A funny thing happened to me on the way to Wales ......
We have just returned from some very nice off roading with our local club in Wales. Heading there though I discovered I had forgotten the the instructions to get there, but thought we would be OK as I had them on the laptop, which we were testing out with the GPS.
What we didn't count on was the auxillary battery packing out, which the inverter was wired into. So, just as we realised we only had 15% battery, we realised that we couldn't charge it without a major headache!! This left an interesting last two hours of navigation and battery conservation! We made it, but it certainly taught us a lesson to on how an over realiance on one technology can leave you exposed.
Anyway, this and our experiment with the laptop has left us favoring navigating with our Garmin V, with laptop as backup. A most probably a paper store of maps too.
Thanks for all the advice, I still reserve the right to change my mind several times before the big trip though
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