 87

I have been trying for days to post a link from MapSource.
Getting closer.

This one goes from Alcoa to Cades Cove road in the park, then to Little River road, then to the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The little River road is one of the best roads i have ever driven, better than any in the Rockies, IIRC this is the road that had the corner sign that looked like a 0.

AO

BRP is way too tame IMO. What that road on your first map just below the Smoky Mountain National Forest that ends up near Hazelwood? That looks fun. My route would take us right near that.

blown 87

US 441, great road, I have driven it in the corvette.

EDIT: US 441 turns into US 19.

auzivision

New Garmin GPS in route via UPS courteous of my company for 15 years of my life.

Andrew, do you know if there is a way to download the way points via usb cable.

I'd like to get this preprogrammed incase I can't keep up.

blown 87

If you have Garmin Mapsource you can load any route into most Garmin GPS's, you can e-mail the route file to another pesron, it is a *.GDB file.

If I make Alcoa I will have my laptop with routes on it so you can load to your Garmin if you do not have MapSource.

Per my conversation with Garmin yesterday there is no way to post pictures on the internet straight off of MapSource

dr bob

Kurt--

Manually adding these places as waypoints won't take long, but you may find that the 255W doesn't hold that many as one trip sequence. You'll probably choose the first point as a single destination, and then select the next place as a destination after you arrive. With all of the point preloaded as 'Favorites' you'll be selecting them from a list rathr than typing them in again on the side of the road. If that MapSource app isn't expensive and you carry a laptop or netbook with you, it might be fun to play with. But not while you are driving...

** Looks like the software is under $25 at places like Office Depot stores.

dr bob

The Google source that AO shared allows me to see that I'm a mere 12.5 rental car driving hrs from the event if I end up where I'm supposed to be. Guess I need to put that BW on speed dial.

AO

What I do for programming on the Garmin is I enter all the addresses into the GPS, name them SITM WPA, SITM WPB, etc, and save them. Then it's just a matter of recalling them. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes to program all those WP in.

The GPS that's integrated into my headunit has route programming and it worked pretty good last year. I plan on doing the same this year.

Dr. Bob. If you could make it, that sure would be cool.

robot808

Here, Here!!!

blown 87

Tick Tock, two weeks way.

If any one wants the *.GDB file of Andrews route to load into a Garmin GPS send me a PM with your e-mail address.

It looks like 298 miles and MapSource is saying seven hours and twenty eight minutes for it, that is a average of almost 40 MPH, gonna be tough to make that on those twisty mountain roads.

Dr Bob, I also hope you can make it.

To my friend Paul, you better get your *** to work or you are not going to make it in your 928.

rixter

your watch is slow, mine says 1 week