I actually went for a short walk on Thursday, the first outing since October, so I thought I would bore you all with a trip report. Then I thought why bother? No one ever comments on my reports these days so I thought I would whinge about my current in-car Sat Nav instead and then pose a question.
Now the whinge. I usually set the Sat Nav these days just in case I get lost ignoring its time consuming short cuts. Thursday's destination was the minor road between Fountains Fell and Pen-y-Ghent and and predictably the Sat Nav tried to lead me off the A65 even before I entered Gargrave. The A65 had a set of temporary traffic lights before the Settle turnoff which must have cost me at least a couple of minutes and rush hour traffic prevented any overtaking but even so I arrived at my destination just 5 minutes after the pre Gargrave ETA.
On the way back with plenty of time to spare I thought I might as well see how stupid the programmers at Garmin had been and followed the Sat Nav directions. Apart from the 9 minutes the ETA receded before I finally reached the A65 again I was also treated to 2 junctions where there were no verbal directions and the sun made viewing the screen impossible. Now the first of those junctions was at an acute angle to a major road (almost an oxymoron when applied to a minor country lane) and the way on seemed obvious but the second was the opposite way round and I followed the major road while the Sat Nav had expected me to go straight on onto an even more minor road rather than bearing left.
And now the question - are there any in-car unitsother than the highly unsatisfactory Garmins that take grid references or some other easy way of specifying a destination in the middle of nowhere? I am absolutely fed up with having to second guess my current nuvi every time it directs me down a single track road.