Hi, all, Last night, I had a ride home from Symphony Hall. Since the person picking me up had trouble finding the place, I switched on the GPS, figuring he'd never find his way to my house. I did this while I was waiting for him to arrive, so the gPS had plenty of time to fire up. And, BTW, that was my question about Mike's story...how did you get the GPS up and running fast enough to be able to potentially tell that driver anything? I know the area around Symphony Hall very well. We had to make a U-turn or go around the block to be heading in the right direction. What the GPS told us to do was make a U, but that U-turn had about 11 steps to it...turn left on Gainsborough, turn left on ramp to Gainsborough, proceed ahead on Gainsborough, turn left onto unnamed to US 9, turn left onto ramp for US 9, proceed ahead on ramp to US 9, turn onto US 9, etc, etc. Since I knew what all this meant, I could tell him, make a U-turn. But if I had been in an unfamiliar area, I, and I presume the driver, would have been hopelessly confused. The same thing happened during the transition from Route 1 to Route 16. He actually had a GPS, the usual Garmon or Tom-tom, and all his thing said was turn right, 200 yards or whatever. I realize he can see the map, but still, isn't the direction of "turn onto 16 East" sufficient without all the in-between steps of ramps, turn onto ramp, proceed ahead on ramp, turn off of ramp, etc.? OK. We kept going, and the next direction was to turn left onto Berkeley. Well, he got off of Huntington Ave., but that was OK, because you can still turn left onto Berkeley. However, he missed that turn. (Anybody thinking I should have taken the subway yet? ha ha) Again, his GPS just said, turn blah blah. Mine started "recalculating route, swish, swish, swish." It did this numerous times. So what are you supposed to do while we're swishing? The driver can't sit still and wait for it to recalculate. And now, a quick question...what is the command on a PK to return to the next turn in "real time" if you've looked ahead to see what the next few turns are? In other words, to bring you back to where you are in reality along the route? And, if the look-around announces something, how do you get rid of that announcement to repeat what the last direction was? Thanks so much for help. Alice, who is bound and determined to learn to use the Sendero gps well, but who is still struggling... alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx