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05-05-15, 12:09 PM
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Also, off-line maps ftw. I love not having to wait for a map to download.
05-05-15, 12:22 PM
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05-05-15, 12:26 PM
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05-05-15, 12:31 PM
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05-05-15, 12:45 PM
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One of the sillier things I've seen attempted on a bike. The guy is in Philly. I would not try this especially with the cat we're currently sitting.
05-05-15, 01:03 PM
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Of course. Here Maps/Drive can do all of that and it's free... At least on WP. Traffic routing, best commute route and all that jazz, too. Oh, did you think that I was talking about paper maps? The horror.
05-05-15, 01:06 PM
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We always used to keep a current edition of the Rand McNally in the map pocket. I think it's been 10 years since we bought a new edition.
05-05-15, 01:07 PM
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And we don't keep one in the map pocket anymore.
05-05-15, 01:12 PM
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Typically just OR and WA, but sometimes others if a special trip was being made.
05-05-15, 01:13 PM
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05-05-15, 01:15 PM
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I use Maps.me for offline maps on my phone. Seems to work pretty well but I haven't tried many others.
05-05-15, 01:20 PM
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??? People are strange. My 12:15 appointment is a little dog with neck pain. The people show up an hour early, thus they have been waiting in the lobby for an hour. After one hour, they ask a receptionist if someone can check their dog out to see if its still alive. Yikes, now we are worried, brain disease can be life threatening and sometimes neck pain can be part of that picture. Did we somehow mistake the urgency of this appointment?
One of my nurses rushes up and gets the dog and brings it to the back where its breathing and blinking and its heart is beating and its walking around with a stiff neck. No idea what made the people think the dog was possibly dead. Its not. Carry on.
One of my nurses rushes up and gets the dog and brings it to the back where its breathing and blinking and its heart is beating and its walking around with a stiff neck. No idea what made the people think the dog was possibly dead. Its not. Carry on.
05-05-15, 01:25 PM
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I suppose that when I go camping again, I'll have to get a paper map... unless I plan on carrying around a solar panel... which, now that I mention it, might not be a terrible thing...
05-05-15, 01:26 PM
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On second though - nah. I camp to get away. I don't need to watch episode of Game of Thrones while I'm out in the middle of a beautiful nowhere.
05-05-15, 01:33 PM
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FWIW, I miss the old card catalogs at the library for the serendipity that would often occur. You'd be looking for books to help you research say "Lewis & Clark" one minute and the next card would send you down a rabbithole in a completely different direction.
05-05-15, 01:34 PM
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I have a little one. Takes pretty much all day to charge up the external battery that's good to charge up my S4 battery about 1.33 times. I wanna get one that covers my trunk bag, or maybe just get out the soldering iron and wire a second small one up to this one.
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05-05-15, 01:36 PM
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05-05-15, 01:39 PM
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You planning on parking the car and hiking into the camp site? We just charged the phones in the van.
05-05-15, 01:48 PM
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Boundary Waters, yo - park the car, carry your canoe on your back for an hour, paddle for 4 hours, carry your canoe over your head for another hour to get to a different lake/river, paddle another hour and then set up camp. So, no, no charging in the vehicle.
05-05-15, 01:53 PM
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I have a little one. Takes pretty much all day to charge up the external battery that's good to charge up my S4 battery about 1.33 times. I wanna get one that covers my trunk bag, or maybe just get out the soldering iron and wire a second small one up to this one.
05-05-15, 02:01 PM
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In the past, we did, simply because they weren't good for *anything* - no signal and this was the pre-smartphone era. I wouldn't carry a tablet, but if there's any signal there now, though, I'd carry a powered-off phone for emergency use. **** happens. There's bear, moose, wolves, lots of rocks and roots to slip on. One year we were hit by a pretty bad storm - someone elsewhere in the park was killed, presumably by a fallen tree/branch.
05-05-15, 02:03 PM
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I wouldn't be modifying the panels, though, just rigging up a parallel USB wiring harness.
05-05-15, 02:30 PM
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It's not like Texas has cornered the market on nuttiness.
What I worry about missing most when facing withdrawal is the big stuff (earthquakes, riots, etc.), not the normal noise.
Why?
Why?